vic3d Posted January 6, 2013 Report Share Posted January 6, 2013 Is there any difference between using EIAS on a Mac and a PC? Do cameras and renderama work the same? I am feeling inclined to switching to PCs for the price. Thanks. Vic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted January 6, 2013 Report Share Posted January 6, 2013 Ola Vic, They work the same, but I really prefer the OSX operational system with EIAS. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantomaz Posted January 6, 2013 Report Share Posted January 6, 2013 Oh, me too! Overall Ei 'feels' more like an OSX app than a pc one. Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic3d Posted January 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 Well as long as it works... Thanks a lot for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 Hi Vic, I am working and creating the scene on Mac, but all my render farm it is on PC's because the price, speed, and stability. Last year we did 60 minutes of stereo render HD and did not find peace until I switched to a PC render farm. much cheaper and faster, no crashes. But I don't have experience creating the scene on PC's I only use them for render. Cheers Diego Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikems Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 If you think that PC have more speed with EIAS it's possible that your PC hardware is more modern than your Mac hardware. A proccesor like i7 or i5 is more powerfull and optimized than a Xeon or dualcore per unit Mhz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Hi Kikems, We invested 13,000 € in 10 X i7 PCs mounted in a rack cabinet plus a gigabite network, the same money invested in Mac give it near to 3 times less productivity. My scene creation Macs are Nehalem and the last 12 cores. I agree with Tom and Alex about OSX is more friendly for EIAS, but for render productivity PC's are far a better choice to me. Thanks Diego 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikems Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 We always use windows machines for the render farm, more cheap option to try to make Mac render farm :D But for make the projects we use Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantomaz Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 I am using only Macs to render (3x Mac Pro) why? Its easy: when i need more render power, i need it fast without any configuration trouble. So buying a Mac Pro is a single-click thing, when receiving the Mac, it will 'cost' me around 30 minutes to unbox and to finish the OS installation. An other 30 minutes for registering in my network and copying the needed files (the slavefolder of an other machine from my network). So the new renderer is up in around 60 minutes and ready to go. I tried hard with PCs in the past, but was never able to get these machines so quick to work than a new Mac. When you have the time and a longtime project is ahead you can get the results Diego is talking about. But in my case most customers ask me to have it done yesterday... So PC is/was no option for me. I think you can save the money a Mac will cost only when you have the time, knowhow and the manpower to do the PC thing. When you are in need for speed to get the work done, there is the Mac the faster/better solution - even when the hardware of the Mac is a bit slower/older. Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic3d Posted February 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 Hi Kikems, We invested 13,000 € in 10 X i7 PCs mounted in a rack cabinet plus a gigabite network, the same money invested in Mac give it near to 3 times less productivity. My scene creation Macs are Nehalem and the last 12 cores. I agree with Tom and Alex about OSX is more friendly for EIAS, but for render productivity PC's are far a better choice to me. Thanks Diego Wow 10*i7, that must be nice to work with. And how long on average does it take you to render one frame of your Lichtmond 2 video for example? In one of those i7. With the new EIAS 9 camera a asume you only have to have one slave folder in each computer regardless of how many cores? I am having a Hackintosh made with an i7 2600k in it. I'll tell you all how it goes. It costs less than a third of a real mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 Hi Vic, Work with this renderfarm is a pleasure, it is very simple and render like a rocket. Our average frame on Lichtmond 2 was like 12 min, many of them were 4 min and a few 30min. You have made the same calculation than me, in terms of productivity invest your money on PCs will run 3 times faster than if you invest in Mac. But it is true that I find it more friendly and flexible to create the scenes on Mac. In the screen shot you can see the 10 PC's slaves via TeamViewer on my oldest Mac, so you don't need keyboard or screen for the PC's, Very important to have a gigabyte network. I have a friend who has several hackintosh and he is very happy, here and we call "Pears" :) Un saludo! Diego 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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