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Re: [AE] OT: Mac Bootcamp hardware question
Basically cost!
A dual proc Mac Pro is (or at least was) cheaper than the equivalent Dell or HP etc with the added flexibility of running OSX when needed.
And they look nicer :-)
It is possible to buy a cheap PC ( I have just ordered a couple of cheap i7 render nodes: 6-core 3930K with 32GB RAM, for about €1300 each which I am expecting to almost match the performance of my current 12-core Mac Pro) but dual processor rigs are a different story.
cheers
Elliot
Am 04/04/2012 20:48 schrieb "Jonathan Penzner" unter <sureal@charter.net>:
How interesting. I've never heard of using a Mac as a straight PC running Windows. If you don't mind my asking, why did you make that choice?
Jonathan
On Apr 4, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Elliot Steele wrote:
Re: [AE] OT: Mac Bootcamp hardware question
Jonathan,
I normally boot with the option key but only reboot very few days if that.
If you only have the 1 Windows HD then it will boot straight to it. I’ve got 6 Mac Pros at the moment & only 1 of them has an OSX system intalled along with W7.
The other 5 have Windows 7 64 & Windows XP 64 on separate HDs.
Elliot
Am 04/04/2012 20:34 schrieb "Jonathan Penzner" unter <sureal@charter.net <x-msg://104/sureal@charter.net> >:
Elliot,
If you don't need Bootcamp, have Windows on a separate drive, do you tell the Mac to boot from the Windows Drive via the OPT or is there another way to start up from that drive?
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Apr 4, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Elliot Steele wrote:
Chris,
If there are drivers available for the version of Windows you want to run
(hopefully Windows 7 64 Bit) then any hardware will run fine but obviously
not under OSX.
I've probably posted this before but "Bootcamp" isn't necessary to run
Windows on a Mac, in fact you don't even need to have an OSX system
installed at all. As far as Windows is concerned it's just another PC.
My advice is always install Windows on a separate HD.
I've been running Windows (& AE) on Mac Pros since 2006 without any problems
so if you have any other questions just fire away!
Cheers
Elliot
Am 04/04/2012 20:04 schrieb "Chris Meyer" unter <chris@crishdesign.com <x-msg://104/chris@crishdesign.com> >:
A lot of you know far more about systems and hardware than I do, so I wanted
to fact-check the following two statements to try to separate some myth from
reality about using Bootcamp to run Windows on Mac machines. I'd appreciate
learning if these statements are true, false, and/or need asterisks and
qualifications to properly explain:
- The same hardware will give essentially the same performance on a Mac
running Bootcamp, or a PC running the same version of Windows.
- If you cannot use a certain piece of hardware (such as an NVIDIA Quadro
6000) in a Mac running MacOS, then you also cannot use that hardware in a Mac
running Bootcamp.
thanks in advance -
Chris
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