With Video.
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Say wha?
I generally just watch one video at a time...on my old PC.
OK a Mac can stream six videos at once. This particular power and ability ....What practical tasks can it do better?
I would download a lot of movie trailers from Apple. In those days, they were standard definition. But movie trailers are unique in that they have fast moving action, quickly changing scenes, explosions, pretty women, and so on. I would load up six or seven of these trailers in QuickTime, lay them out on a 23-inch display in a grid, and set them all running in an endless loop... When I was using a dual processor 800 MHz Mac Pro G4, the best I could do was about seven or maybe eight simultaneous trailers... with a Mac Pro, Nehalem (March 2009), quad core, with 3GB of RAM, standard video card (NVIDIA GT120) and two displays attached... there are 21 standard definition videos running at the same time. Why not high-def? I wanted to retain a baseline to compare against what the Mac Pro G4 was doing in 2003. Note that none of the trailers are stuttering... I have the Activity Monitor app running. None of the eight virtual cores* appears to be working very hard. I'll propose that if I had many more screens attached, I could have run 50 or more of these QuickTime trailers.Heh... I guess this is one definition of "multimedia". ;') Thanks Swordmaker. I remember the first time I saw that rotating stalking tiger demo thing on an Amiga. Can't quite figure out what computer store I was in, the store itself is probably a Subway or Starbucks now.