infinity10 opened this issue on Sep 26, 2006 ยท 28 posts
skeetshooter posted Fri, 29 September 2006 at 11:20 AM
In my brief exchange with e-Frontier recently, they did say they were working on a "universal" version of Poser for the Mac, which I presume will be incorporated into Poser 7. As all Mac users know who have tried it, any software written as a universal version will run 2-4 times faster on a new Intel Mac than its non-universal counterpart does on a G4 or G5 Mac. If, as I'm guessing, Poser 7 for Mac will also be 64-bit and adapted to multiple processors, then it will smoke like a roadrunner in a brush fire. I'm thinking 5 times faster, at least; a truly earth-shaking performance improvement that would turn anybody with a new Mac into a 3D animator, toying easily with 150MB figures and 1-2GB scenes. Windows users? Well, e-Frontier surely knows that most of its users are Windows (although Mac's share is growing), but the bulk of those users are likely to be much slower to move to Vista than Mac users are to move to Leopard (although Tiger already has Vista's capabilities), especially given the hardware demands that Vista is expected to have and Microsoft's history of laying bug-ridden eggs when introducing a new OS. Vista is expected to be a massive, ugly, tortured beast on the inside with a Mac-like interface on the outside. SS