estherau posted at 5:35PM Sun, 06 March 2016 - #4259582

I have 64 GB of RAM in my cylinder macpro which helps of course.

Not when it comes to Superfly, Iray, or Octane. Funny, I have never used 32 GB of Ram yet.

Look, let me be fair. I have been using Macs, professionally in this particular field for 7 years. I have to for work, it is part of my job.

Having said that I use it side by side with multiple windows machines, and combined the two Windows Desktop machines on my desk cost less, than the iMac that I am currently using. (It is faster than my Dual processor Mac Pro I retired.) Given my experience with both, I would never recommend a Mac for graphics work in this field. They just are not cost effective and lack the hardware to do the job right. If you are just going to use Photoshop, and don't mind spending the difference? Sure, no problem, you won't see a real difference. Rendering? That is a whole different story.