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Pixar Switches to Mac OS X and G5s
fmorgan writes "No big surprise here: when Apple introduced the G5 at 2003 WWDC, it become more a question of 'when' Pixar will move to G5s, than 'if'). At the same conference, Apple showed a new codec for Mac OS X named 'Pixlet,' developed with Pixar. In last year O'Reilly's Mac OS X conference, there was a presentation on how Pixar moved their desktop/office environment to Mac OS X. Now it seems it's the main production work: 'Apple's Don Peebeles said that Pixar has used Linux and Intel-based architecture in 2003, but that Pixar was switching to Mac OS X and G5 workstations for its production work: Peebles went on to say that this switch was "a move that no doubt made common CEO Steve Jobs very happy."'"
Does it really outperform a beowulf cluster of Athlon 64 FX-51 running linux?
Personally I think they would have been far better off using WindowsXP or sticking with Linux. OS X is nothing but bloatware, well, at least in my experience.
Now that Pixar switched to Macs, it's only a matter of time before they start putting out gay porn.
"it's not just a niche"
I don't get it. Because the company that Jobs is CEO of goes fully OS X that proves that OS X is not just a niche OS? That just doesn't make any sense. I guess if Pixar had like 5 million desktops that might mean something. But they don't so it doesn't. Apple is now and will always be a totally niche OS. There's not anything wrong with that or OS X, its just that this isn't proving what you want it to prove. And I don't say that in a malious way.
all the BSD developers who freely allowed us to steal^H^H^H^H^Huse your code so that we could make millions of dollars selling hardware that we couldn't even make our selves without IBM's help.
I don't have anything against apple computers, apple users on the other hand bug the s*** out of me. They spend YEARS telling me how superior OS whatever was superior to my Linux box only to find that Apple had to borrow technology freely available in order to actually make there systems useful, then they don't even know how to use it other than point and click...
I was under the impression that the G5's did not have ported Wildcat or Nvidia Quadro's that are designed specifically for cad work.
All the other consumer cards are slower and have precicion trouble under fine lines which the expense ones do not have.
If Apple is serious about taking over the Unix cad market, they need not only Maya, but real 3d cards and more engineering and cad software.
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This has been discussed quite enough. Apple wins when the cost/performance ratio is considered; that's why Virgina Tech bought all those G5's last summer! It's not a CEO mandate. It's a valid technical decision. And this isn't SCO we're talking about, so you can keep your "fudiciary" issues to your fudself.
Is "Pleasing Mr. Jobs" the next title from Pixar? I hope he wasn't personally involved in the hardware selection process. I think that would constitute a very real conflict of interest. In these days of scrutiny to all corporate decisions, the G5 would have to truely excel by a wide margin, or some armchair CEO/boardmember would consider a stockholder lawsuit. I'm sorry I can read the story - I get a database connection error. I hope they aren't using Apple servers.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
I take this as somewhat of a low blow to linux. Even if it is on just the production machines and not the serverfarms that are being switched.
I'm just going to state right now that I'm not an apple fan - it doesn't suit my purposes. Not that I don't like ppc64 or what not, I'd buy a ppc 64 machine from ibm or whoever if the support was there when it comes to games and such on linux but I wouldn't buy it from apple. I don't like their philosophy and their marketing propaganda. Perhaps I'm biased but lets get back to the point.
If you look at it, apple is competiting much more in linux's market in this particular field than microsoft is. Clustering and server farms are much more scalable using unix based os's or that's at least what it seems to me.
I doubt it would do anything too severe but I look at apple as a company competiting just like any other and with their long standing FUDed up history of being good with media and what not with most people not even examining the claims and just accepting them...it does seem that the elitist following that apple has can sometimes be hurtful towards linux.
I'm not attacking apple users - I don't hold it against anyone who's not bought into the silly propaganda that apple likes to spout, but in a world full of silly marketing bullshit and 99.9% of people blindly following along like senseless droids, what am I to expect?
I am not one to post on here much but seeing things like this in the news makes me angry. So while Steve Jobs can be happy about the switch, I just have another reason not to like the guy, and his companies. Including pixar (which I don't think makes very good movies to begin with.)
Sure, mod me down, I'm opinionated and spouting bullshit, right? I'm tired of apple propaganda. I'm tired of apple's trendy appeal. I'm tired of seeing apple commercials on TV, I'm tired of hearing about pixar movies, and let's not even talk about debian's decision to call 3.0 woody.
I need a break.
If you don't want someone to copy something, don't give it to anyone.
$2,999.00
check it at apple.com and for that price tag you get 512 MB of DDR 400, and a ATI Radeon 9600. Hmmm...for that cost, I'll just build 3 AMD XP2600 cluster.
Anonymous Cowards - Oh God, How I hate you
Keep on pointing it out. Most of us filter out ACs anyway. Just pointing out how big of a freak you guys are (all one of you).
"Sufferin' succotash."
Go look up the definition of a monopoly you dumb jackass. I see this comment every single time there's an article about Apple. Not a monopoly, a vertically integrated company. I know the shades of difference are hard for you to hold onto but try.
Anyone who whines about being modded down should be.