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From: "Stephen van Vuuren" <stephen@sv2studios.com>
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Subject: RE: [AE] iMac and AE
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:19:26 -0400
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> That sort of thing is only meaningful for the first week and a half. =
Work expands to fit the available resources

Or contracts.. and only if you let your tools dictate your work. It =
should be the other way around. Maybe you have the overhead to absorb =
that kind of inefficiency, but I don't like to operate on that. My own =
two cents...

I used to be a very high paid IT infrastructure wonk before I returned =
to filmmaking in 99 - and that sort of thinking got many, many companies =
in very deep water. I did very well and advanced quickly by great =
boosting computing performance, user skill levels and massive increase =
in infrastructure speed, redundancy and capacity all while cutting spend =
per user of total IT budget. The CTO of the company was so convinced I =
was going by spending more, he hired the Gartner Group to analyze the =
whole company and our division came out first on satisfaction, first on =
performance but well below corporate average on spend.

Look at Google - they have applied the best thinking in this area of =
price/performance/TCO to a science. The cool think about their work on =
storage drives is I see how true it's been with my own storage planning =
for the eventual 150 TB that Outside In will consume (right at about 60 =
TB) right now. But I've paid a tiny fraction of what a standard RAID =
storage solution would have cost.

I think for individuals, small shops and large in the post world, the =
same type of science in dealing with price/performance and TCO goes a =
lot further than letting "work fit available resources". I strongly =
believe infrastructure science is the way to be one step or more ahead =
of competition in technical field.

stephen van vuuren
336.202.4777

http://www.sv2studios.com/
http://www.outsideinthemovie.com/
http://www.stephenv2.me/

A film is =E2=80=93 or should be =E2=80=93 more like music than like =
fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, =
what=E2=80=99s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
=E2=80=93Stanley Kubrick


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From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf =
Of Tsassoon
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 6:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [AE] iMac and AE

That sort of thing is only meaningful for the first week and a half. =
Work expands to fit the available resources. I've done most of the work =
that I've done in my life on computers that wouldn't keep up with =
today's phones, as we all inevitably will.

I buy Apple machines because I find them cheaper to administer, and at =
two years will still sell for 50% of retail. That is, I've found their =
TCO is the lowest. What's needed though are more Thunderbolt =
peripherals, including ePCIe boxen. Is there something stopping nVidia =
from writing their own OSX drivers for a wider range of their cards?


Tim Sassoon
SFD
Santa Monica, CA

Sent from my iPhone


On Apr 13, 2012, at 1:34 PM, "Stephen van Vuuren" =
<stephen@sv2studios.com> wrote:

> You can=E2=80=99t get a Sandy Bridge E system from Apple

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