sucks it doesn't use Rendezvous. Why, in this day and age are companies insistant on just coming up with their own way to do things, when there are proven methods.

Also, unless there are unlimited grid licenses to do the rendering its a scam, and just a new way for them to make more and more money.

I read this the other day... um, didn't Apple just make this (or nearly make this) sort grid technology available at the OS level?

The Apple solutions comes from here:
http://www.apple.com/education/science/profiles/vatech/index.html
but I do not have the specific link.

Grid does support various systems... so they aint all bad, but it does seem to run on JAVA.

FROM the Grid site
Technical Specifications

Supported development languages: C/C++, Java®

Supported operating systems: Red Hat® Linux® (Version 7.3 or higher), Mac® OS X (Version 10.2.1 or higher), Windows® XP, 2000, 2003, NT 4.0

GridIron XLR8 requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4 or higher (JRE 1.4 recommended). The combined memory required for the JRE and the XLR8 Peer is approximately 10 – 15 MB.

All downloads are approximately 2 to 4 MB.

Xgrid would be fine for OS X, but they'd still have to find something for Windows. So by using a third-party solution, they have a cross-platform solution.

If having XGrid at the OS level is so easy to hook into, why aren't we hearing about many other Mac companies hooking into XGrid? We're not. That probably means it isn't THAT easy. And I don't think it's cross-platform which many companies care about a lot.

Adobe is so full of s***. I wish some independent Mac OS X developers would come along and rip the rest of their market share away from their S***** apps (yes, some of them are the best we have but they're still s***). Photoshop is powerful yet still a kludgy, non-native looking piece of trash, InDesign is a total hog with a bloody UI; it's horrible.

"If having XGrid at the OS level is so easy to hook into, why aren't we hearing about many other Mac companies hooking into XGrid? We're not. That probably means it isn't THAT easy. And I don't think it's cross-platform which many companies care about a lot."

Xgrid is pretty new, what the h*** makes you think "other Mac companies" will integrate it overnight? Please. And this "cross-platform" s*** is overrated. We need native apps, not this cross-platform half-baked c*** that Adobe pushes out every upgrade.

i'd say its pretty clear in the case of apps like Photoshop, After Effects and Illustrator that adobe suffers alot from history. Their codebase aint something you just re-write to run natively cocoa overnight. Also, its all about profits. What is the estimated plus+income because of a succefull re-write? I'd say most companies care much less about happy endusers, clean-stable-fast code etc. than they want us to believe...at least not as much as they care about profits, installed userbase and possible marketshare.
BTW, i happen to know that Discreet is looking into Xgrid...for different reasons.
Sorry if this went kinda OT.

And Maczealots are f***.

"And Maczealots are f***."

What does this have to do with homosexuals?