Blender on iMac

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Anyone using Blender on the new iMacs ? Any glitch or problem ? Will be using mostly 2.5, and a bit of 2.49 if needed.

Thanks.
-Gian

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2.5 works fine. In 2.49 I sometimes do get visual glitches with buttons rendering in the panels and issues with the render window fully showing intill you click on it. It is perfectly useable though.

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Cool Thanks!

Almost ready then.

How is the performance with the ATI 4670 ? GLSL ?

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Yeah, I’m also interested about it.
Any heat problem when rendering? Is there enough power for huge print use (guess there is never enough tho).

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I was wondering how it worked on a Mac too.

I plan on getting a Mac Mini. It’s not that powerful. But still a little better than what I’ve got now.

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—Nevermind, Saw your thread. Sorry—

"If you don’t mind me asking. Are you using Nvidia or ATI?.

Thanks."

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Well make simple stuff to render… Rendering takes quite a bit CPU power (as any 3D). On a Mac Pro, working around in Blender is really not hungry matter, so it should also work on a Mac mini… You’re not intending to go for “real production”, do you? :wink:

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An ATi 4850 and also the same on an ATi 2600HD (think that was the number)

Richard

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Im pretty sure that ATI is worse for Blender than Nvidia, anyone want to correct me?
My quad core with an ati can sometimes be slower than my mac with a lower nvidia card… a bit weird…