Re: XP / Geovision / Intel-Mac

[Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Gale wrote:
> But the overhead for this kind of system is normally HUGE. I wouldn't
think performance of two very CPU intensive applications like Geovision and
an edit app would be particularly good - unless you had a quad 10GHz CPU!
;) If you've ever tried running the Microsoft virtual PC and a hefty app
(even on a fast machine), you'd know what I mean!
>

Virtual PC is emulation though - the Intel code has to be translated to
PowerPC code on the fly, which steals a lot of CPU cycles.

Virtualisation allows for two disparate sets of code to share one
machine with very little overhead.

> I run a video production company and we run several PC based edit
machines - it's one of the most demanding applications out there. Even
basic edit progs require a fair bit of grunt with the amount of data DV
involves.
>

Agreed. It may be possible to run something in parallel with video
editing, but it's not sensible. Doubly so if the something is an entire
other OS :-)

Jim