i love my G5. i have a dell also. i just use it for a few games and holding my music on the network. the mac on the other hand is for photo editing and 3d rendering for me.
i think in the half a year ive had my mac its crashed twice.. very stable machine. no system32 running in the background or w/e haha i hate my pc. people just like to hate macs. i dont mind. i never liked them till i got one.

I work in a computer repair shop, we do macs and pc. I’m a pc guy, the macs are faster on less, period. Its not paper, cause mac processors look slower then pc. Just like AMD is by true numbers slower, a 3000+ is around 2.4 I believe? Yet it still hangs with a p4 3.06 ghz. The new mac os is Unix based, it uses ram better then windows 256 mb in an ibook goes a long way, 256 on a xp system? Think about upgrading today.

my reponce to the major move companies using PC's for video rendering.


Yes they do use a PC for video rendering, but they use linx shells to do all the editing. So its kinda like a mac, pretty much what a mac OS is based on.

But there have been stories of people installing xp on a mac and osX on pc.

Anyone try the 64bit windows yet? supposely the blue screen of death is replaced by a red screen of death.

is everyone basing there claims agianst macs on the older macs. Cuz i'm only supporting the new g5.

-Rjb23+Jun 9, 2005 - 7:30 PM

Agree, I never have a problem with viruses or spyware, but the average user on a PC encounters 10x the amount of crap they get on MACs.

-slipgun+Jun 9, 2005 - 9:48 PM

You may know computer repair and what the 'numbers' say...but I'm not sure how much time you spend on the other end.

I use Maya, After Effects, Shake, Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Premiere to create CG Animation typically a short 2-3 minutes clip. All my work is rendered with high ray trace and shadows and it pushes things to the max. I spend 16 hours/week working on Maya 7.0 on my PC, and 4-5 hours/week working on MAC G4s.

...and thank god I don't have a MAC at home. My 20mb Maya files can hardly run on the MACs at school, viewport camera stalls and skips frames, graph editer crashes when a lot is selected, can't view hardware textures real time, and a ton of other stuff just bogs down. My PC at home, smooth and full functioning.

A single frame that would render in 2 minutes on my PC would take 5 minutes on the MAC G4.

Yes, I've used higher end MAC machines before...and yes they do run better real time and are smoother. But rendering times and hardcore processing is still a problem.

-erics1one+Jun 9, 2005 - 7:20 PM


He's probably running a Compaq Prolinea, j/k. I think Sony let Lucas use the Cell Processor on their systems, but they did use Windows (or a form of it).

-darksecret+Jun 10, 2005 - 7:00 AM

Really? Where ya hear that? That would be an interesting read. Would love to see how much faster things are getting done in their developments.

...but yeah...even with that they're gonna be running Linux/Windows, never a MAC.

macs are based on unix and old os that has been around since the 60s ... linux is a based on the ideas of unix but its totally new code. the idea was to make a free version of an os that worked like unix but wasnt as expensive to own.

the reason why linux is so popular with movie companies is becasue its open source code and the os does very well at running a cluster. the people that work for the movie studios can rewrite any part of the operating system and change it to meet their needs. they can also take 100 computers and join them together as one cluster so that they can all share the workload of rendering high quality frames of video.

so you see, linux and mac are really not the same thing, even thos they are based on the ideas of unix.

-erics1one+Jun 10, 2005 - 11:52 AM

I can't remember, but it could have been for Sky Captain also. I seen it on TV they took a bunch of Cell Processors and slapped them in a black box, they said it weighs like 110 lbs.

in my post i said that film does not use mac really for anything. the VIDEO world (most television) is probably about 75% apple. including rendering the projects. film/video are two very very different things.