BaseCamp 3.0.1 Performance Which Intel Mac?

Former Member over 15 years ago

Well I am sorta jealous. I can't take a look at the 3.0.1 Basecamp since I am still using my G4 1.67 Powerbook. Apple announced the Intel processor change 2 weeks after I ordered this computer :(

So I guess I need to start considering an Intel mac.

You guys who are using this new BaseCamp.

Does it perform reasonably OK on a 2.5 Ghz Core duo Mac?

I've done a little watching on fleabay and it seems I might be able to pick up one of those for not so bad a price. I certainly can't justify one of the latest models right now.

Both BaseCamp and RoadTrip are pretty slow on this PPC, although BaseCamp is much better. Just trying to get a feel for what I would need to make that change and be sorta satisfied.

The plus side is I could get good performance with an emulator and MapSource 6.13.7 if I had an Intel Mac.

Opinions please?

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

How does your CPU effect BaseCamp speed?

When BaseCamp renders the map we tell each processor to build a map tile, and once a tile is complete that processor begins work on the next tile. This means more processors will yield faster tile generation. For instance, an 8 core machine will build 4 times as many tiles as a dual core roughly the same amount of time.

Very nice to know that BC will benefit from more cores. Now I can tell my wife that you said I need to have a i7. ;)

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

The faster the HD, the faster we can read map tiles. SSD would be the best, but if that is too pricey then just get the fastest HD you can.

Thanks for this clarification!

I forgot to mention that I DO already run from an SSD Drive (Supertalent Ultradrive GX 128G) on the Macbook Pro. It does not seem to make a noticeable difference from the 320G 7,2kRPM Hard Disk in the mini concerning BaseCamp. The MBP is a 3.1 Model with 1,5GBit Sata and an GF 8600 256M Graphics Card. The Bottleneck seems to be the CPU almost exclusively.

Am I going to see a big speedup with the "standard" C2D 3GHz iMac? Or with the i5? 3GHz + 1 CPU Generation does not look like a big difference. Performance with City Navigator is o.k. but I mostly resort to using the OSM Cycle map which is much more detailed (at least where I live) and in contrast to the Topo Map it can be used for routing. Since many ways I use with the road bike are not on CN I am pretty much forced to use OSM.

0 SwissMountainLeader over 15 years ago

I have :

MacBook Pro, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.33 GHz, 3GB RAM
Seagate Momentus 7200.4 SATA 3Gb/s 16MB cache

And it's fine, it always has been, the older release or the new one and on the original Apple shipped 5400rpm disk.

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

I'm going to give you guys a little insight into how BaseCamp utilizes your computer's resources since I don't think we've ever clarified how some of these things work.

I think this kind of Information is AWESOME!!!

I wish there were more of this kind of thing available about the GPS units.