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    • it's because you chose server grade 4TB SSD and 1.5TB of server grade RAM ... prices for those are insane anywhere you look.monospaced
    • I know that all of this is expensive. Didn’t complain. Just expensive anyway.NBQ00
    • and the exclusive 64GB GPUs are more powerful than almost anything you can buy at the moment that already costs thousands.monospaced
    • Some SGI machines cost up to $250K+ in the 90’s and had like max 16GB Ram?NBQ00
    • MB actuallymonospaced
    • I bet the people at Pixar use 2015 iMacs.Hayzilla
    • They switched to Mac Pros in 2014, and yeah, probably got some iMac Pros soon after.monospaced
    • ^ I did actually Google it after I wrote that. I couldn't find any info of what the day to day animators use. The final render is probs done by a supercomputer.Hayzilla
    • You could have got it up to $64k for effect if you added the software bits!Hayzilla
    • All that power just to watch pornhubautoflavour
    • The people at Pixar are not using Macs. They use third party renderers that depend on Nvidia graphics cards.CyBrainX
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