The other night I finished putting together an HD video. When I started the final encoding, Final cut pro x gave me the opion to farm out the rendering chors to other macs on my network ( I only have one for now) This sparked a question. Could I scrounge craigslist, ebay, or where ever, and get myself 4 or 5 used mac mini's hook them up to a gigabit switch and use them as a sort of ghetto rendering farm?
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faster set up
Truth be told, I have no idea which would be a faster setup. What I do know is used mac mini's can be had for around 300. Less if I get lucky. A new mac pro is out of my price range, and used one close to 2000. so 4 mac mini's would set me back 1200 plus the kvm so I only have to buy one keyboard and use a spare mouse and monitor I have in a corner. (that is unless I can run a mac mini headless)
Truth be told, I have no idea which would be a faster setup. What I do know is used mac mini's can be had for around 300. Less if I get lucky. A new mac pro is out of my price range, and used one close to 2000. so 4 mac mini's would set me back 1200 plus the kvm so I only have to buy one keyboard and use a spare mouse and monitor I have in a corner. (that is unless I can run a mac mini headless)
that is not a bad idea. But sure you would need to get the latest mini with a good chip? But i can see where your coming from, i think it would be a wicked idea.
But when you think about it...my iMac is quad core with 12gb. Sure you will need a lot of minis to match that?
But when you think about it...my iMac is quad core with 12gb. Sure you will need a lot of minis to match that?
Forget the ram, this is really only for the CPU. And who knows, surely 5 CPUs beats one quad? Especially if they're C2Ds... That's 10 cores...