an0malaus opened this issue on Jan 25, 2021 ยท 9 posts
an0malaus posted Mon, 25 January 2021 at 6:56 AM
Hi fellow mac-heads, I'm trying to get a handle on what range of hardware and macOS versions mac Poser users are dealing with.
Obviously, not everyone will be on the latest macOS 11.x Big Sur or an Apple Silicon CPU.
There don't seem to be many statistics available for what folks are using, so if you can reply here, that would be terrific!
To start with, I'm running both:
Mid-2011 27" iMac 12,2 32GB AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB, macOS 10.12.6 dual monitor, Poser 11.3.818, Poser Pro 2014, Poser Pro 2012 & Poser Pro 2010.
Late-2013 27" iMac 14,2 32GB NVidia GeForce GT 755 M 1GB, macOS 10.15.7 dual monitor, Poser 11.3.818.
I have two older macs as well, but they're basically door stops or webcam platforms at the moment, despite having been top of the line when purchased.
I'm sure there will be folks with ancient and venerable systems running early versions of Poser. There is absolutely no shame in doing so or admitting it :-) I've been using Poser since version 1 came out, and the only reason I have nothing installed prior to 2010 is due to hardware retirement and OS incompatibility.
While mac users are eagerly awaiting a full release of Poser 12, it may turn out that there will be some platforms that could potentially be orphaned, due to third party software component support requirements. I see other software applications that will no longer run on my older OS, since support for that has been End-Of-Lifed by necessary components (Qt 5 being a case in point). Such things happen, and mac users may be more aware of this than others, when new OS releases break software that has worked for a decade. We also see our hardware superseded and unable to run the latest and greatest from vendors we've grown to rely on.
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