Is it possible to build your own Mac Pro?

[Bruce Allen]

Here we go again; my usual disclaimer, I use all three but.... you make osx sound like a barely working frankenstein. Whatever !
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When the Finder stops crashing and hanging when you try to copy 1000-frame image sequences, I will pronounce it working.

By the way, the best way to work around this that I've found is to turn all icons off and use columns mode.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

 

[Poi Boy]

When the Finder stops crashing and hanging when you try to copy 1000-frame image sequences, I will pronounce it working.

By the way, the best way to work around this that I've found is to turn all icons off and use columns mode.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

That is one I haven't encountered, in fact , I can't remember the last time osx crashed on me, maybe six months ago.
Aloha
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[Brook Willard]

Bruce, there may be something going on with your system. Your post made me curious... so I moved and copied a 6,553 frame 2K DPX sequence a few times. No crash, no hanging, no pinwheel... it just took a while [as I would expect any 51GB chunk of files to].

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I concur with Brook. No such problems here and I move 1000's of images all the time.

OTOH, I just love the memory leaks in Photoshop CS2 (don't know if CS3 is fixed, I haven't updated yet) and I've found it pretty easy to crash Safari... I can stall Finder pretty easily too with other tasks... So yeah, OSX still has its issues. ...Just like any other OS.

 

[PenGun]

I'm not here to start a war. I can do that all over the place. The only reason I even posted was the nature of the thread.

I don't like either OS X or Windows. I find myself tearing my hair out trying to get anything done on those platforms. Win2000+ and OS X both are reasonable OSs and are useful tools. I just don't like em' much.

 

[Alex Carr]

lets get back on topic...

lets get back on topic...

Wasn't this a 'Can OSX run on my PC?' Post? C'mon guys...

I've been Cutting professionally in FCP 6 for over two months... Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 runs smoother because not all the bugs have been worked out of 10.4.9,

However developers are crunching on 10.4.11 and skipping a few... 10.5 is in development now and running smoothly on X86...

I wouldn't mind paying $200 for a Mac os X operating system for X86... now that all the dev / hackers have done all the hard work to create drivers for almost all hardware... it would only sky-rocket profits for Apple. Wait for another 2 years and It'll drop. dont worry... those die hard Apple fans will still buy Apple Hardware. But me a Pro Digitech... not so fast.

Invest in a X86 server workstation w/ the Southbridge 6321ESB / North Bridge Intel 5000X. All of your hardware is compatible. But Dual Socket Xeon Boards do not feature overclocking abilities like 775 Quad core 2 Duo does.
Kind of why I'm halting my 8 core Xeon ($1500, if you build it yourself) 2.0ghz clovertown's are $300 each... But a core2Quad is $300... and A board is $200-$250... well affordable... even for a low budget... Ive set up some systems for some stooges, and they have not managed to break the install in 8 months...

Development is extraordinary... I dont Edit on a Mac any more...I sold my G5 when I saw how well it ran on my PC... I personally see more crashes on a PPC G5 than my 3.0ghz Core2duo... It's been solid for six months... I trust it!
Black Magic works! Digidesign Pro tools works! HD audio, I Edit in 1080P24 from XDCAM and Varicam / HVX-500... No troubles, everything real-time(as expected).


oh...
Linux can do many things Windows and Mac os x cannot... I give respect!


Just like this camera will break many boundaries so will MacOSX86...