pasithea

I'm currently rendering 1900 frames of one of the most complex scenes I've ever completed in Maya.

At the same time on the same machine, I'm listening to music and editing video in Premiere with no apparent slow-down. Photoshop and Illustrator are open in the background but not in active use.

I guess it's having Premiere again that most reminds me just how unhappy Windows used to make me. There's no way in Hell I'd be doing this on a PC.

In fact, running more than one major application at a time was always a nightmare and generally resulted in a system reboot. If they DID run at the same time, it would typically be unusably choppy and slow and have me in constant fear that it would crash and burn.

About this time of the year 5 years ago, Jeff gave me a 400Mhz G4 Cube to replace my 1.8Ghz Windows computer after I'd had a particularly bad season of Windows crappiness.

The sick thing was... Except for brute rendering power, the 400Mhz G4 was superior to the 1.8Ghz Windows machine in every single way. I found I could edit videos and burn DVDs at the same time. On the Windows box, it was always 'close everything else and pray' when trying to burn disks.

Now that I have all my big apps running natively on my IntelMac, it's just fantastic. I have the same brute processing power as the Windows machines without the CRAP overhead of running Windows. All this stuff is just smoking and it all runs flawlessly.

I fell in love with OS-X because it was a pretty shell that didn't get in my way and let me run all the applications I need and at the same time, it was unix and would let me shell-script to do all kinds of stuff.

I'm still in love with OS-X because it's still awesome. After 5 years, I've found very VERY few things I dislike about it. At work I still use Windows on one machine. It's XP and... Windows is still a fucking flaming piece of crap. Running more than one application at a time is still dicey and the UI frequently bogs down and is utterly useless. I hate using it.