A Justification for buying an 8 Core MacPro

[Harbourmaster]

The big news with After Effects CS3 is that it's not only written in Universal code (native for both PPC and Intel Macs), but it has a special feature called "Multiprocessing" which is enabled in Preferences. There is a check box that enables "render multiple frames simultaneously." When checked, AE spawns a process for each core called "aeselflink" and grabs up to 3GB of real memory per process. It's like creating a "render farm" within a single Mac.

http://www.barefeats.com/octopro4.html

[Lux Interior]

"Render into the octocore those things which are the octocore's."

[Phy]

It should fold like a maniac-- and that's a humanitarian effort!
If I had one, I'd overtake you in the rankings in just a few weeks!

[Jp!]

Octo-vius, Jedediah, and Gigantcore.

[Jimmypoo]

except that it maxes out at 16GB of RAM vs. the X Serve at 32GB.

So, at 3GB per core, that means three go virtual, or all do, for 1GB of their work.