Re: Softimage on new retina MBP
Macs are obscenely overpriced for what you get. Look at the price of memory on the Apple web site, then go to newegg.com and look up the same memory. The difference is about 4 time more for the memory from apple($150 for 4Gigs vs. $37). Considering that the original mac g5 had a 50% failure rate, I think I’ll stick to buying my computer hardware somewhere else. This rant brought to you by 10 years of dealing with crap computers at work made by apple. Seriously, do you really need that resolution on a 15” screen? From: Alan Fregtman Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 8:43 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage on new retina MBP Last I heard there are no updated Bootcamp drivers for the Retina Macbook yet, so I suspect the OpenGL performance is poor for the time being. That said, I've read evidence that Windows still sees the full resolution and I'm sure it looks quite nice, though I wonder if the menus appear small since much of the UI consists of bitmaps. On another note, the GPU is Nvidia so it shouldn't act funny like an ATI under XSI. So pricy though, damn! Here in Canada, getting the 16GB RAM model with 512GB SSD is $3,029, plus tax! Considering the cost, I've been eyeing this other beast: http://www.reflexnotebook.ca/index.php/sager-notebooks/sager-np9150.html You can go quite nuts customizing it with insane specs that (screen-aside) put the Retina to shame and it's still under $3k. Definitely not as thin though, hehe. Decisions, decisions. On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com wrote: Does someone tryed softimage on the new MBP? Is it compatible with the new retina display and does it perform well? Thanks -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos
Re: Softimage on new retina MBP
That's ECC versus non ECC I believe. Price Mac memory versus ECC server memory and you'll get a better comparison. -Paul Phalangically transmitted through an iPad to your cerebral cortex. On Jul 1, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote: Macs are obscenely overpriced for what you get. Look at the price of memory on the Apple web site, then go to newegg.com and look up the same memory. The difference is about 4 time more for the memory from apple($150 for 4Gigs vs. $37). Considering that the original mac g5 had a 50% failure rate, I think I’ll stick to buying my computer hardware somewhere else. This rant brought to you by 10 years of dealing with crap computers at work made by apple. Seriously, do you really need that resolution on a 15” screen? *From:* Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com *Sent:* Saturday, June 30, 2012 8:43 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Softimage on new retina MBP Last I heard there are no updated Bootcamp drivers for the Retina Macbook yet, so I suspect the OpenGL performance is poor for the time being. That said, I've read evidence that Windows still sees the full resolution and I'm sure it looks quite nice, though I wonder if the menus appear small since much of the UI consists of bitmaps. On another note, the GPU is Nvidia so it shouldn't act funny like an ATI under XSI. So pricy though, damn! Here in Canada, getting the 16GB RAM model with 512GB SSD is $3,029, plus tax! Considering the cost, I've been eyeing this other beast: http://www.reflexnotebook.ca/index.php/sager-notebooks/sager-np9150.html You can go quite nuts customizing it with insane specs that (screen-aside) put the Retina to shame and it's still under $3k. Definitely not as thin though, hehe. Decisions, decisions. On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.comwrote: Does someone tryed softimage on the new MBP? Is it compatible with the new retina display and does it perform well? Thanks -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos
Re: Softimage on new retina MBP
Last I heard there are no updated Bootcamp drivers for the Retina Macbook yet, so I suspect the OpenGL performance is poor for the time being. That said, I've read evidence that Windows still sees the full resolution and I'm sure it looks quite nice, though I wonder if the menus appear small since much of the UI consists of bitmaps. On another note, the GPU is Nvidia so it shouldn't act funny like an ATI under XSI. So pricy though, damn! Here in Canada, getting the 16GB RAM model with 512GB SSD is $3,029, plus tax! Considering the cost, I've been eyeing this other beast: http://www.reflexnotebook.ca/index.php/sager-notebooks/sager-np9150.html You can go quite nuts customizing it with insane specs that (screen-aside) put the Retina to shame and it's still under $3k. Definitely not as thin though, hehe. Decisions, decisions. On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.comwrote: Does someone tryed softimage on the new MBP? Is it compatible with the new retina display and does it perform well? Thanks -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos
