Cesar R Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Well, I am still thinking about it, and maybe you guys can provide some insight. I currently have a dual athlon (which is sold) and a 17" powerbook. I have the followig options: keep my 17" powerboo and get a G5 or Sell the 17" powerbook get a G5 and 12" powerbook or Sell the 17" powerbook get a sony laptop and a boxx as far as software, for the mac archicad or vector works with C4D and for pc archicad and 3D max + vray What will be doing with this equipment ? renders and cad drawings. some for money and some for school ( I like to go all out in my school presentations comments ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Cesar, I think you should wait until the G5 actually starts shipping before making any choices. For all we know it could be delayed. Athlon64 and much faster steppings of opteron will be available upon the G5's release (actual competition against the G5). Not to mention thousands of other changes we have no way of knowing about. The G5's great, fantastic, and cool...but you never know how the product is actually going to be until the general user gets their hand onto it. Originally posted by Cesar R: Well, I am still thinking about it, and maybe you guys can provide some insight. I currently have a dual athlon (which is sold) and a 17" powerbook. I have the followig options: keep my 17" powerboo and get a G5 or Sell the 17" powerbook get a G5 and 12" powerbook or Sell the 17" powerbook get a sony laptop and a boxx as far as software, for the mac archicad or vector works with C4D and for pc archicad and 3D max + vray What will be doing with this equipment ? renders and cad drawings. some for money and some for school ( I like to go all out in my school presentations comments ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace_Face Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 The folks at Pixar seemed to like the G5. At SIGGRAPH their booth was cranking out film resolution frames with complex shaders and motion blurring. I heard that a dual 3 Gig version would be available one year from the original announcement. Timing will be just right for me to replace my current system. :ebiggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar R Posted August 8, 2003 Author Share Posted August 8, 2003 Yeah Greg you are right, I was thinking of that today, anyway I will not be completely ready to replace my equipment until mid nov or early december. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted August 9, 2003 Share Posted August 9, 2003 Don't forget that Max doesn't run on a Mac. If you are using Max and not C4D to render, then I'd put the cash into the fastest hardware - like those Opterons. Greg - does Intel have any chips coming out in the near future to combat all these 64 bitters? Seems odd that it's been in the news at Apple and AMD for a while now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Nichols Posted August 9, 2003 Share Posted August 9, 2003 Originally posted by mbr: Greg - does Intel have any chips coming out in the near future to combat all these 64 bitters? Seems odd that it's been in the news at Apple and AMD for a while now. Ever hear of the Itanium? It has been out for a long time... the only drawback to it was price... hence the nickname: unobtainium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted August 9, 2003 Share Posted August 9, 2003 Itanium's other major drawback is that it doesn't do 32 bit in hardware. Pretty massive performance hits when running 32 bit applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace_Face Posted August 13, 2003 Share Posted August 13, 2003 Cesar, We have monitored render speeds on several different Mac's in our office, and found that G4 Towers are the fastest, with the Xserve very close. Laptops are slower because of bus speed. imac's (both types) are much slower due to bus speeds. Of course the G5 has been clocked by the Renderman benchmarks as very fast. (for obvious reasons). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted August 13, 2003 Share Posted August 13, 2003 http://www.cgarchitect.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000146 Benchmarks of Mac's and Pc's with Cinebench 2003. Higher #'s = Faster Dual Ghz G4 (DDR) Raytrace (single CPU): 96 Raytrace (dual CPU): 174 Single 1.7 Ghz P4 Rendering (Single CPU): 147 CB-CPU Single 1.0 Ghz P3 Rendering (Single CPU): 108 CB-CPU Single 1800+ XP (1.53 Ghz) Rendering (Single CPU): 192 CB-CPU Gives you an idea price/performance wise of where current G4's stand in Cinema 4D. (Which runs on OS X) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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