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Hum. I have lots of customers with X-Serves in render farms (different batch FX, transcoding, etc), really Mac Pro or Mac mini won't cut it. Ok, any 1U Dell wou

by wazoox 16y ago

Hum. I have lots of customers with X-Serves in render farms (different batch FX, transcoding, etc), really Mac Pro or Mac mini won't cut it. Ok, any 1U Dell would be fine, except for all this Mac OS software they already paid for, and the fact that they'd rather stay Mac only. In the video world, that definitely is a blow.

masklinn 16y ago
> I have lots of customers with X-Serves in render farms (different batch FX, transcoding, etc) And their render farms will not stop working tomorrow will they? > really Mac Pro or Mac mini won't cut it. Power-wise, mac pros are strictly superior to xserves at equivalent prices fwiw. Though they're not rackable (which is probably the main issue) and do have the issue of no redundant power supply.
- wazoox 16y ago
  > Power-wise, mac pros are strictly superior to xserves at equivalent prices fwiw. Are you only trying to be naggingly contrarian, or is it your true nature showing? Render farms are made with dense systems, 1U or blades. You can put 6 Mac Pro for a grand total of 72 cores, vs. 44 XServes with 352 cores in a standard rack. Now please explain to me how better the Mac Pro would be.