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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 08:42 AM
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Wow do you miss the point.

Of course Renderman will run on cheap-**** desktops. However, that is for tiny shops or single professionals. Hmmmm, I'm at Pixar... do I use my cheap-**** $10K Power Mac with 8 cores or that bad-**** million dollar 1000+ core supercomputer in the back room?

Pixar movies are computed on Linux/Intel supercomputers. Not Macs. Period. Front end work workstations maybe Macs, but you can shove any dumb terminal up there when the sever is doing all the work. Macs are not special.

I also wonder if with the release last year of v14 of the Renderman Server product if Pixar themselves moved to Windows HPC Server 2008 ... that would be awesome.
I never said Macs were special. You and the name caller claimed they don't use Macs. I said they do. Nothing special about that.


They would be stupid to NOT start using Windows Servers. 64-bit. Trump.
 
Old Feb 24, 2009 | 09:07 AM
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You guys need to cool it. It is stupid to keep arguing such a subject. Obviously, there is a market for both products or they could not both exist.
 
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 09:09 AM
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No more name calling and insults, for sure. Arca, you need to especially heed the warning. There will beonly one.
 
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Bluejay
No more name calling and insults, for sure. Arca, you need to especially heed the warning. There will be only one.
fixed it for you!
 
Old Feb 24, 2009 | 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Arca_ex
Ugh. I'm not even going to try and correct your terrible grammar. Apparently it doesn't have a real spell checker either. Matter of fact my computer corrects both! And it's not a Mac!
By the way "a lot" is two words, not one.
sometimes i dont like how it spells stuff, so i dont fix it

see i didnt put the ' between the n and t

and i never said pc's didn't i just said it was a nice feature my mac has that my previous pc didn't. and i never said a mac was better than a pc i just like it better, personal preference
 
Old Feb 24, 2009 | 09:17 AM
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fixed it for you!
Thanks, it's early!
 
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Bluejay
You guys need to cool it. It is super fun to keep arguing such a subject. Obviously, there is a market for both products or they could not both exist.
Fixed another mistake you made.

There is market for any POS product. Even POS sells. Not that a mac is a POS. In fact, its not. It's just WAY overpriced, overhyped, and underwhelming to use.
 
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Originally Posted by dzervit
Fixed another mistake you made.

There is market for any POS product. Even POS sells. Not that a mac is a POS. In fact, its not. It's just WAY overpriced, overhyped, and underwhelming to use.
Now D, for a second there, I thought you were decribing yourself!
 
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 12:16 PM
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Now D, for a second there, I thought you were decribing yourself!
Replace overpriced with pompous and I think you've got it!

PS - can't you spell describing?
 
Old Feb 24, 2009 | 12:18 PM
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Replace overpriced with pompous and I think you've got it!

PS - can't you spell describing?
Not without a Mac!
 
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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 02:03 PM
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So wait. I still don't get it. Is a Mac worth the money or what?

 
Old Feb 24, 2009 | 02:09 PM
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Not even if you throw in large fries and drink.
 
Old Feb 24, 2009 | 02:12 PM
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Not even if you throw in large fries and drink.

Whew! Thanks for clearing that up!
 
Old Feb 24, 2009 | 02:29 PM
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love trucks, i think their worth the money.

for graduation me and my sister both got 2k for computer, printer, and all software, and other computer related supplies we needed for college.

i spent right over $2k for a fully loaded mac book, a few pieces of software, printer, and a 3 year warranty and i got a free ipod touch

my sister spent about the same maybe $100 less, got a printer, and re-used a piece of microsoft office we already had. she did get a 17" computer, which is way to big for carrying around IMO, she now has a new computer after 2 years because the computer wouldn't function. i think she spent $800 or $900 on her new computer and its pretty nice for what it is.

with the ipod touch and printer which were free i got about $400 worth of free stuff that i could have sold and been at about the same price as a pc.

my parents i think will be buying a mac desktop soon bc their desktop doesn't work at all, then we have 2 dell laptops just laying around the house, both i wont use because they are so slow and freeze up so often and have nearly no un needed software slowing it down.

it just depends i thought it was worth the extra money, but some people won't its just your preference. you can get a basic macbook for $999 which isn't to bad, my friend has it and it has no complaints and loves it over his pc. i would atleast look into a mac and go play on one at the store or use a friends to see how you like it.
 

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Old Feb 24, 2009 | 02:35 PM
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"for graduation me and my sister both got 2k for computer, printer, and all software, and other computer related supplies we needed for college."

Wow, and I thought my dad's gift, a Cross pen and pencil set, was great.

Times, they are a changin'.

 



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