Not denying Jim’s experience but I do need to ask if he’s tried a workstation class machine such as the HP Z800 configured with adequate RAM and proper graphics card.  Somewhere above the discussion of mac v pc and making a purchase based on price, there is a realm of higher quality/better components in a workstation that don’t offer any of the downside things Jim has experienced.  Mine’s a dual processor quad core Xeon w/24GB RAM. Never a hiccup in 2+ years. RAM previews and complex renders are as good today as day one.

 

John

 

From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Teddy Gage
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How are ram previews and rendering more complex on pc? AE is the same program on both OSes.

On Apr 13, 2012 12:07 PM, "Jim Lang" <james.c.lang@gmail.com> wrote:

Unfortunately, every time I have believed the pcs are ok spin, and
bought one, I've been burned.  At work, they go down more, are
convoluted to maintain, and the problems like ram previews and even
rendering complex projects become insurmountable, so forgive me if I
sound like a Mac nut, it's not that I love Apple, it's a matter of
survival.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Rob Birnholz
<absolutemotion@birnholz.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I don't have as much bias against Windows as some people think.>

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