[geeks] New Macs

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:40:29AM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
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>>So they look pretty impressive.
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>>http://www.apple.com/powermac/
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>>Dual 867 for $1699, ddr, 133MHz FSB
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>>Or Dual 1.25 for $5k.
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>So, what machines are you guys using?  Between price drops for Macs, and
>price drops for Maya, that is looking like a pretty compelling desktop
>platform.   If only I had a spare 6 grand.  Long term, I think a career
>writing plugins for some such application seems pretty nice (either
>independently, or for a animation or effects company), and Maya, SI, or
>Max seem the best place to work out of (although for sanity-sake, I'd go
>with either SI or Maya on non-intel if I'm the one paying for the
>setup). 
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Still PC's. Dual Athlon 1.6GHz, 2GB Ram, GeForce 4's or ATI Radeon 8500's.

Someone from Discreet is here and he brought his Dual Xeon 2.4 and it 
was 80% of the speed of the Athlons.

With the rumour about Apple buying Alias|Wavefront, OSX may be the only 
option for Maya in the future.

shawn