Performance update - Awesome.

While that start up from a cold start is much faster (thanks to the SSD drive) the real tell of the tape is the stitching of the mega pano. You might recall I did a 200+ frame pano of the east side of Logan's pass (take w/ a 5dSr). Well on my month old i7 laptop 12 g ram, 4g dedicated to the graphics card, it took 10 ish minutes to load the images, and a casual cup off coffee to align, and then a leisurely lunch to render the 65k x 30k (1.96 gigapixel) image. Well the new box did these tasks in the following time frames - a little under a minute to load all the images (229 of them), and just about 30 seconds to align and then perhaps a full minute to render.

So I am pretty happy with the oomph that this system has. I have yet to optimize the RAM drive(probably won't at this point), etc, etc. this is pretty much straight out of the box.

With gigapixel results a few a minute or two away vs. hours, I a getting stoked to go do some more of this type of work. I am still working on the real graphics monitor. The only draw back now is that it makes the uber images of a 5DsR and one of the uber sharp tele's more available from a through put perspective may trigger a relapse of GAS. No new cool thing is ever the end - it is always a new beginning