Yeah Maya is a great looking modeling app too and along with MAX and Lighwave it's been around for a while and is widely known.  In another forum I was reading what others were saying comparing Carrara to Hexagon. I think I first tried to model in Raydream and wasn't terribly impressed so I never thought much about Carrara either - same thing with Truespace. I've always meant to check out the free modeling apps just for kicks but never got around to it :)

What's been interesting me though is the plethora of new low cost modeling apps that seemed to have come about more recently. Shade, Silo and now Hexagon come to mind. I just wondered what chance any of them had in gaining market share compared to all of the other modelling apps that are already out there. I've already mentioned how much I liked Rhino and considering it's a fairly affordable modeler I'm just surprised to see other apps coming out. That's not to even mention Cinema 4D and FormZ which are also decent and fairly low priced.

Man, there are a lot of modeling apps out there, I wonder how they can all compete with each other. I have to agree with what's been said though - choice of a modeling app is definitely very personal :)