Re: after effects future releases and Mac compatability

[anita sancha] "I am using a mac book pro, (best of) 2 core etc.. So at best a new Mac will do no more than this one does."

I don't know where you got this impression.

I have one of the new 8-core Mac Pros with 16GB of RAM installed. AE is a 32-bit application so each instance can only address 3GB of RAM, but I can launch up to 16 instances of AE on my machine (with hyperthreading on the new processors 8 cores are seen as 16 by AE) to render up to 16 frames simultaneously.

Of course, this uses all of the Mac Pros resources and makes it very unresponsive, so I generally only render using 6 of the 8 cores (12 frames simultaneously) and leave 2GB available to the rest of the system

I also have a Mac Book Pro with 4GB of RAM and the difference in render times between these two computers isn't even comparable. I'd say it's somewhere in the area of at least 10x faster on the Mac Pro.

The only reason I wouldn't upgrade to a Mac Pro (assuming you have the money) is if you think the hardware itself is going to be refreshed soon.

Darby Edelen