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May 12, 2007
After Effects CS3 roars on 8-core Mac
"As you know," writes Rob Morgan of benchmarking site Bare Feats, "we've been fishing for an application that, by itself, can justify the purchase of an 8-core Mac Pro. I think we have found it: Adobe After Effects CS3."
According to the site, AECS3's ability to spawn multiple processes & render multiple frames at once is "like creating a 'render farm' within a single Mac" and produces some great results: e.g. doing in 35 seconds on an 8-core Mac what a quad-core G5 needed 155 seconds to accomplish. Bitchin'. I think that longtime AE interface designer/newly minted AE Product Manager Michael Coleman may have more details to share on his blog soon. Also note that AECS3 is available for download as a public beta via Adobe Labs. [Via Fergus Hammond]
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The only problem with that is, it is a Mac. I admit an 8 core PC solution is hard to come by.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/31977/135/
I suppose you could always use bootcamp, would make for a better expience on the Mac.
Troll alert.
She may be a troll, but she can't change the facts — the problem is not with PCs, but with Windows. According to recent internal research by Google, Windows is massively vulnerable to infection just by visiting certain websites. For more details, see
http://rixstep.com/1/20070512,00.shtml
8-core PCs are not hard to come by -- I have one on my desk.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_490?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04
for example