wolf359 opened this issue on Sep 06, 2015 ยท 31 posts
Male_M3dia posted Sun, 13 September 2015 at 7:41 AM
estherau posted at 8:38AM Sun, 13 September 2015 - #4228048
thunderbolt is okay externally i've been told (not quite as good as internal but not bad). well lets not guess what pixar are actually doing ie are they really throwing away their shiny macs that they used last year for their animations? People who use macs quite like them I've found. So anyway I've emailed Rob Cook to ask, and maybe he'll get back to me. I got an away message from him until the end of this month. I'll keep you posted if I find out anything. Okay, back to your iclone that doesn't work on macs. Love esther
Who is guessing? The article says they are licensing Nvidia tech and incorporating into their software for rendering. They going to be buying nvidia hardware. If apple doesn't provide machines that use nvidia hardware, they simply won't be bought. The most obvious solution is nvidia's render farms which do not require a mac or pc at all.
Also considering that apple isn't supporting CUDA, dropped out of the alliance to provide a uniform GPU api spec (Vulcan i believe) in favor of their Metal api, it makes sense for Pixar to pull out of apple hardware for standard equipment that will do the job of accelerating their rendering.