[Maxer]

I never thought about a Mac Mini as a serious render node, how do they compare in speed to an Athlon Dual core 4800, that's what I'm going to build my farm out of.


By the way Victor e-mailed me and his opinion was that having fewer faster machines with more ram was the way to go.

[superbad]

I'm actually looking into building machines using the Core Duo processor like the Mac Mini uses. When you buy the Mac you paying a couple hundred bucks for the Apple logo, the design, etc. Although I would probably wait a few weeks and get the new Core 2. You can build a headless Core Duo machine for under $700, and the Core 2 reviews make it look like it will be the fastest thing you can buy.

[insomnia3d]

All i know is that those Faukers can render at the same speed as the big machines with two processors instead of four. I am still trying to figure that one out. They stack up really well and if you ever need to use a mac, you have one...

[Maxer]

My farm is made up of noting but PC's and I don't know a thing about Mac's or how they would operate on a network. I also will be using this farm for rendering in other applications besides Maxwell and I don't own any Mac licenses for anything.

[aitraaz]

My farm is made up of noting but PC's and I don't know a thing about Mac's or how they would operate on a network. I also will be using this farm for rendering in other applications besides Maxwell and I don't own any Mac licenses for anything.

Bootcamp mate...

[deadalvs]

yeah, bootcamp... and it's free too.

and the OS X is free with the mac mini too... !

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http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

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deadalvs