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Originally Posted by c312
but seriously, there are more options for PC but the Mac options are often times better. EX: FinalCut Pro was used to make LOTR because it is better than the PC competitors.
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And an assload of pc's were bunged together to render the cgi for lotr, becuase macs weren't upto the job.
[quote:a0106]"It makes sense to buy them when we need them, so I hold the money back. This rack is based around 700 MHz Pentium III processors, for the next round I expect I will be buying 800 MHz or 1 gigahertz processors, and so on."
The 16 servers each have 1GB of RAM and a 9GB SCSI hard disk.
Weta, an offshoot of Peter Jackson's Wingnut Films, expects to create and manage nearly 100 terabytes of information during the production of over 1200 visual effect shots needed for the films.
The sheer volume of data movement each day, with many files in excess of 1Gb, creates major technical challenges.
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