Re: Legal Question - So do I buy Adobe Win or Mac?

[Jason Jenkins] "If you use AE a lot, you want to run it natively on a 64 bit operating system like OSX"

Or XP or Vista, which can use pretty much as much RAM as you can throw at them.

I say "pretty much" because Vista maxxes out at 128GB. I think we're safe for a while.

Virtual machines are reported to run about 5% slower. Can you really tell the difference between 1 second and .95 seconds? Or 10 seconds versus 9.5 seconds? On a 1 hour render we're still only talking about 3 minutes. So virtualization is fine.

As far as Mac and Win, head to head with the same amount of RAM, performance on both is just fine. This is thing is a little faster here, this one a little faster there....but you won't find many-- any?-- threads about this any more because the difference just isn't that big a deal.

I just deleted the 90% of the post after here, because it just offered more data points repeating what I already said.

Shortest version yet: Vista 64-bit. All is well.

:-)

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