One of the big surprises when I started working at this company that uses a lot of macs was the complete lack of free utilities available on a mac. You can get almost any kind of converter/utility for windows for free, but EVERYTHING on a mac will cost you money and most of them don’t even have demo versions so you can see if it even work. Hopefully they will continue to allow people to downgrade to earlier versions of windows, but with the way they are pushing their cell phone OS they probably won’t allow it on this version.
From: Martin yara Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 11:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Windows 8 - anyone? We gained stability directx and some other things with winXP so it was a good change from win98 and 2000. It felt like a 98 and 2000 mixed and with the SPs blue screens were pretty rare. XP 64 and Vista never felt like a finished product so Win7 64 was a huge change for designers. 2 or 3Gb per application was just not enough. This time, I just don't see any reason to upgrade. Not yet at least. It seems that the upgrade price will be quite cheap so it may be worth to give it a try, specially if there is a no Metro GUI option. Linux and OSX are quite limited in software and plugins library so I don't think they are a valid option for a designer / generalist. M.Yara On 2012/08/19, at 8:22, Andreas Bystrom <[email protected]> wrote: "You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually liked, but most other people didn’t)." ofcourse, there are still people using win2k/nt even. also i did not forget vista, i ran it myself for years and was quite happy with it, win7 is better but overall vista wasn't that terrible either. also having used Linux for almost 2 years at work I've realized you can get used to and be quite happy with anything, its just a matter of using it long enough really, even though I still would never bother using linux at home.. On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Sam Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually liked, but most other people didn’t). From: Andreas Bystrom Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? ". So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3." hmm, it's not april.... did hell just freeze over? actually the day alan jones writes something like that will be the day hell truly freezes over.. on a serious note, for every single windows release that's about to come out since win2k I've heard the same exact thing "this will be terrible, I'm staying with win xxxx forever" yet those same people somehow upgraded throughout the years and found themselves quite happy... On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: It's not any better in the Linux Camp. Everyone is moving towards tablet use. But what boggles me is that... how can the developers themselves stand it? On a side note. I've been using Linux for a long time now, but got fed up with crappy wacom drivers and the crippled paint applications. So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3. Anyhow, going to take a shower now since I feel quite dirty. And I think Windows 8 will be as Vista, a "side-note". They are already talking about Windows9. regards stefan On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Sylvain Lebeau <[email protected]> wrote: this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros... Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all professional market get's ignored!! i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone!!!!! wtf is going on with these guys!? sly -- Sylvain Lebeau // SHED V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM> <postbox-contact.jpg> Paul Griswold Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested it out yet? I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it. I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine & start over anyway. Thanks, Paul -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com -- Andreas Byström Lighting TD - Weta Digital -- Andreas Byström Lighting TD - Weta Digital
