Im thinking in buying a new comp, and think that some of you guys might know a whole lot more than me about computers and can help me. I just want to know which would be best, windows or Mac OS running on intel or PowerPC ( i mean for use in blender, i dont really care about other apps).
and last of all, does it make a significant difference? how?
Thanks beforehand
Of course you know that this poll will turn into a âWhat system do you ownâ because most people probably donât have experience on more than one O/S. I canât answer the question because I have only ever used Windows.
Using it on a Mac is painful. The mouse experience is terrible. In every other platform, Right-Click is for selecting an object, on the friggin Mac, you have to Cmd+Left-Click. That is an enormous pain in the ass when I am used to using Alt+Click for other reasons on every othe platform. The part that makes it worse is that the RMB on my mac is set for the Crtl+Click combination for use in the MacOSX operations.
Just to clear things up, the Mac is a Dual 2.0Ghz G5, and my preferred machine at home is my Athlon 2600+ running Ubuntu. And the really incredible thing is that rendering on this G5 isnât noticeably faster than my lin box.
Umm, remove those proprietary mouse drivers (intellimouse?) and let OS X recognize your RMB and MMB clicks as what they are. Magically, blender works fine now!
Also, you donât need to map RMB -> CMD-Click because the actions are essentially equivalent.
Also, the rendering issue seems about par for the course with my experiences with G5s. Vastly overrated performance in the real world.
Umm, remove those proprietary mouse drivers (intellimouse?) and let OS X recognize your RMB and MMB clicks as what they are. Magically, blender works fine now!
Are you kidding me?! Does that really work? Man, I have been banging my head on that one for a while now. I had no idea the fix was that easy!
p4 3.0 ht is faster than my 1.8 g5. new core duo macs are 2-3 times faster than my g5. athlon X2âs are the way to go right now. Either way you go, get LOTS of RAM.
AMD Athlon64 X2âs are nice, I should know, I have one. and my 2.0ghz will 75% faster than a 3.0 ghz P4 w/ Hyperthreading. besides, if youre worried about spending money, you can build an Athlon64 X2 machine for $700-800. as oposed to $1300 for an iMac.