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Thanks for the update Teddy! Keep us updated as you start putting it through its paces as a render machine… will be curious to see how it holds up under long term unattended encoding/renders. Does it crap out under sustained usage over time, or hold up…? -- tony romain | principal/creative director trance motion graphic animation and design 323 651 1114 www.trancedesigns.com From: Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> Reply-To: AE list <AE-List@media-motion.tv> Date: Friday, November 30, 2012 4:16 PM To: AE list <AE-List@media-motion.tv> Subject: [AE] [OT] first impressions of late 2012 mac mini Cinebench 11.5 CPU score was 6.5. That is awesome. My i7 2010 MBP gets 2.3, and the new $4000 (fully loaded) iMac tops out around 6.8. Even better I got it for under $900 brand new on ebay. My overclocked, six core 3930K PC running at 4.7 ghz with 32 GB RAM scores around 13 on max cpu speed, so it would theoretically take less than three of these mac minis to equal the workstation CPU output. And a good deal more efficiently, I think (considering I have much more demanding graphics in the workstation than the mini). I can see just six minis being a SERIOUS upgrade to render power in AE / Cinema 4D / Maya / Realflow. Not to mention their extremely small physical footprint. A personal supercomputer of sorts. I'd be interested in comparing price / performance to that 32core opteron rig someone is building. -- Animator & Editor www.teddygage.com Brooklyn |
