On 29 Nov 2005 at 6:18, Bob Shell wrote: > Actually it is high-end video editing where Macs are predominant. If > you go out to California and visit any of the companies doing FX and > CGI work for the motion picture industry you will only see Macs. I > only have been involved in the publishing business here in the USA, > in England, and in Germany, and all were 100% Mac.
Interesting, I attend film industry technology talks (irregularly granted) and I'm surprised about what you are saying. > Our nearby university, and my alma mater, Virginia Tech just recently > built a supercomputer by interconnecting some humongous number of > high-end desktop machines. They used Macs for this project in spite > of the higher costs, primarily because of much greater reliability in > their experience. It works great and some other universities are > following their lead. Again interesting, I hadn't heard of Mac farms usually they tend to use PC servers running some form of UNIX, maybe they are now harnessing the UNIX side of the Macs now that the OS has grown up? Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
