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Daniel Buck
05-07-2009, 02:28 AM
My setup at work :D

http://404photography.net/wip/work_01.jpg
Perry Bennett
05-07-2009, 02:31 AM
jealous!

Are those 22's or 24's?

What kind of computing power you got there?
Daniel Buck
05-07-2009, 02:38 AM
three 24" monitors

The workstations are duel processor quad core (8 cores in each machine) with 8 gigs of ram each machine, laptop is core2 duo 2.5ghz with 8 gigs as well. Running Linux, XP 64, and Vista 64 (laptop). Not sure the detailed specs on the processors, they're fast though :-)
Dave Verna
05-07-2009, 05:45 AM
i do 3d autocad all day long, I know the feeling - w/ 2 24" monitors and a 17" laptop all chugging along

nice setup
John Hegg
05-07-2009, 08:19 AM
Daniel and Dave,

What manufacturer and model #s are the monitors?

John
Dave Verna
05-07-2009, 08:41 AM
My company uses Dell's - apparently for the *stellar* service contract...lol
the last 2 I have are dell 2408's I believe.
Daniel Buck
05-07-2009, 12:45 PM
John, one is a Dell, one is an NEC (quite nice!) and the other I'm not sure. I like teh Dell's, they are reasonably priced, and seem to work pretty good. the NEC's are expensive, but nice.
Steve Stein
05-07-2009, 10:46 PM
Daniel,

All that gear could be replaced by one Mac. See the legal copy ad on Apple http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/ ;)

Steve
Daniel Buck
05-11-2009, 04:24 PM
not quite sure what you mean Steve.
John Hegg
05-11-2009, 05:23 PM
Dave, Dan,

Thanks for the information.

John
Steve Stein
05-11-2009, 10:23 PM
not quite sure what you mean Steve.

Just a dig at Vista and Windows in general. Even though I have a PC with XP, love my Mac laptop 10x more.
Daniel Buck
05-11-2009, 10:41 PM
Just a dig at Vista and Windows in general. Even though I have a PC with XP, love my Mac laptop 10x more.
actually, we run Linux for most things :) Only reason I've got the extra windows workstation there is to run a program that only runs in windows, not linux (or mac)

We do have some Mac workstations in the studio, but they aren't greatly better or worse as far as problems and performance go (accept for Nuke, our compositing package, which I believe after testing was shown to be faster on Linux), At least that's just what I've seen/heard in the studio, I've not used one myself :-) Alot of laptops at the studio are Macs, but those are pretty much just producers and clients, the real work gets done on linux and windows ;)
Dave Verna
05-11-2009, 11:35 PM
I agree - mac's inability to handle 3d rendering software and all sorts of autocad packages leaves it in the dust - IMO