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#Particle FX

    16-Nov-94 13:23:12
Sb: #1820-#Particle FX
Fm: Pawel Bodytko 70733,644
To: Jim Jonah 73517,3532
Jim, >>>It may be the Novell Network that is slowing it down, last night it was 9 minutes per frame, today its 58 minutes! Woww! Yesterday I saw your message about the 9min (486 66) to 53 sec (PowerMac 6100) speed diferance and I started shopping for the PowerMac… If the ratio is 1:10 in comparison to 1:5 (Pentium 90) than I am seriously looking at changing the direction. Just a minute ago I got back from the Computer City and am more confused than ever. I saw PowerMac 6100 — 60mhz, 8M RAM, 230 M HD for $1,637. Another, 8100 — 80mhz, same RAM, 500 meg HD + CD — the price over $3700… What is going on… The 25% speed increase, CD, 270 M disk space + more potencial for expansion cost more than $2000?! On the PC side that kind of improvement would be worth no more than $400! Right now I am ready to put some money to work… Having both platforms does have some attraction (even if it creates some headaches) — but are we _REALLY_ talking 1:10 rendering speed improvement? How is the A:M file compatibility? Pawel