I Need A Mac Pro

I often read or hear people asking why do we need faster and faster processors and machines when most people only ever need enough to support Wordprocessing.

Well my Dual Processor G5 is currently maxed out as I'm:

• Using FCP to encode this weeks ScreenCastsOnline show in H264


• Creating a Rapidweaver entry to post to the ScreenCastsOnline site


• Uploading both the ED and Free versions of the show to Libsyn using Cyberduck


• Archiving a 35GB iDVD project from my MacBook Pro to the firewire array hanging off the G5

Now don't get me wrong, the machine is coping (I'd hate to do this on Windows) and all is progressing but it's all a bit laboured.

I wonder how a Mac Pro would cope :-)

Comments

[sokar]

From what I was hearing on a Pod cast the ohter day, at lot of program aren't yet desinged to handle 4 processors...

Though It'll be handy for when they are...

If you have any spare cash can you get one for me...

Just kidding

[Peter]

A nice excuse for getting one! :P

If you do get one, you'd have enough machines to use Xgrid to encode the shows.