motorollin wrote:
Piru wrote:
Um, how about using a single PC to replace the farm of amigas?
Um, how about answering a perfectly good Amiga-related question instead of discouraging him? Maybe a PC would do it better, but if we all stopped using our Amigas for the things which other platforms do better then this site wouldn't be here.
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moto
To be Fair Moto... the Amiga was never that great for building Render farms... The Amiga served better as the set-up and control machine... leave the boring number crunching to cheap faceless whiteboxes!
Piru is quite right that the idea of using that many Amiga's now is a very wasteful idea;
1. Expensive, Amiga's are not cheap... networking them can get stupidly expensive too.
2. Dangerous, why stress a whole bunch of 15 year old machines which don't have much life span left for no reason.
3. Poluting, 20 Amiga's will burn 20 times more power than one modern PC.
4. Slow, 20 Amiga's will be much slower and probably output a lower resolution than a single modern PC.
5. Out of date software... 3D rendering software has come one leaps and bounds in the past 15 years.
If you have the money and the free sapce... then it would be an interesting peice of living archiology... but nothing more.
