POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : New machine. : Re: New machine. Server Time
31 Jul 2024 12:16:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New machine.  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 13 Mar 2007 12:20:01
Message: <web.45f6dc6ef7e7b5fb731f01d10@news.povray.org>
"Karl Anders" <kar### [at] webde> wrote:
> have you considered buying one of those new Intel-based Macs? They run MacOS
> X, which is based on BSD Unix, and you can install Windows, too. There ARE a
> few problems with some programs written and compiled for PPC-Macs, and sadly
> POV-Ray is on that list. But there is a new compile of MegaPOV, which works
> fine - or so they say. For me it's all 3rd hand knowledge, I've got an old

I can't comment on its relative rendering speed but I've been perfectly
happy with MegaPOV 1.21 under MacOS X on an Intel MacBook (I expect the
PowerBook has more, er, power). The most recent version of Daz|Studio even
runs on it now, although sadly it's over to Windows and back for Poseray
(hint! hint!).

Bill


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