Best Platform for Running Maya?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 12, 2002 @03:28AM from the king-of-the-mayan-hill dept.

Kieckerjan asks: "A friend of mine, who's an architect, has been appointed a research position at a small university. Along with the job he's been assigned a budget to spend on whatever he thinks is necessary to get the job done. One of the things he needs is a fast machine to run Maya. As he is fed up with Wintel systems, he's been looking into alternatives. His eye fell on SGI's Fuel workstation, which costs about 15.000 EURO. For that kind of money you can buy a seriously bad-assed pentium-based system, and run Linux on it. His question to me was: is it worthwhile to shell out the extra money for a SGI system? Since I have no experience with modern SGI's, I am in no position to judge about performance differences, but maybe someone on this forum does."

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Macintosh! by psyconaut · 2002-11-12 03:42 · Score: 2, Troll

Get a dual 1.25Ghz Mac. Cheaper than the IRIX box. More friendly than Linux. Better build quality than most PeeCees.

Oh, and cheaper than the IRIX box.

-psy
1. Re:Macintosh! by psyconaut · 2002-11-12 04:26 · Score: 1, Troll
  
  How can it be "up to 50% DOAs"? Something is either DOA or not....it's an absolute figure over time.
  
  Secondly, back up this claim that Macs are "up to 50% DOA". I think Apple would be out of business if that were true; based purely on the cost of swapping out DOA hardware!
  
  Macintosh hardware is, in my considerable experience, better quality than most major PeeCee brands. Based on DOAs and hardware failures.
  
  -psy
  
  -psy