Originally posted by BabyDuck
you have no real arguments so you bring up the design of the case? dont take "work on them" literally. you are not supposed to SEE the computer while you work. just slam the case under the desk and work infront of the monitor(s).
you tried a mac and could not stand it because the case was so ugly?


just my $ 0.02

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Originally posted by HAL 9000
And who would want 8 Gig of RAM anyways? I rather use that money on something else like 3 more monitors hehe, could you imagine one monitor for each view in Maya? And I might be wrong but isn't SDRAM the slow kind? DDR is the way to go or RD.

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quite a heavy price tag with duals + some essentials (like screen, extra HD, extra RAM in the order of 2GB or 4GB) running well into the $6000-$8000 range. That's a lot considering it's s-ATA based and you'll have to bleed through the nose for external SCSI arrays).

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That machine can't be so great if Apple must tell lies about the SPECfp 2k performance of the competition: https://www.apple.com/powermac/.

Now in this table at spec.org https://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/cpu2000.html
I find -- just for example -- a Dell Precision WorkStation 650 (2 x 3.06 GHz Xeon) with a SPECfp 2k base of 15.7 (same as the dual G5) not 11.1, as in that image at Apple.com.
And lets look at the SPECint 2k performance of this baby from Dell: 21.7!!! Not anywhere near the 16.7 listed in the Apple diagram -- ouch!

The same Workstation with a single 3.06 GHz Xeon lists with e.g. 1089 SPECint 2k base performance, while the Apple diagram says st. about 836 ...???
Same for SPECfp 2k for this very same single CPU machine: 1053, while the Apple diagram says 646 ...!

Where do these numbers at Apple.com come from?
-- the wet dreams of people working in this company's marketing department?
I'm also sure there are vendors which deliver better optimized PC systems than Dell ...

I didn't bother checking the numbers Apple gave for the single 3.0 GHz Pentium 4, but I bet they're also fictitious.

Now would you buy a new car from someone who's SO obviously lying?

:finger2: Apple's marketing,

Btw.: Maya, Nuke, etc. etc. all on Linux+AMD/Intel -- sorry, couldn't resist ...

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