SuperHyperMegaTurbo

Hmmm... that video Prysin posted seems like a good comparison... but it also makes me suspicious. I won't claim to really know any of the details going into how these things work, but... Final Cut Pro being 10x better rendering speed than Adobe Premiere Pro on the same Mac computer, and 5x better on the Mac than Adobe Premiere Pro on the opposing laptop with more powerful hardware, and still like 3x better than the beefy workstation with Adobe Premiere Pro... I wouldn't think that all that improvement can just be hardware acceleration and software optimization. I'm inclined to think that one of the many little checkbox options that can compound render complexity happened to be checked on the Adobe side, making the process that much more intensive. I'm not trying to say that Final Cut Pro isn't better, but this comparison seems extremely skewed for doing the supposed exact same operation, even across more powerful hardware. Is Final Cut Pro really supposedly better in its native environment by such a huge factor? That high-frame-density preview rendering in Final Cut Pro does look really good, though, I have to say.

I should have tried that before turning it off... won't help now, unfortunately, since it doesn't seem to boot properly now.

So, my HP Pavilion dv6 laptop stopped working last night. I was doing some writing, and mid-sentence, my keyboard stopped doing anything. The trackpad had stopped working as well. I don't think it was a total lock-up, since the cursor in my word processor was still flashing... If I remember correctly, I could also plug in a flash drive and see a notification pop up... but otherwise, I couldn't do anything. I turned it off with the power button (which is an instant power down, I've done this many times before without breaking anything) and tried restarting... but the screen shows nothing. The power light and keyboard lights come on, and the CPU fan is going, but otherwise nothing seems to be happening. I figured this could be my solid-state drive failing, so I swapped it out with my old hard drive, but that yielded nothing. Next, I tried taking out one of the two RAM modules (2 GB each, hopefully one is enough for boot... if not actually starting Windows 7) in case one of them had failed, but no combination of one or the other in either slot changed anything. At this point, I'm thinking my AMD Phenom II 2.8 GHZ dual-core processor probably finally has gotten some sort of critical damage, probably heat damage. I've kept a close eye on its temperature using Core Temp software, so it wasn't getting hot at the time, nor has it been taxed much lately at all... But it does run at 140-150 F (60-65 C) just about all the time, it's not a particularly cool-running processor, so it may have just been it's time to fry. Any thoughts on any other possible causes for something like this? (EDIT: Oh yeah, I've had the laptop for about 5.2 years at this point, and I used it every day for most of that time... if something broke just from age, I wouldn't be surprised, though I've kept things like the heat sink cleaned and such...)

You see, I know funny stuff sometimes, all you have to do is mention the right thing.