Tekzilla: Worth switching to the Mac?

Patrick Norton and Kevin Rose discuss whether it is worth switching to the Mac on Revision3's Tekzilla.

http://www.revision3.com/tekzilla

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Science & Technology

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• Mac
• PC
• Switching
• Patrick
• Norton
• Kevin
• Rose

[steveandant]

windows vista has mac in it.. all you people say vista sucks but it really doesnt, it just dont have the drivers (YET) IT JUST CAME OUT! yea yea apple does blow it away but vista is still good

[Pseudowhis]

Vista is a year old already and older than Leopard (which runs great already). Though I will give you credit because a lot of the original problems with vista have already been solved, but a lot of people still find it frustrating.

[knoose]

I don't understand why Vista is so bad?? I run tons of design software, play most of the newest intense games like Crisis and run things with no issues and the operating system is so reliable. If something does happen good ol Ctrl Alt Delete will bring up the task manager INSTANTLY no matter how deep the freeze is, and then 'end program' really does end it. Maybe its cause i do have 4 gigs, but im only running dual core, 3.4 Who knows....

[sambradley98]

kevin rose from diggnation!!

[TalesOfWar]

@grahamhg If you're running workstations for any serious tasks, I highly advise AGAINST custom builds. What you say on up front cost can potentially lose you far more if/when one of those systems craps out and you have to act as your own tech support, which just takes you away from your usual work and takes a system with it, losing productivity. Even if you end up getting HP Z series or Dell Precisions, getting a ready made is the best option. Mac Pro = win of course lol.

[grahamhg]

@0Orion No I already use it on a mac- it's free as its still in beta at the moment. No plug ins though. I'm probably stuck on windows for workstations because the cost of mac pro's is simply too high. I could build the equivalent machine for 50% of the cost or less.

[0Orion]

@grahamhg BTW, I looked at the Rino site quickly and it looks like OSX is not supported yet. I guess you are stuck on Windows for now.

[grahamhg]

@0Orion There'll definately be a perceived loss. My options at the moment are windows or mac. Mac hardware is FAR too expensive, so i'm thinking of self building some workstations. Then i'll be stuck with windows, this would be fine if only windows didn't make such a meal out of performing basic functions (ie no mac like drag and drop, usb's etc don't pop up on the desktop when you plug them in) Also antivirus eats up ram and i'd prefer not to install it on the machines for rendering.

[0Orion]

@grahamhg I don't know since I don't use those programs.

I don't know what your needs are but you may be able to run autocad & rhino with virtualbox or vmware player.

Virtualbox and Vmware support OpenGL but I don't know if there is going to be a perceived loss in performance in your case.

[grahamhg]

@0Orion Can you get autocad/rhino for linux????

[ryanrich2345]

What's up with the man boobs thru ur shirt? My 8 year old nephew has that same shirt geekazoid..ur 40 not 13 anymore hang it up