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03/10/2004, 11:35am, EST
Wednesday, March 10th
Apple seminar reveals Pixar's switch to OS X, G5s
Pixar is switching to Mac OS X and will be using Power Mac G5s for its work, according to a MacNN reader who attended Apple's Uncompressed for Final Cut Pro seminar in New York on Wednesday morning. In his Keynote presentation, Apple's Don Peebeles said that Pixar has used Linux and Intel-based architecture in 2003, but that Pixar was switching to Mac OS X and G5 workstations for its production work: "Peebles went on to say that this switch was 'a move that no doubt made common CEO Steve Jobs very happy.' According to Peebles, Pixar challenged Apple to come up with a way to review HD quality video on the desktop at a reduced file size but keeping the quality. Of course the technology they developed (with Pixar) was based on Wavelet compression and named accordingly, 'Pixlet'. With this impressive technology, the new G5 systems and OS X's Unix underpinning, all the pieces were in place."
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We are talking about millions of dollars worth of equipment. I would guess that it would come in phases (financially the best way to go about it)...
In other news, congrats Apple!
is just another way of saying that the apple desktop is built on top of a dos, or unix in this case. much like dos on top of windows 3.0 or windows 98...