Who cares what Pixar uses. What do you use is all that should matter.
I work with in house software on Linux during the day, have a company Windows desktop at work, have a Mac Pro for desktop at home, have a home built firewall/router out of OpenBSD, have a FreeBSD server for a specialized task and have a Mac Mini running a home HTTP server with OpenBSD on it. They are all just computers to me. Arguing about which OS has prettier icons or which one has fewer mouse button clicks to perform a task is just silly.
Help the OP out by staying on topic. I will add that a Mac Mini with 8GB of RAM is less than satisfactory if you run Lightroom, export to Photoshop and back again for final editing with scanned 4000dpi medium format film which is unlikely for the OP but I'd thought I add something.
Last edited by tuco; 12-06-2011 at 04:15 PM.