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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 – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. –Stanley Kubrick -----Original Message----- From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Tsassoon Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 6:59 PM To: After Effects Mail List 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’t get a Sandy Bridge E system from Apple +---End of message---+ To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
