How fast is fast enough?? (iMac or MacPro)

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:22 am

monkey man wrote:Yay! Fwoggy's gone octa millenium on us.

Well done, mate.

twistedtom · Post by **twistedtom** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:24 am

Frodo wrote:[
The other fw caveat-- if you have a 400 device and an 800 device connected, the transfer rate will be 400. The bus is only as fast as the slowest device connected to it. That is, unless Apple has changed something with this, meaning dual point-to-point running on a single bus where 800 stays 800 while a 400 device is concurrently working at optimum.

It would be the boss to have it both ways but I fear it is not such, I will look in to it. This fall after contract I will be wanting to get a new Pro.
It would be cool if USB was not slowed down by the slowest device as well.
I run a 2nd USB card for USB2.

Resonant Alien · Post by **Resonant Alien** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:26 pm

twistedtom wrote:
Frodo wrote:[
The other fw caveat-- if you have a 400 device and an 800 device connected, the transfer rate will be 400. The bus is only as fast as the slowest device connected to it. That is, unless Apple has changed something with this, meaning dual point-to-point running on a single bus where 800 stays 800 while a 400 device is concurrently working at optimum.
It would be the boss to have it both ways but I fear it is not such, I will look in to it. This fall after contract I will be wanting to get a new Pro.
It would be cool if USB was not slowed down by the slowest device as well.
I run a 2nd USB card for USB2.

Yeah, would be cool if not true, but I feel Frodo is probably right on that one - at least historically that is the way it has been, but of course you never know what Apple has done........now that the bus has been pushed much faster, maybe the recommendation that Focusrite gives about LM needing its own bus would not be needed on these machines.

Thanks for the info here. I think I have had a nice little detour through iMac World, but I think I am coming back full circle to the conclusion that I will have to bite the bullet and get a MacPro and replace my UADs....

The silver lining in this cloud though is that I can clean up on some UA plugin vouchers.....If I by two PCIe Express Paks to replace my PCIs, I will spend $1k, but I will get $700 in plugin vouchers......not a bad deal.........OR even more insane (I can't believe this is true), I could buy 2 PCIe Expert Paks for $1500 and get $2k in plugin vouchers!!! That's nuts

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:57 am

Frodo wrote:
monkey man wrote:Yay! Fwoggy's gone octa millenium on us.

Well done, mate.

Sorry, that should've been "octa millenial".

There, now we're both embarrassed.