Also, from a hardware perspective, Apple is coming up with technologies
that definedly make image processing easier (fibre channel servers, the
upcoming network sharing protocols where your comp's hard drive becomes
part of one big shared networked drive). Apple is gaining recognition in
the film making industry as the budget, but definedly capable solution, not
quite where SGI is, but gaining momentum, and this sort of development is
going to trickle down (and has been trickling) to the customer market.
Out side of the high end software from discreet, flame and inferno. You wont really find any SGI equipment in film production any more. The biggest thing holding apple back in the film market is its 3d performance.
But thats speaking for the australian market, I think it would be reflective of the rest of the world.
Apple products certainly are not budget, but with the cost of shake being so much lower on apple hardware. The cost of hardware doesnt really come in the equation. And its so much easier to maintain than windows.
At the moment Linux is the best solution for large scale film production.
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