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Q: Shake on a Mac Mini (seriously)
My trusty dual G5 is soon going to give up the ghost and I'm looking for a replacement. Since Shake and FCE are the most intensive apps I run, I was wondering about the real world performance between the new Mac Pros vs a Mac Mini. I don't think Apple will ever optimize Shake or FCE for multi-core processors, so I was thinking about getting a Mac Mini. It's faster than my dual G5 on paper and 1/6 the price. I don't need bleeding edge performance - I'd settle for "a tad faster than my old dual G5".
Would this work?
Am I missing something?
Serious replies requested.
Would this work?
Am I missing something?
Serious replies requested.
Dual 2Ghz G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Posted on May 12, 2010 4:33 PM
by Eisen Feuer,Solvedanswer
Mike, Shake 4.1 has always been multithreaded, and can use up to 8 threads (in turn it fills out 8/16 logical cores while rendering on my machine). You can choose the number of available threads in the Globals tab or define the number of threads to be used in the screen that comes up before any sort of render.
The reason you can choose to use less threads is because more threads = more RAM needs simultaneously, and when I'm doing something crazy like using the Warper to straighten out a 100 megapixel panorama, I have to render using just one core or the render will come out without the Warper having been applied.
The reason you can choose to use less threads is because more threads = more RAM needs simultaneously, and when I'm doing something crazy like using the Warper to straighten out a 100 megapixel panorama, I have to render using just one core or the render will come out without the Warper having been applied.
Posted on Jun 2, 2010 11:13 AM