Re:Slow News Day or Apple Fanboy-ism (Score 1)

If you're a mac user, you've invested in mac versions of software, you want a quad workstation (and you're kinda loaded or consistantly bill a decent amount of hours) it's good news. The ability to run Cinema 4D (ILM and Disney may use Maya, but a lot of smaller folks do have other options) with rendering distributed to 8 processors to After Effects to Final Cut Pro or Flash on one machine plus the ability to author multimedia (like director) and/or web work and test on multiple OS on one machine, plus run windows aps you can't get for mac OS in windows on your mac is all very attractive. That may not be the typical large studio set-up, but if you're a small studio or Jack of all trades Mac based free lancer who does some 3D and/or video as part of the services you offer such a beast might actually pay for itself. You don't have to be creating Jurasic Park IV with hours of 3D animation to make use of processsing power. Some mac folks just need a few seconds of animation or even some still 3D art (that you can now afford to ad global illumination and not take 3 days to render one illustration). If you need a PC and a Mac and a workstation, you now have one workstation that runs OS X, Windows, (and I believe Linux). One dell -- one OS, one Mac -- 3 OS. People often overlook that when they compare costs.