Working Hand in Hand Red - Apple

[wshultz]

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I tend to bid projects out at flat rates and if I can do them in less time (read faster computer) I'm more profitable. I'm definitely turning around more projects in less time than I could with smaller drives, slower processors, etc. I'd have to say my Mac has been a good investment in that regard, not to mention the decreased fatigue and increased enjoyment factor. That counts for me too.

 

[Bruce Allen]

Agree with you guys. Wshultz, yes, fatigue and enjoyment factor is underrated. If it makes you feel faster and more confident with clients and gets you in a good creative mood, I can definitely see you being able to turn around jobs more quickly.

I still don't think that the correlation between cpu speed and render times is really as direct as everyone believes it to be - mostly nowadays, render times are determined by your workflow and skill. And the relationship between render times and project turnarounds is more tenuous still. Depends on the nature of the work you do, I guess. For me (mostly doing design and effects for theatrical trailers), it is 90% human factors, 10% cpu speed... if you're doing long-form churning through low-end stuff it would be different.

Haakon, I agree with you too - in my initial post to Gismor I said the same thing - that unless he has pressing projects that need a super-fast computer, he really should wait until a month or so before delivery of his Red before buying one.

I'm also looking into a Mac for my next computer - like you, Haakon, I'm looking at sometime next year... I'm trying to wait for Nehalem and the next GPU cycle but that might be optimistic.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

 

[Steve Freebairn]

I'm also looking into a Mac for my next computer - like you, Haakon, I'm looking at sometime next year... I'm trying to wait for Nehalem and the next GPU cycle but that might be optimistic.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

I'm hoping for the same thing Bruce!

 

[Ivan D. Young]

Yeah, has anyone heard whether Red will filter down to any PC apps? Just wondering, I realize that Apple will get a pretty good head start on this and I am cool with that, but will PC's get there?