Following the recent official disclosure of the industry’s best-kept secret, 3D software specialist MAXON Computer today announced wide-ranging support of the new Intel-based Apple Macintosh Generation.
MAXON CTO Harald Schneider stated in the press release, “Apple’s announcement is good news for a cross-platform developer like MAXON. Since our products’ source code is over 95% platform-independent, it can be ported very quickly. In addition, Intel has always proven to be a very flexible and dedicated partner.”
MAXON’s development team has been making sure it is in a position to react to advances or changes in technology very quickly. CINEMA 4D has been leading a secret double life as an Xcode version for a while. To that end, the first internal Universal Binaries for Intel- and PowerPC-based Apple machines are already compiled in our labs.
Applications like CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint 3D demand a processor’s full range of performance. So MAXON’s professional 3D applications will definitely benefit from the additional CPU power. The combination of Mac OS X’s convenient and well thought-out operating system, Apple’s reliable benchmark hardware and Intel’s processor know-how is the perfect match to give 3D professionals unrivalled freedom of creativity.
MAXON has consistently demonstrated its lead when it comes to the implementation of state-of-the-art technologies such as multiprocessing, Hyper-Threading, Dual-Core technology and much more. Most recently, MAXON was the first (and only, to date) to release its professional 3D modeling, animation and painting solutions for Windows 64-Bit.
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I believe they were first for OS X, so this is not surprising. Excellent software — I wish I had it when I was doing orthopaedic animation, instead of Form*Z and ElectricImage.
And so it starts.
“MAXON CTO Harald Schneider stated in the press release, “Apple’s announcement is good news for a cross-platform developer like MAXON. Since our products’ source code is over 95% platform-independent, it can be ported very quickly.”
Huh? If it is 95% platform-independent, why is Intel a good thing?
And just how fast *is* that Mactel version compared to the Windows one?
Or the G5 one?
Intel is a good thing despite the software being 95% platform independent, because Intel has a history of delivering chips in HUGE quantities.
Therefore Apple can rely on them to deliver the numbers they wan,t so Apple can sell the machines they want, and the software people can then sell their stuff to these machines.
For god’s sake, PLEASE DON’T PERPETUATE THAT STUPID “MACINTEL” moniker. Ugh, that’s horrible.
the more these news will be able to be finally told to the public (lots of dual life major applications in these 5 years) be prepared to see AAPL skyrocket again.
BUY
PS
thanks to those who sold and allowed for one more windows of opportunity to buy low.
macintel, macintel,macintel
intelmac,intelmac,intelmac
aptel,aptel,aptel
intelple, intelple
intel inside!
do i want a dellintel or a macintel or a hpintel???
thelonius,
Mactel or Macintel is already ensconsed…
ENSCONSED I SAY!!!
ipodder i cannot imagine you have a single share of apple stock.
and you really think mdn is highly populated with so many stock buyers that your call to buy is going to effect the stock price one single penny???
Yep. Here we go. This Universal Binary capability, besides being the key to success in the Intel transitional period, is plenty exciting all on it’s own, eh? I’m pretty pumped on the whole scenario and on the ramifications for potential expansion in multiple directions, processor wise.
I think the ride is going to be both big fun and plenty rewarding. All aboard!
THis was FAST!
I think if more vendors announce there software has been ported for the binary’s for both PowerPC and Intel there will be a lot less worry about the whole thing. Great job Maxon!
STOP with the MACTEL/MACINTEL!
Wintel nominclature came into being because it was a way to describe a CLASS of machines that all shared the same attributes. Wintel is used so you don’t have say, “Dell/Gateway/Acer/Toshiba/NEC/Sony/ETC/ETC computers” They are all the same! Windows OS running on Intel hardware architecture. The Macintosh is NOT equivalent. There will be NO other hardware makers with a clone of the system. There WILL undoubtable be a unique Apple hardware architecture that will bear little resemblance to an the ubiquitous AT motherboard. In short, there will be just ONE Macintosh. So quit using the stupid Mactel misnomer. It’s not the same and it’s insulting. Let the PC trolls use it (and they will), but Mac users ought to know and make the distinction.
Interesting the mention of a FUD tactic by Hell and HP. The writing is on the wall:
Hell in time will loose major market share and be relegated to ever thinner margins to stay afloat.
HP has been loosing share and generally suffering from various very bad business decisions. They will slide faster now into the ‘Digital Equipment’ syndrome.
M$ will collapse under the weight of their bloat and inefficiency. Darwin/Aqua approach is the perfect marriage of Open Source and proprietary and M$ will now get a royal spanking with OX on Intel (AMD?) chips
Rock on Steve
Buy APPL!
Sparkman et al:
So…to differentiate between PowerPC Macs and Intel Macs, you suggest we use which terms?
Once upon a time, an Mac was a Mac. Now…I’m not so sure.
MacPhee….
When the PPC arrived in the Mac community, we made the distinction by saying 68000 Macs or PPC Macs. This is not the first time the chip or its manufacturer have changed on the Mac platform. We’ve gone from Motorola to IBM and from 68000 family to PPC. I don’t ever recall hearing anyone refer to Macorolas. Today’s situation is not really much different from the PPC transistion. I don’t have a problem with PPC Macs vs Intel Macs. I DO have a problem with saddling the compound Mactel/Macintel name onto the new Macs because that gives Intel equal standing in the partnership. Apple has already proven that it not dependent on the processor to deliver the Macintosh experience. It’s the OS that Makes a Mac. The Mac and Intel are not joined at the hip as are Windows and Intel. IMHO, we in the Mac community shouldn’t promote this terminology.
Macinhell….
Sparkman:
If not joined at the hip, where are they joined?
They can’t go back to Motorola/Freescale. No performance.
They can’t go back to IBM. No performance, competing interests.
The didn’t use Sun/Sparc (most of the same problems as IBM, I imagine.)
There are a few others like AMD and Via that they didn’t use.
They didn’t say “alternate CPU technology”. They said “Intel”.
Therefore Mactel.
The Mac is not what it was last Sunday. As I have said before, Mac OS X on Intel had better absolutely smoke any Windows box at anywhere near the same price, or it is all over. Why, in the face of the evidence of the last 21 years, will anyone choose a Mactel over a Wintel if the Mactel is slower? Longhorn will arrive, eventually, and you know what? It will be secure (enough, apparently the patchers do not care particularly about this particular OS specification) and Mac-like (enough) and will run all the legacy stuff (enough) and any Mac program will now be really easy to transfer to Windows what with all the Altivec instructions removed etc., so…things look pretty bleak from my vantage point.
Mike
Mac user/purchaser since 1986. Will I own an Mactel? Unknown. I am certainly not buying anything ’till I see the whites of their eyes. I’ll keep my now “state of the art” G3 (Rosetta compatible) machine running until then.