What's your work-hardware like?

[Mike RB]

2.8ghz p4, 1gb ram, nvidia fx?, 19" monitor, no internet.

Mike

[mrunion]

P4 2.8 HT, 512MB RAM, nVidia 5600 Fx, Dual 17" Monitors, Wacom Graphire Tablet (not used much), Windows XP Pro

[NanoGator]

Originally posted by Mike RB
2.8ghz p4, 1gb ram, nvidia fx?, 19" monitor, no internet.

Mike

That kind of surprised me. Why no internet?

Gotta ask, are others like that as well?

[carbon8]

Main workstation is:
A custom asus laptop, 2.4 P4 with wireless card, ati radeon dual monitor config running at 1400 x 1050 res with 1 gig of ram. Internal 40gig drive and a 80 gig firewire drive for jobs. Second monitor is a 17 inch mag. This puppy has two usb ports and two firewire ports. Always attached to a intuos2 tablet.

Other workstation is a dual PIII server converted to a workstation with 1 gig of ram and a geforce 3 video card. Twin 80 gig hard drives and a 17 mag monitor.


Oh yeah, both running windows xp pro, the laptop has a web server on it and coldfusion server for testing web dev.

[NanoGator]

My workstation is a dual Athlon 1.4 gig, with 1 gig of RAM. Two 19" CRT monitors running at 1600 by 1200 each. Canon Scanner. 12 inch Aiptek Tablet, but that's a hand-me-down-that I bought ages ago. DVD burner. Internet connection (1.5 meg if anybody's that curious.) Plus I bought myself a laptop to do my email etc with. Win2k.

I should mention, though, that I work with spherical video more than I do 3D. I do Lightwave work once in a great while, but primarily I make demos of my company's software/hardware. Most of my hardware is scavenged from other projects. I'm at a small company so we're not real strict about IT stuff. I'm pretty much able to install anything I want, provided I don't bring the network down and invite policy to be written. ;)

[Mike RB]

The official reason is to keep our work network seperate from the big bad outside world. A benefit that comes along with it is it reduces distraction. We do have some internet boxes around, for checking email and finding references for stuff, they just arent our workstations.

Mike

[chrisWhite]

Well, I'm not a big studio by any means, just a small three person video production company just starting out, but here's what we got:

Main Edit System-

Athlon XP 2800+
1 Gig RAM
Matrox Parhelia
21" flatscreen
19" old secondary monitor
DVD Burner
200+ Gigs of hard drive

CG System (also my primary computer)-

Athlon XP1900+
1 Gig RAM
ATI FireGL 8800
21" NEC Flatscreen that is just beautiful, chose it instead of two worse screens. Run at 1600x1200
Wacom Intuos 2
160 Gigs of hard drive
CD Writer

Effectively a render node system/my sister's system-

Athlon XP1900+
1 Gig RAM
21" Flatscreen
Not sure on the wrest of the specs.

Edit\Win XP Pro on all these and DSL for internet connection

[telamon]

Dual Athlon MP 2000+ +
1 gig DDR PC2100 +
Quadro4 980XGL.
Monitor LaCie 19''
2 HDD
Tablet AIPTEK (not installed, I hate it)

[Mattoo]

... I'm surprised they shelled out for this myself:

Dual 3Ghz Xeon P4 :buttrock:
GeForceFX Quadro (can't remember which)
1Gb Ram

... and tooooo much internet :eek:

[JeF]

Main workstation:
2 x AMD MP 2200+
2 x 1 Go ECC reg DDR.
1 x MSI K7D
Custom server box with sound insulation and big psu
Dual screen at 3200x1200 over a quadro
Intuos tablet
Win2K sp4
---> Home made / perfectly stable

Devices:
Canon In/out devices and cameras
Nespresso coffee system (the most important part)

Ooh! And of course a violet dongle little thingy.
:surprised

[Kvaalen]

Originally posted by NanoGator
Two 19" CRT monitors running at 1600 by 1200 each.

I'm just wondering... how many other people work at a high resolution? I usually work at 1152 by 864. I used to work at a really high resolution (I guess it's just because I thought it looked cooler) but now I just can't stand it. I'm just interested to know what others work at and why. :)

[Keiyentai]

....My system sucks sooo much caompred to these lol.

CPU:1.7Ghz Celeron
Video: ATI Radeon 9000 with Catalyst 3.8 Drivers
Monitor: Old 15" 13.5 viewable with a max Res of 1024x768
RAM: 384MB PC133
HD: 40GB with 10GB slave...2 GB left total
Internet: 56k Oh ya where surfing now!
OS: WIndows XP Pro with SP1 and latest Updates

Man i need to upgrade....
MOBO capable of: 3.06GHz with HTT and 2GB of SDR or DDR 2700

[NanoGator]

Originally posted by Kvaalen
I'm just wondering... how many other people work at a high resolution? I usually work at 1152 by 864. I used to work at a really high resolution (I guess it's just because I thought it looked cooler) but now I just can't stand it. I'm just interested to know what others work at and why. :)

I work at that because it gives me more room for my Lightwave buttons. I also like having the extra pixels to see wireframes etc. I can work at lower resolutions, but i end up spending more time swapping tabs and zooming in. I went out of my way to get a laptop that does 1600 by 1200 because of that. It really does mean a productivity boost for me.

[Mike RB]

I work at 1280x960 or 1600x1200. It bugs me when I see people working with 1280x1024!!! arrgh.

Mike

[T4D]

Dual Montor both at 1280x960, Dual AMD, Gforce MX 2 ( Yes updating that soon :) , tablet, 1 gig ram, 120 gig HD , WIndows XP Pro with SP1 and latest Updates

Runs Lightwave wonderful Crashes on close and the other known bugs but stable as it comes:thumbsup:

[JeF]

Originally posted by Kvaalen
I'm just wondering... how many other people work at a high resolution? I usually work at 1152 by 864.

Wow, for me it's the oposite. I wonder how much are "working" at lower resolutions.

I used to work at a really high resolution (I guess it's just because I thought it looked cooler) but now I just can't stand it. I'm just interested to know what others work at and why. :)

May i ask you why you can't stand it anymore? And by the way what's your screen size?

I think it's all about screen size and how far you stand from your monitor. 1600 and higher are typically the best resolution "productivity wise" for anything 19'' or higher.
But hey, it depends how you use your workspace: i'm sure that if i'm standing 10-12 foot away from my monitors i will lower the resolution a bit. :)

Another important question nobody mentioned is the refresh rate of the monitor. How many of you are working at 70-80 (or less)?

[JeF]

Originally posted by Mike RB
It bugs me when I see people working with 1280x1024!!! arrgh.

Still exist in the cg industry?

1.25 square pixel is fun if you like ovalish spheres and so.

:wavey:

[Keiyentai]

Dual screen at 3200x1200 over a quadro

HOw could some one work at the res?! The letters would be like MicroMachine size!! heeh Take a maganafying glass. "hmm ah there's that stray point!"

[JeF]

Originally posted by Keiyentai
HOw could some one work at the res?! The letters would be like MicroMachine size!! heeh Take a maganafying glass. "hmm ah there's that stray point!"

Ooops meant 3200x1200 on 2 monitors (1600x1200 each).

It's fun to work with, especially for lw panel. I also like big viewports. But from time to time i use Nvidia dualview to turn it into two seperate monitors (for high poly scene renders better). When i use dualview i put all the lw panels (+ win2k bar) on one screen and lw over the other.

I wonder if those who work with dual monitor settings prefer one monior splited over the two or two distinct monitor sharing the same desktop (nvidia dualview)?

[Julez4001]

I envy you MikeRB
Internet is a big distraction...I probably get more done if not for it.

[milqman]

Whats wrong with 1280x1024?

[LittleFenris]

Well, the 3D machine is a Dual P3 600Mhz with 512 MB of RAM, some oldass ATI Rage card, no sound card, 3x 8 GB HDDs, and a 19" monitor. :shrug:

Our video editing stations however are Dual 1Ghz MAC G4s with 1 GB of RAM and dual 22" CRT monitors. (soon to be replaced by Dual 2Ghz G5s with at least 2 GBs of RAM) :buttrock: :applause: I still hate MACs though...so finicky. (sp?)

Oh yeah...and DSL internet connection and noone restricts what I install on my machines...I do the installing!! I would probably get A LOT more done w/o the internet though. :banghead:

[Keiyentai]

Whoa my machine is almost better then some one elses...whoa..thats scares me cuase mine is like bottom of the line for CG work lol.

[wozzyke]

I'm working on a calculator if I put mine next to you guys.

I'm working on a cheap AMD 1600+ portable
with 512meg RAM with 32meg shared for my stupid S3 graphics card.
I'm running WinXP pro
have ADSL internet connection

edit: 15 inch TFT resolution 1024X768 because it's the maximum

and cant stand how slow my computer works :surprised

[LittleFenris]

Originally posted by JeF
I wonder if those who work with dual monitor settings prefer one monior splited over the two or two distinct monitor sharing the same desktop (nvidia dualview)?

I use 2 19" monitors with one desktop. I run an nVidia GF4 Ti4200. Man you guys run really high resolutions. 1600x1200 and I am squiting to see anything...too hard on my eyes. I run 1024x768 at work, and I believe 1280x1024 at home (resolution just higher than 1024x768). :shrug:

[Mike RB]

hahaha:
Whats wrong with 1280x1024?

what is the aspect ratio of that?

Mike

[Mattoo]

As the man said, 1280x1024 won't give you accurate results as the aspect is not square (except on some? TFT monitors).

Draw a pixel perfect circle in photoshop and whip out your ruler and take a look. You'll find it's slightly squished.

You should use 1280x960 for a square aspect.

[LittleFenris]

Originally posted by Mike RB
hahaha:
Whats wrong with 1280x1024?

what is the aspect ratio of that?

Mike

Icons and text get too damned small for me at that high of a resolution. :blush:

[JeF]

Originally posted by VWTornado
Icons and text get too damned small for me at that high of a resolution.

Wow you run 2 x 19'' at 1024.. I'm impressed.. Really.
How far away from your monitor you stand?
Do you have headache? Myopic?

[LittleFenris]

Originally posted by JeF
Wow you run 2 x 19'' at 1024.. I'm impressed.. Really.
How far away from your monitor you stand?
Do you have headache? Myopic?

I run them at 100 Hertz refesh rate and I sit like 2-3 feet away. What is weird about that? :)

(my work PC that I'm at most of the time is at 1024x768 and its 85 Hertz)

[JeF]

Originally posted by Mattoo
As the man said, 1280x1024 won't give you accurate results as the aspect is not square (except on some? TFT monitors).


I'm not sure either about the TFT monitors, will check.

[Mattoo]

Just did a quick Google to check I wasn't spouting shite. Here you go:

Why not to use 1280x1024 with a CRT monitor (http://www.dansdata.com/danletters010.htm)

It's the second subject down titled "Oblong images".

[JeF]

Originally posted by VWTornado
I run them at 100 Hertz refesh rate and I sit like 2-3 feet away. What is weird about that? :)

(my work PC that I'm at most of the time is at 1024x768 and its 85 Hertz)

Hehe, nothing is weird when it comes to personal choice (except non-square resolutions). :wise:

100Hz here also. Great for the eyes.

[Keiyentai]

1024x768 at 60hertz cuase my montor goes nutty anything higher.

[LittleFenris]

Originally posted by JeF
Hehe, nothing is weird when it comes to personal choice (except non-square resolutions). :wise:

What resolutions are square? Also, wouldn't it be ok if you run a nonsquare resolution if the end result will be TV or DVD anyways?

100Hz here also. Great for the eyes.

Are you being serious here? :) I just turned this POS work video card to something higher than 1024x768 (to test) and it was really hard on my eyes...whys that? (it forced me to downgrade my refresh rate also BTW).

[JeF]

Originally posted by VWTornado
What resolutions are square? Also, wouldn't it be ok if you run a nonsquare resolution if the end result will be TV or DVD anyways?

Screen length / screen height = 1.333333'

LCD screens with 1280 by 1024 resolution, though, aren't actually 4:3. They're all 5:4, as far as I know; a 17 inch 1280 by 1024 LCD will probably have a roughly 338 by 270mm viewable area. As a result, their pixels are still square.

Interesting.

[Mattoo]

Originally posted by VWTornado
What resolutions are square? Also, wouldn't it be ok if you run a nonsquare resolution if the end result will be TV or DVD anyways?

All the other standard resolutions are square, although there are others monitors will support that aren't normally selectable in you Display Properties. Some games allow you to run in those resolutions.


Are you being serious here? :) I just turned this POS work video card to something higher than 1024x768 (to test) and it was really hard on my eyes...whys that? (it forced me to downgrade my refresh rate also BTW). [/B]

Generally most consumer graphics cards (even Quadros) won't look good with too higher refresh. For instance, if you ran 1600x1200 at anything above 85hz you'll notice it get blurrier.

It's all to do with the quality of the RAMDAC on your graphics card apparently. On the 3DLabs cards, such as the Wildcat series, the RAMDAC is of a better quality and can handle that much bandwidth.

Much more than that I don't know, but you can try it out. Go from 75hz to 85hz to 100hz. You'll notice it get less flickery (obviously) but also blurrier.

[JeF]

Originally posted by Mattoo
Generally most consumer graphics cards (even Quadros) won't look good with too higher refresh. For instance, if you ran 1600x1200 at anything above 85hz you'll notice it get blurrier.
...
Much more than that I don't know, but you can try it out. Go from 75hz to 85hz to 100hz. You'll notice it get less flickery (obviously) but also blurrier.

Strange. 100 Hz work pretty fine here at 1600 (not blurred). But i have to admit i have to go down to 85Hz when using dualview mode (crisper).

[toddler]

Hmm...home: shuttle mini chassis 1 Athlon 2200+ 512M RAM, 21" sun CRT.
(LW/painter/photoshop box(and games)

work: 1 compaq w6k P4 Xeon, 2.4G. 1G ram. Linux.

And, ah, a 24" Sun LCD. I soooo love my work monitor....

[Ramon]

I'm on a Dell dual xeon 2.8 ghz with 2 gig ram and 2 x 30 gb scsi 10,000 rpm hard drives. My video card stinks!- 32 mb ati. I might have to go to a 128 mb Nvidia but, this is working for now.

Merry Christmas!

[LittleFenris]

Originally posted by Ramon
I'm on a Dell dual xeon 2.8 ghz with 2 gig ram and 2 x 30 gb scsi 10,000 rpm hard drives. My video card stinks!- 32 mb ati. I might have to go to a 128 mb Nvidia but, this is working for now.

Merry Christmas!

Did you run out of money after buying all that cool stuff so you have no money for a video card? hehe Very nice setup other than the ATI. ;) What type of Dell do you have to buy to get dual xeons and 2 GBs of RAM?

[Keiyentai]

....I want a 24" monitor!! ....

[cgman27]

P4 2.4 1.5 gig o Ram, XP, Wacom 9x12, dsr-11 for tape work, Dual 120gig ATA100's + some externals, a ge4 5200 fx && ge4 ti 4600 for the four monitors + production quality TV monitor.

Must say, Avid work is a dream in this environment.

[chrisWhite]

At 1600x1200 my monitor is style fairly easy to read, but again, it's a nice monitor, my dad and my sister both can't stand that res on theirs, so it's probably a combination of both my young eyes and having a good monitor. My only complaint is that it won't go above 85Hz.

Edit\ Forgot to mention that the reason I run so high is because I'm not on a dual monitor system the more room I have for some apps the better (PS, Combustion and LW to an extent). Photoshop is horrid on one monitor, especially because if they would have done the interface right it would be fine, and no I don't mean to insult Adobe, great product. But coming from Corel and switching to Adobe was awful because Corel managed to get roughly the same amount of tools all packed much more compact and IMHO better for the workflow. On two monitors PS is perfect, but Corel can run in an Adobe like mode to work nicely on two monitors but Adobe can't run like Corel does. At least that I can see, granted I'm fairly new to PS.

[Keiyentai]

....I wana know how you guys are affording theres quad monitor set ups with 3k vidcards and multiple 120+gb hdds.....

[m_luscombe]

G4 867mhz 1.5GB RAM, AGP 64mb Geforce3, 2 32mb PCI Radeons, OSX 10.2.8

Athlon 2400XP 1.5GB RAM, AGP 128mb Geforce4 4200, WinXP Pro

1 x Viewsonic 19", 2 x Samsung 17"

(All 3 monitors hooked up to the Mac, 1 hooked up to Mac and PC with Belkin Soho KVM Switch, and the machines are networked together with the DSL. The best of both worlds =)

[TuroAzja]

AthlonXP 2400 Mhz ;
768 MB DDR RAM ;
Gainward GF 4200 128 MB VIVO Agp x8;
2x 80 GB Seagate with 8 MB Bufor ;
MSI KT4Ultra 400 RAID ;
LCD EIZO 757 and CRT Nec 19" FE991SB

[Stone]

Amiga4000
68060 cpu, 50mhz
66mb memory
Retina z3, 4mb graphics gard
48gb hdd, ata66

Pentium 4, 3.0ghz HT
1 gb dual channel 400mhz
radeon9800pro, 128mb graphics card
2x 74gb raptor hdd, sata150 raid0

19", 1280x960 85hz monitor

/stone

[proton]

My work hardware is crap....but my home hardware is a killer BOXX system...I'll send specs when I get home :)

[chrispo]

That make me feel cheap, I scraped enought to buy Lightwave, never mind a quad monitor setup. Though 2 is plenty for me!

[JeF]

Originally posted by proton
...but my home hardware is a killer BOXX system...

Awk, i envy you.. I did mount every workstation i had but i admit BOXX stuff might be the only one i might buy one day.

The problem is there is no retailers over here.

:scream:

[liquidik]

Mmmm...I'm on the same boat as proton.. Crap at work (dual 450 mhz p3, 17" monitor, 512 mb, 10 gb hd, though we have a nas and file server), and super hardware at home: P3 3ghz HT, 1 GB, 3 x 36 GB Cheeta 15K, quadro fx 1000, 24" sony widescreen crt :bounce: :bounce:

[loqutos]

I work at Nellis Air Force base, Las Vegas, Nv. and we have Core Microsystems with dual 3.6 Xeon processors, 4 gigs of ram, and two 256 ram video cards...dual .22 dot monitors, cd+dvd burners, 9" wacom drawing tablets and.....I just got them to agree to buy us all Lightwave in addition to our standard software (Studio Max).

Loqutos

[juanjgon]

My workstation: P4 2.8 Ghz. 1Gb RAM, 40 Gb HD, Geforce2 main graphics card + TNT2 PCI auxiliar card, one Hitachi 21" monitor + one HP triniton 20".

My server: Athlon 1200, 1.2 Gb RAM, dual 80 Gb HD.

My renderfarm: five P4 2.4 Ghz. and four Athlon 2400 all with 1 Gb of RAM, generic graphics cards and 20 Gb HDs.

Regards,

[Ramon]

Originally posted by VWTornado
Did you run out of money after buying all that cool stuff so you have no money for a video card? hehe Very nice setup other than the ATI. ;) What type of Dell do you have to buy to get dual xeons and 2 GBs of RAM?

Actually, I would have never chosen that video card. However, I bought it through Dell refurbished. I saved a TON of money on what I new system with the same specs would have cost (saved about $1,400). The only problem was that you could only buy what was available. At the time, this system was very sweet except for the video card which I knew that I would replace someday. Who knows, maybe after Christmas, the prices of the FX 1000 cards will be discounted.

Merry Christmas!

[Locutus]

Workstation: Custom built
P4 2.8GHZ
512MB DDR RAM
128MB nVidia GeForce4 ti 4200 w/AGP 8x
Pinnacle DVD500 Video Card w/Premiere
60GB HHD System drive
160GB HHD Storage drive
CD ROM Drive
CD/DVD Writer
250MB Zip Drive
21" Intergraph CRT monitor running at 1280x1024
WinXP Pro

Laptop: Dell
P3 1.1GHZ
512MB RAM
32MB nVidia GeForce2 Go
40GB HHD
250 MB Zip Drive
DVD ROM Drive
15" screen running at 1024x768
Win2000

24 Student
Workstations: Custom built
P3 800MHZ
128MB RAM
64MB nVidia Geforce 3
20GB HHD
CD ROM Drive
19" flat screen CRT monitors running at 1280x1024
Win2000

(Donated to us)
3 - Editing
Workstations: Custom built
P3 500MGZ
512MB RAM
128MB graphics card
Digisuite LE video hardware w/Premiere
20GB system drive
120GB striped storage drives
19" flat screen CRT monitors running at 1280x1024
Win2000

This is just my lab, there is a second lab that is identical to mine.

[Ramon]

Originally posted by VWTornado
Did you run out of money after buying all that cool stuff so you have no money for a video card? hehe Very nice setup other than the ATI. ;) What type of Dell do you have to buy to get dual xeons and 2 GBs of RAM?

Oh, the type of Dell is a Precision 450. I believe you can go up to 4 gigs of ram. That gets really expensive though because as you probably know, to get to that max, you have to install 4 x 1 gb dimms.

[sadmanstudio]

So... I think my replay will be funny... :p

My home PC has:
CPU - Celeron 400 Mhz
VideoCard - TNT Riva 32 Mb
RAM - 512 Mb SDRAM
Monitor - LG StudioWarks 57m
Resolution - 1024x768, 32 true color
OS - WinXP SP1

Yap.. this's my RENDER FARM..... :applause:
...and I run LW 7.5 on it. :thumbsup:

So what you think? I hope this situation will change when I'll buy new my PC...

[scroll-lock]

at work - dual Xeon 2Gig, 2 gig Ram, no video card, no internet
at home - AMD 2600+ 1Gig ram, Nvidia Geforce4

[LittleFenris]

Originally posted by scroll_lock
at work - dual Xeon 2Gig, 2 gig Ram, no video card, no internet

How the heck do you see what you are working on? :)

[JeF]

Originally posted by VWTornado
How the heck do you see what you are working on? :)

He probably means he does not have any extra graphic card, as a lot of server/workstation motherboard allready have vga onboard.

I also have one box without any screen or extra graphic cards. I mostly use it via VNC.

[Ramon]

Originally posted by scroll_lock
at work - dual Xeon 2Gig, 2 gig Ram, no video card, no internet
at home - AMD 2600+ 1Gig ram, Nvidia Geforce4

Huh? No video card? I would imagine that it's tough to see what you're doing without a video card.

[NanoGator]

Originally posted by Ramon
Huh? No video card? I would imagine that it's tough to see what you're doing without a video card.

He uses the force.

Me personally, I'm 733t. My keyboard only has a 1 and a 0. (and a backspace.)

[Ramon]

Oh,... the force! Well then, that explains it! LOL

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Zarathustra]

I still hate MACs though...so finicky.

huh? If by finicky you mean can't run all those 3rd party plugs and apps and games meant for Intel then yes, it is finicky. My only crashes since OSX were by either the upgrade card or ATI/Modeler bug. B.X. (before X) was a 3-crash-a-day minimum. Can't move to Panther because LW 7.5 won't play nice with it yet (if ever since 8 is coming).

Main:
G4 w/ Dual 1ghz card
1.5 gig ram
2x AGP
Mac Radeon 8500
2 19" CRTs (I stretch Modeler across both screens)

Farm:
G4 with single ghz card
1gig ram

sometimes working 9600 w/ G4 400 card
768mb ram

Argue all you want, I still don't see LCDs matching CRTs. Close, if you sit juuust right and don't move...maybe.

I know I'm probably going to be the only Mac guy chiming in on this thread, but I like butting in. :D

[CosmicBear]

Originally posted by Zarathustra Can't move to Panther because LW 7.5 won't play nice with it yet (if ever since 8 is coming).[/B]


AAAAAHHHHH!!!
that could explain it. new to lightwave (since about 7 hours - what a christmas-present :D expect lots of questions soon! ) and i started to think i am too stupid for lightwave. :surprised

anyway, i'm on

Mac DualG4 1GHz
1 GByte RAM
GForce MX4
19' 1280x960

[AndréNozawa]

Toshiba Satellite Laptop
P4 2.0 GHz
512 MB memory
60 GB internal and 120 GB HDD external
15" TFT
DVD-RAM/RW/R
GeForce 460 GO 64MB
Internet ADSL 26 M

[LittleFenris]

Originally posted by Zarathustra
huh? If by finicky you mean can't run all those 3rd party plugs and apps and games meant for Intel then yes, it is finicky. My only crashes since OSX were by either the upgrade card or ATI/Modeler bug. B.X. (before X) was a 3-crash-a-day minimum. Can't move to Panther because LW 7.5 won't play nice with it yet (if ever since 8 is coming).

I know I'm probably going to be the only Mac guy chiming in on this thread, but I like butting in. :D

Finicky meaning that things will work or not work depending on the mood of the computer at the time. Like right now, even after a clean install of OSX 10.2.8, my MAC at work will burn DVD-Rs pefectly and will burn CDs, but it will not see those same DVDs and CDs that it burned AT ALL. They just don't show up on the desktop at all. :banghead: I put them in something else and they all work perfect. wtf That, and I can't open any .dmg files to install stuff from the internet. :shrug: The other MAC setup the same way works perfectly. ugh. And yeah, with OS9 it was at least a 3 crash a day minimum...at least OSX is much more stable. I still get Final Cut Pro quiting unexpectidely sometimes.

And yeah, you MAC LW users are few and far between. ;) I have LW on a PC right next to my MAC at work.

[toddler]

Originally posted by VWTornado
Finicky meaning that things will work or not work depending on the mood of the computer at the time. Like right now, even after a clean install of OSX 10.2.8, my MAC at work will burn DVD-Rs pefectly and will burn CDs, but it will not see those same DVDs and CDs that it burned AT ALL. They just don't show up on the desktop at all. :banghead: I put them in something else and they all work perfect. wtf That, and I can't open any .dmg files to install stuff from the internet. :shrug: The other MAC setup the same way works perfectly. ugh. And yeah, with OS9 it was at least a 3 crash a day minimum...at least OSX is much more stable. I still get Final Cut Pro quiting unexpectidely sometimes.

And yeah, you MAC LW users are few and far between. ;) I have LW on a PC right next to my MAC at work.

Sounds like the one box has some issues. I've never had a problem burning anything, same for dmgs. (thats on 1 tibook and 1 iLamp with superdrive). I have many friends with tibooks and other PBs, never heard of any of them having those problems. Not saying you don't by any means...have you looked in the logs to see if anything obvious is there? Are you formatting the disk before you do the clean install? (I know clean 'formats' the drive, try running one of the disk repair apps on it, just not anything by norton..:))

I love my macs....they've never been finicky, I cannot say the same about my PCs.

Now if they would port LW to linux or solaris, i'd be a HAPPPPYYYY camper.

[CG.p]

2.2 Ghz AthalonFX-51
GeforceFX5950
Dual 19"

[Rei Ayanami]

Sony PCG-FX801 lappy

14.1"TFT
ATI mobile 8mbs gfx
1400+Athlon XP

sucks really.

[pdrake]

have to quash any platform wars right away. i have a pc also, but for pure workforce, i gotta go mac.

1 dual 2g g5 10.2.8 1.2g ram
1 dual 1.25 g4 10.2.7 1.2g ram
1 g4 450 10.2.7 1g ram
1 9600 w/g4 800mghz upgrade os9.2 1g ram

never have any problems and none of them are finicky. can't say that for all macs, but if you know how to configure them then you'll be okay.

perry

[lightwaveman200]

Athlon 2000xp,
640MB Ram.
XP professional.
ATI radeon 7200 pro.
17" samsung monitor.

[Tesselator]

4 Dell Precision 450 4Gig Ram, Dual 3.06 Xeon (looks like 4 in HT :)
2 Dell Precision 650 4Gig Ram, Dual 3.06 Xeon
1 Dell PowerEdge 6400 8Gig Ram, Quad 933 P3 Xeon
1 Amiga A4000T Toaster/Flyer/PhonePax/TBC/WFM/etc., 136MB Ram, CPU: 040 50
8 Dell Precision 410 (left over from the previous 24 box renderfarm) Dual 850 P3, 1gig ram (up for sale or give away to friends/needy students) But I'm not really using these for work so I guess they don't count. Nor the walk-in closet stuffed full head-high with older Mac boxes PPC <800Mhz Nor all the other antiquated systems I keep in storage :) like the C=64 /128 and A500 /1200 stuff hehehe... But I thought fun to mention.

[Zarathustra]

pdrake: I thought the ram ceiling for a 9600 was 768mb

[Remi]

P4 2.66 overclocked to 2.8
other stuff
2 21" monitors
12x12 wacom
other stuff...
mouse
keyboard
wrist pillows
pictures here and there
other stuff
toys everywhere
other stuff


can you tell i'm not a computer dude....I just like to animate and model.....is that ok?:)

[NanoGator]

Hehe.

I forgot to mention I have a laser printer. I like printing off stuff, drawing on it, then scanning it back in to be used with my models.

As for office toys, I have the NX-01 flying over my monitor, and somewhere I've got a transformer.

[schuubars]

Workpimp:

Case: Lian Li PC65
MB: MSI Delta KT6
CPU: AMD XP 2400+
Memory: 1Gb, pc 2700 Kingston Hyper X
GFXC: Ati FireGL X2
Sound: SB Live 5.1
HDD: 2x Maxtor 120Gb S-ATA 150(Raid 1) 2x IBM ATA 133, 80Gb

other stuff:
TFT: Claxan 19"
Wacom Intuos2 A4 regular
mouse,keyboard,printer ;)


Renderpimp:

Case: No case :(
MB: MSI KT4 Ultra
CPU: AMD XP 2100+
Memory: 1Gb noname 2100
GFXC: Ati Radeon 9700pro (softfiregl X1)
Sound: N/A
HDD: 2x IBM 80Gb ATA 133

[pdrake]

Zarathustra, you might be right. i haven't turned on that machine in a couple of weeks. i know it has 12 ram slots and i have all of those full. i'll have to check that out. and it has 6 pci slots. that's the main reason i keep it upgraded.

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