Re: OS/platform advice

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

I don´t want to promote XP64bit as the holy grail,
I meant that one should definitely run a test on a
(cheap) 64bit box prior to moving over completely.

Regarding Photoshop and the other 32bit apps,
it´s maybe just that I´m unhappy with the current
state of development, seems everyone making the
business decisions decided to wait for Vista with
their 64bit ports (except Softimage, thanks for that)
and we´re now somewhat stuck with legacy stuff
not coping too well with large scenes and filesizes,
which in a way is quite a showstopper and slows
down development and artistic freedom quite a bit.

Blazingly fast CPU´s but no way to feed them reliably...

Cheers

tim

P.S: I didn´t suggest a dualboot because rebooting sucks.
Get a monitor DVI switch instead (if you can find one that
supports DualHead DVI 23"-30" flatscreens, ah wait, there
is none yet. But at least everything is dongled and licensed
to death correctly and all apps got a nice facelift to fancy
lately (>AE), who cares about memorylimits then?)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dyter08(at)yahoo.de>
To: "Tim Leydecker" <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: OS/platform advice


> Guten Tag Tim Leydecker,
>
> its exactly what I have here on my desk, but XP64 realy s***s and I
> could not find any advantage when running (until it kept crashing for
> the lack of drivers...). So better stay with the 32bit XP.
>
> I have my system dual boot, once XP32 and Suse10.1 and it works fine
> and installation was rather easy.
>
> --
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>
> am Montag, 28. August 2006 um 23:22 schrieben Sie:
>
> > Hi Kris,
>
> > The cheapest way to test things without sinking too much
> > money would be to go for an AthlonX2, AM2 socket and
> > 4GB Ram, should be around 600 Euros, add 150 Euros
> > if you take two 2GB Dimms instead of 4 1GB DDR2 Dimms.
>
> > Some 200 Euros for peripherals and chasis and another
> > 120 Euros for that mandatory XP64bit license should do.
>
> > Personally; I´m incredibly p**ed off about all the current
> > incompabilities, softwarelimitations and especially those
> > famous known limitations nobody cares to fix but simply
> > flags as "unsupported". I´m not even sure wether Adobe
> > officially supports XP64bit at all either?
>
> > Other than that, I don´t know. I long for a more convenient life.
>
> > Cheers
>
> > tim
>
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Kris Rivel" <kris(at)krisrivel.com>
> > To: "XSI List Server" <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:54 PM
> > Subject: OT: OS/platform advice
>
>
> > > I'm looking to maybe buying a new workstation soon and I need some OS/platform
> > > advice.  I'm a bit torn between Linux and Windows (and possibly MAC).  I've been
> > > using PC/Windows for years.  I've always preferred Windows simply for its
> > > convenience.....It can run anything out there.  I need it to do this because I 
> > > will
> > > use just about any tool or plugin I can get my hands on.  I hate to be limited 
> > > due
> > > to OS concerns.
> > >
> > > I would love to take the the plunge and go the Linux route but a big problem for 
> > > me
> > > is no Photoshop (not sure why the hell Adobe STILL doesn't have a Linux version
> > > out).  I know I can use a separate machine for that but I was looking to avoid 
> > > that
> > > if possible.
> > >
> > > Mac is possibly an option but again, there are some compatibility issues there.
> > > Lots of software out there can not run on MAC. Being that I'm an XSI user, I need
> > > to make sure I can quickly utilize any plug-in, addon, shader that becomes
> > > available and not worry about compatibility.  I also don't know if I can get used
> > > to the different keyboard, mouse layout stuff.  I know there are workarounds for
> > > all this but it basically all comes down to simplicity and quick execution for 
> > > me.
> > >
> > > Also there is the whole 32bit vs. 64bit issue.  I would love to go 64bit but that
> > > also shrinks my compatibility pool as well.  Anyway, just looking to get a little
> > > advice.  I'm a freelancer who works from my home studio mostly now.  I'm not a 
> > > big
> > > code guy either so scripting to do things like move files and make folders is 
> > > just
> > > stupid, slow and not fun for me :-)
> > >
> > > Any info is greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Kris Rivel
> > > Freelance 3D Artist
> > > kris(at)krisrivel.com
> > > www.krisrivel.com
> > >
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