Speed it aint

[Carey]

Thank you Apple, the newest up date has brought the speed of my 12 core mac down to the speed of a old quad core 486 sx.. I always wanted to go back and live the eighties again....I smell a rat. A big fat rat! if you have not up dated your mac lately, think twice before doing so...

 

[robert952]

Thank you Apple, the newest up date has brought the speed of my 12 core mac down to the speed of a old quad core 486 sx.. I always wanted to go back and live the eighties again....I smell a rat. A big fat rat! if you have not up dated your mac lately, think twice before doing so...

LONG LIVE DOS 7.0!!!! (OK, I did finally migrate to Windows 95. But not until 1997.)

Seems updates and bloat-ware will be the demise of society as we know it.

 

[Miss B]

I beat you to it. I finally switched to Win95 around 1996. My old DOS 5 computer had seen the end of its days.

 

[seachnasaigh]

I wonder if it's their fix for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. I've read of concerns that the Windows fix kills branched path tracing, which would make Superfly rendering slower and less efficient.

That would also cripple any other PBR render engine's branched path raytracing.

 

[Hornet3d]

I wonder if it's their fix for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. I've read of concerns that the Windows fix kills branched path tracing, which would make Superfly rendering slower and less efficient.

That would also cripple any other PBR render engine's branched path raytracing.

Three reasons why I am fighting to keep my present machine running, first I can stay on Windows 7 a little longer and I can also give the industry time to come up with a reliable answer to Spectre and Meltdown. I really don't want to pay out for a new machine only to find that it is no quicker than what I have now. The last thing that is pointing me off is the present high price of graphic cards thanks to mad dash to buy them for cryptocurrency mining.

True it leaves me vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown as it will be some while before the fixes will trickle down to my aging computer, if ever, so my only real option at present is just limit it's access to the network.

 

[Carey]

Well I'm crying, I am going to have to go back to my 8 core AMD PC just because it doesn't''t have an intel chip. Yep might even have to go as far as using winux along with linux. God I feel sorry for people trying to run a business right now...

 

[Carey]

I have found a temporary solution, reduced resolution, it will make editing harder, but it beats rebuilding my poser library.

 

[Carey]

LONG LIVE DOS 7.0!!!! (OK, I did finally migrate to Windows 95. But not until 1997.)

Seems updates and bloat-ware will be the demise of society as we know it.

I don't remember any dos commands...not one

 

[Sunfire]

I remember dir and run

 

[Hornet3d]

I remember dir and run

Now that takes me way back, I remember a could more like del for delete and CD c:/ to change directory yet I couldn't tell you what I did for most of last week, or was it the week before. Ain't memory strange.

 

[Rokket]

Now that takes me way back, I remember a could more like del for delete and CD c:/ to change directory yet I couldn't tell you what I did for most of last week, or was it the week before. Ain't memory strange.

I don't know. I can't remember.

 

[Hornet3d]

I don't know. I can't remember.

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[robert952]

I don't know. I can't remember.

I really do hate senility. I just can't remember why.