Duncan C
Veteran Member
Danilo,
I hate to say it, but thats a very slow machine by today's standards. Consider that the fastest machine in the lineup sports a clockspeed FOUR TIMES faster, and on a newer generation of processor which supports much faster throughput. Plus that machine has two processors, not one. You also don't have enough memory, and are very limited in how much you can add to that machine.
Bibble is about 3 times as fast, I'd say. I haven't timed it, but that sounds about right
Raw image processing is EXTREMELY compute-intensive (and disk-intensive.)
I now have a first-generation Ti powerbook (400 mhz G4) and a top-of-the-line dual G4 with high speed fast-and-wide SCSI drives. Bibble is useable on the Ti, but slow. (Still much faster than NC 3.5 or PS with the Nikon plug-in, mind. On my dual 1.25 ghz G4, Bibble 3.0 SMOKES. It's responsive enough that I can experiment with different settings and see the results in a few seconds. Very nice.
I had a 400 mhz G3 powerbook (a Lombardi) and on that machine, the Nikon photoshop plug-in took 5 MINUTES to open a NEF. On my 400 mhz G4 powerbook, NC 3.5 and PS with the Nikon plug-in both take about 30 seconds to process an image. At a guess, I'd say Bibble takes about 10 seconds to open the same image (I haven't timed it yet.) The G4 is a great deal faster at number crunching, even at the same clockspeed.
Duncan C
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I hate to say it, but thats a very slow machine by today's standards. Consider that the fastest machine in the lineup sports a clockspeed FOUR TIMES faster, and on a newer generation of processor which supports much faster throughput. Plus that machine has two processors, not one. You also don't have enough memory, and are very limited in how much you can add to that machine.
Bibble is about 3 times as fast, I'd say. I haven't timed it, but that sounds about right
Raw image processing is EXTREMELY compute-intensive (and disk-intensive.)
I now have a first-generation Ti powerbook (400 mhz G4) and a top-of-the-line dual G4 with high speed fast-and-wide SCSI drives. Bibble is useable on the Ti, but slow. (Still much faster than NC 3.5 or PS with the Nikon plug-in, mind. On my dual 1.25 ghz G4, Bibble 3.0 SMOKES. It's responsive enough that I can experiment with different settings and see the results in a few seconds. Very nice.
I had a 400 mhz G3 powerbook (a Lombardi) and on that machine, the Nikon photoshop plug-in took 5 MINUTES to open a NEF. On my 400 mhz G4 powerbook, NC 3.5 and PS with the Nikon plug-in both take about 30 seconds to process an image. At a guess, I'd say Bibble takes about 10 seconds to open the same image (I haven't timed it yet.) The G4 is a great deal faster at number crunching, even at the same clockspeed.
Duncan C
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I understand the limitations in developing quality software, and I'm not one who feels any sense of entitlement or anger at being left out. BTW, it did open in 9.1....and tried to open an image, but hung up. I'll have to demonstrate that to the wife, so she can see the need for one of the new cheaper G4's.