Polyloop - 3D & 2D Forums - View Single Post - Intel-Mac-Carrara

Mindbend · 30th January 2006, 17:17

I emailed Eovia directly and they said they are not publicly announcing any sort of timeline for the Universal Binaries. In fact, they did not even acknowledge that they would ever provide UBs, but they also did not say they wouldn't.

Based on that I'm assuming eventually they'll churn out UBs, but it may be a long while.

Thomas,

No stability problems using Hex/Carrara on the Intel Mac. I also just got Luxology's Modo. Hex runs better via Rosetta than Modo, but both are slowish. Carrara is the slowest, but I've always thought Carrara was sluggish. I can tolerate it because I'm mostly a hobbiest right now in 3D. If using Hex/Carrara were a big part of my job, I would NOT want to run it via Rosetta right now.

I've run Hex/Carrara on my iBook and my Dual G5 2.7. I'd say the iBook feels smoother cuz OGL is native, but rendering and subdivisions might process faster on the Intel iMac. I haven't run any tests to be sure, but it feels that way.

I'll try to run some official tests using the built in project files so you can verify on your end as well.

30th January 2006, 17:17	#10 (permalink)
Mindbend Vertex Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3	I emailed Eovia directly and they said they are not publicly announcing any sort of timeline for the Universal Binaries. In fact, they did not even acknowledge that they would ever provide UBs, but they also did not say they wouldn't. Based on that I'm assuming eventually they'll churn out UBs, but it may be a long while. Thomas, No stability problems using Hex/Carrara on the Intel Mac. I also just got Luxology's Modo. Hex runs better via Rosetta than Modo, but both are slowish. Carrara is the slowest, but I've always thought Carrara was sluggish. I can tolerate it because I'm mostly a hobbiest right now in 3D. If using Hex/Carrara were a big part of my job, I would NOT want to run it via Rosetta right now. I've run Hex/Carrara on my iBook and my Dual G5 2.7. I'd say the iBook feels smoother cuz OGL is native, but rendering and subdivisions might process faster on the Intel iMac. I haven't run any tests to be sure, but it feels that way. I'll try to run some official tests using the built in project files so you can verify on your end as well.