>Are you certain all the settings were identical?

Actually used the same ini file (1280 x 1024, AA 0.3)..
But I couldn't say if the Dell ran out of RAM... The scene is three 
interlocked Julia fractals with some processor-intensive finishes 
(reflection/refraction, et al).
Best,
d.

"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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> Dennis Miller <dhm### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
>> Just rendered a complex scene under 3.7 beta 25 64-bit
>> under Vista Ultimate 64-bit under Boot Camp on a Mac Pro, 16 GB, 8-core 
>> 3.0
>> machine.
>> Render Time: 6' 36"
>
>> the same scene on Win XP SP2,  Dell 2.2 GHz, 2 GB RAM:
>> 3 hours 6 minutes!
>
>  If my calculations are correct, that means that each core of the first
> machine is over 3.5 faster than the processor in the Dell.
>
>  Are you certain all the settings were identical? Maybe those cores *are*
> that much faster, but...
>
>  If everything is equal in both cases (including the resulting image),
> then rather cool.
>
> -- 
>                                                          - Warp

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