corel released a "carbon" version of bryce for mac Os X claiming that it contain the preview of things to come in the bryce 5 soft... i've download the stuff and test it and there's nothing new! did i miss something? any info welcome thanks mrtom

There is nothing new. Supposedly the app is a demo: save/export is disabled, and the feature set is the same as Bryce 4.1, although some things are broken. The only new thing is that it is 'carbonized' to work on OS X natively, instead of through the Mac OS 9 Classic environment. Supposedly, it doesn't even run on OS 9.

As I understand it ...one of it's features is that the new Mac OS is duel processor inabled, and this demo of Bryce is suppose to work on a two processor Mac system (as long as it has the newest OS) The previous and "current" version of Bryce cannot. that is the main difference from what I've read around the net. Boni

well, the current version of Bryce works fine on a multiprocessor, it just doesn't take advantage of it. And unless they completely re-wrote bryce 4.1 to be fully multithreaded (which I'm highly doubting), then the performance improvement should only be marginal. The big gain you'll see is using Bryce and some other program at the same time. Hopefully, the next version of Bryce will be niftier and will try to render multiple passes all-at-once with the multiple processors. I don't think that capability is in the 4.1.1 release, because that would be a major re-write.