Re: looking for good rendering machine which is portable

Actually, the memory stuff is a bit complicated.
For example, in OSX 10.4+, c4+ even though
it's a 32bit app, can allocate ~3.5GB of memory
for itself. If a machine has 16GB+ RAM,
it, an instance of c4 RQ, AE, AE render
engine... can all be run at the same time with
very little paging/swapping.
In XP32, things get more competitive in memory
allocations + management -- even if the
3GB switch is used c4 might only get a couple
of hundred extra MB (or much less, if at all)
as opposed to not using that since your graphics
card on PCI will eat up a huge chunk of that space.
I won't go into Vista/V64/XP64 stuff right now
because I just ate.
-Shin