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I decided to buy my wife an iMac for christmas...

Now I'm addicted to the thing. Looks like my next machine is going to be a Mac Pro (8 or 12 core depending on what the next refresh brings) instead of the dual Xeon Windoze/Linux machine I was planning.

So Ono, when will we being seeing a native Mac version of indigo??? (Just kidding )

i guess hell freezes over before we see a mac version of indigo...

but... r u srs?

*looking at mac pro prices*
*looking at prices of the parts*
*wondering...*

you could build quite a huge render farm of what those things cost!

is there a real reason to buy these things? (apart from the looks, which are cool)

Addiction

You regret it. Always.

Kidding, if you have the bucks to spare in the machine and support if you need it, then ask yourself no question, you are the perfect mac user

From what I've seen a MacPro beats the socks of a skultraill and yet it's cheaper, the same for Xeon, in both cases the processors alone cost more then MacPro.

The core i7 thing however...

Well, they just are a Dual-Xeon box with a (more or less) Unix that has a fancy interface.

I wonder though how a Xeon System can be cheaper than "Xeon Systems" - kinda Zen really...

I personally wouldn't pay THAT much more just for a nice (?) case + OS-Interface - but well, it's not my money so have fun with less if the design of the computer you render your scenes on matters more than the time it takes you to render it!

WytRaven wrote:So Ono, when will we being seeing a native Mac version of indigo??? (Just kidding )

Just install Linux or windows via Bootcamp and run it the nativ way for rendering etc. works fine on my iMac!

ZomB wrote:Just install Linux or windows via Bootcamp and run it the nativ way for rendering etc. works fine on my iMac!

Yeah. I was also looking at Parallels and I also hear there is a mac os version of wine around somewhere.

Considering Mac OS is free bsd humanised (ok so it's a bit more than that) I wonder how much is involved in altering a linux build to become a Mac OS build. I seem to recall from some research i did a while ago that Mac OS even uses gcc as a compiler same as every linux flavor out there.

But seriously ono if you are reading this I really was joking ...about the Mac OS build that is, not about me buying a mac. I am pretty much sold now.

As for the price difference? It isn't that much these days so you could simply put any "extra" down to the fact that you are buying a beautifully designed piece of computing hardware (with a tested and proven functional combination of parts). When it comes down to it there is only a price difference when you compare a Mac to the cheapest thrown together PC equivalent. You build a decent machine from scratch to match a particular mac's specs (including ALL parts, monitor, keyboard, etc) and I'd be surprised if there was really that much difference...maybe $100 or so? (in my case I always water cool my PC's so getting a Mac is actually cheaper for me in the end. water cooling gets damned expensive)

This iMac (this is the aluminium/glass model we are talking about) is a true feat of design and engineering. The Mac Pro is a little more "standard" from a design point of view but for me, personally, stable functionality is more important than sex appeal...just.

BTW Merry Christmas fellow indigoans

Apple Introduces Revolutionary Laptop With No Keyboard!!!


wytRaven O.M.G.

tried and tru mac user here, and I have to say that the quality and longevity of them are superior to any ready made windows box.

just got a iMac myself that moved me into the Intel world, and stated looking at installing a linux build on it to render with indigo, that looks hard, never done anything like that before.

bootcamp is a possibility but than I'd actually have to buy a copy of windows xp, yech.

dmn wrote:Apple Introduces Revolutionary Laptop With No Keyboard!!!


wytRaven O.M.G.

That's nothing more then a prank

@wytRaven :
There's darWine, and it works like a charm

pixie wrote:There's darWine, and it works like a charm

Thanks pixie I'll check it out

WytRaven wrote:

pixie wrote:There's darWine, and it works like a charm

Thanks pixie I'll check it out

And if there's CrossOver which is more advanced, you can try it out, it is Darwine on steroids and costs only 37€

i have to warn you, indigo on wine/darwine/crossover can't render bigger scenes due ram limitation.. (wine is 32bit).. try dual boot with some 64bit linux like me

Still, there's 64 wine underway

Wine64

Anyone able to comment on "Parallels"? Another commercial Mac windows emulator.