MacNN reports that at a recent conference an Apple representative said “Pixar has used Linux and Intel-based architecture in 2003, but that Pixar was switching to Mac OS X and G5 workstations for its production work. [He] went on to say that this switch was ‘a move that no doubt made common CEO Steve Jobs very happy’… Pixar challenged Apple to come up with a way to review HD quality video on the desktop at a reduced file size but keeping the quality. Of course the technology they developed (with Pixar) was based on Wavelet compression and named accordingly, ‘Pixlet’. With this impressive technology, the new G5 systems and OS X’s Unix underpinning, all the pieces were in place.”