Digital Home Thoughts: Pixar Switching To PowerMac G5 Workstations

The next popular animated feature film on the big screen may be rendered on Macintosh, according to MacNN. At a recent seminar for Final Cut Pro users, Apple representative Don Peebles let slip that Pixar intends to move its production architecture over to PowerMac G5 workstations running OSX. This makes a lot of sense since the G5 architecture has a very fast data pipeline and massive L2 cache. And RenderMan, the animation software used to create Pixar's animated films, has already been ported to OSX.

I find this story particularly interesting because I can still remember the furor caused more than a year ago when Pixar announced it was moving away from SGI and Sun Workstations to Intel based systems running Linux. Now as Yogi Berra would say, "It's deja vu all over again".