Is AfterFX CS4 optimized for OSX/Inetl i7 yet?

[Taliesn Jones]

[ Jason Allen ] “I’m going to try and hold myself back, but even in getting the answer you wanted you can’t help being *a* rude and arrogant.”

My ,my, my , looks like you mercifully caught yourself about to call someone a bad name ( or the “a” serves no purpose ). We are relieved. 😉
Look , mate , at times of hard deadlines with a large project , in *this hyper-competitive* economy BTW, and needing time for more experimentation with a new Trapecode Suite of plug-ins ( the new more advanced *particular* in particular ) and originally being from New Yawk as an advertising design & commercial artist during the decade of the 1980’s ( yeah the *Decade of Greed ) , one can get impatient. ( So ,Yeah , I can be a temperamental artistic type when under pressure and in this marketplace. No sympathies here, I do just fine, thank you )
I knew that the Core2 Duo has only 2 cores w/ 8 GBs rack o RAM and i was asking about moving up to a 4 Core with 16 GB’s rack o’ RAM , then right out of the gate I get:
” You don’t have enough RAM to feed even the four physical cores in your computer, so the question of whether hyperthreading works is moot in your case. ”

Where did he get ” the 4 cores in my computer” from? Please explain? What am I supposed to take from that? Don’t bother with an upgrade I hadn’t bought yet? Simply saying that hyper-threading capability was not in AE CS4 yet , but multiproc performance will be substantial , or not. Why would this have been so difficult to say?

That aside , no , I didn’t immediately “get it” about why even a full compliment of the maximum rack o’ RAM would be moot so far as hyper-threading is concerned. I just needed to know if investing in the quad core Nehalem would be worth the performance. AE CS4 had clear warnings of being problematic with OSX 6.Obviously that was a sensitive question for an Adobe rep. To then assume that I hadn’t even thought of upping my pref settings was not only wrong , but rather presumptive & , yes , condescending regardless of how many times he’s been made to *suffer* though such blatantly ignorant questions from we great unwashed masses & digital aborigines

So right off the bat I was made to think I was getting short shrift of an answer and that I was now in for another one of these long dialogues to get at what could’ve been a one post response to which I *always* give glad thanks.

Walter Soyka understood what I was seeking. He *bothered* to explain about AE CS4 being about multiprocessors and not hyper=threading. This was a clear answer. What was so difficult?
That I commented that this could’ve been resolved from response one is a matter of fact and excuse me for daring to bring that to the attention of the 1st responder who’s a professional. It’s also not as if I’ve not encountered sensitivity about the short-comings of AE from Adobe representatives before during Q & A of live demoes here in the Wash.D.C. market.
I dunno , but where i come from to have one’s honest inquiry addressed as suchwith a wave of the responder’s hand while assuming I needed the fundamental checks I felt was rude. It cuts both ways , mate. So his response rubbed me the wrong way and , yeah , it got my Irish up and I over-reacted.

Walter Soyka understood what I was seeking. He got it and I was genuinely grateful for it.
This should be “end of story”.

Which brings me to your response.
“I’m going to try and hold myself back”?
What is this , “Oprah”?
Your 2¢ worth has been duly noted.
Feel better now?
Let’s move on now shall we.

[Pat Bray]

Plus point to this thread: There’s some good pointers and info regarding hardware upgrading for AE

Minus point to this thread: Taliesn Jones – must be a f**king nightmare to work with…