InfiniteMac OSx86 - View Single Post - Reliability of OS X in a real production environment (on non-apple h/w)

lanceomni · 03-25-2009, 08:56 PM

I use CS3 Master Collection on my rig and use Photoshop heavily. I may turn my computer off once every other week or so and I have had ZERO issues with the Adobe apps.

If your going to be using it professionally I would consider using the machine for only this and have an additional machine for personal or home use. Id fine tune your install until it runs stable with all the applications you use and then clone the drive as a backup so that if you run into issues you can boot off of your clone.

If you plan on doing any video production I would set your scratch disk and temporary files to a second drive. So that you can retrieve it from your backup or a second machine. If I am not in a rush I will actually purchase an external harddrive and keep all of my captured video, scratch & project files on it so that if my workstation goes down I can plug into a second and 99% of the time have no issues picking up where I left off. You will sacrifice performance but it is handy.

We are currently considering building a few retail install snow leopard (hopefully there will not be too many issues) hacks for video work. You have to way the difference between cost advantage and having support from your hardware/software companies. If im in a crunch at work and need to get FCP or one of our PowerPC machines back up and running I can call Apple. In my mind it would make a great backup workstation at a very affordable price.

*Monitors
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