DreaminGirl posted at 9:13PM Mon, 22 July 2019 - #4357791

Seriously?? Where the hell have you been the last few years? You really have no friggin clue what's going on in this community, do you? Just check out the announcement threads, that alone will give you examples aplenty.

I asked him that question to make a point: Hard data overrides emotional appeals and anecdotes based on what appear to be highly limited experience, lack of awareness of the situation, and a lack of awareness as to the scale of the problem Rendo is facing. Even if 1,000 posters specifically asked for it in this forum over the past 12 months, that's 1,000 potential copies of Poser sold, with perhaps (being way generous here) 1,000 more for shadow effect.. Rendo is going to need to sell more than 2,000 additional copies a year, every year, just to get usable growth - given the last income figures from Smith Micro's entire graphics division ($900k/yr or so if memory serves, for all of SM's graphics products combined), Rendo is gonna need to sell a lot more than 2k units a year just to keep things even-to-growing, and not half-starved like Smith Micro was doing.

I hope they pull it off.

Sure, but put them through prolonged high-end rendering, and they'll fry. Running a program and heavy use of a program are two different things.

Meh - the MacBook Pro I bought in 2013 and just got rid of grunted through almost six years of near-daily rendering abuse, and it still runs like a champ (albeit slower than my latest toy, which is nearly a year old now, and it shows no signs of deterioration in spite of the hammering it gets.) Most laptops on the mid-to-high-end are made to put up with similarly heavy loads generated by gaming these days. Besides, nobody is seriously rendering-out feature-length films in 1080p off of a laptop, FFS... For general hobbyist use w/ maybe 20-45 minute render runtimes at a go, it should do just fine.

Not much more to say, really. Let's give others a bite at the apple for a bit with their suggestions. This went well past being a debate, and maybe y'all should cool off a bit?

I'll check in tomorrow night-ish, if time permits. Have a good evening, y'all.