10-02-2006, 04:31 AM
If you really need that much power and don't want to pay for it, buy 4 or 5 minis and install OS X server on one of them. Then spread the rendering task between the 5 machines using Xgrid. Xgrid will spread the heavy lifting between the other workstations and it is free to use. The only requirment is that you have a copy of OS X Server to cordinate the clients. 5 Minis and a copy of OS X Server on eBay will cost about the same as a basic MacPro.