Sure, they have to force their AMD Opteron processors to conjure up all that flashy «ooh» and «aah» stuff, like, say swishy - whizzy
magic - spell effects, or the impressive orange glow
of dragonflame, but if you can't make the texture
of Fiona's shimmery dress capture the light properly, if the audience don't truly feel they can reach
out and caress that silky
fabric, then the animators might as well all shut down their DL145 ProLiant servers, pack up their HP nx6125 notebooks («based,» it says in the film's fascinating production notes, «on AMD Turion 64x dual - core mobile technology to streamline a variety
of production activities») and go home.