[geeks] Apple vs. Sun

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:55:58PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 02:21 PM, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> >>>Sun has 100Mbps ethernet.  Apple has 1Gbps.
> >>
> >>  Irrelevant.  No current desktop applications will get anywhere near 
> >>that.
> >
> >1) NLE
> 
>   Never heard of it.  Can you provide a readers' digest version?

Non linear editor.
 
> >2) Render farming
> 
>   On DESKTOPS?  Umm, no.

O2s, get used for the task, so why not Macs or Blade150s?
 
> >3) NFS
> 
>   If your files are really so big that you need that much bandwidth to 
> move them in a reasonable amount of time, it's time to think about a 
> SAN.

Numerous studios are using Gig-e for sans.  Avid, I believe, is big into
doing that.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd