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Permalink Reply by Philip Kronqvist on March 5, 2011 at 7:03am

Yeah, I'm also curious...

Philip

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Permalink Reply by Ernest McCrank on March 5, 2011 at 2:10pm

Hi Philip,

 

I just got one:)

And I just took V5 for a quick spin. All looking good. Fast, no graphics glitches at all. As mentioned, a quick spin where I morphed some fairly complex objects, and was pleasantly surprised with the speed of morphing and meshing.

HTH.

 

Ernest

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Permalink Reply by Philip Kronqvist on March 6, 2011 at 12:12pm

Congratulations :-) Do you use Rhino OS X or Windows Rhino (bootcamp)? My MBP is one year old already, but does a fine job on both operating systems. I prefer OS X though...
Waiting for the Grasshopper and Maxwell plug-ins to make it to the Mac side...
Enjoy your new Mac :-)

Philip

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Permalink Reply by Ernest McCrank on March 6, 2011 at 1:34pm

Thanks Philip! Yeah, it's a really nice change (it's so damned quiet! and it's noticable that the room isn't being pumped full of positive ions).

I've set the computer up so that work is on windows (bootcamp), and leisure is on OSX. I've barely played with iRhino yet, but am looking forward to it. I'm so familiar with regular Rhino (and have lots of windows plugins) that I can't see changing over for some time yet.

 

BTW - I just ran the holomark test in V4 (I don't currently have the x86 version of V5 installed  - yet), but since this began asking about the video card, I figure it's legit to share results here:

Holomark 1.22
 Score: 6267    Clocked time: 79.78 sec  (Total: 93.16sec)- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   GPU1: 19.36 sec.   GPU2: 34.59 sec.   CPU1: 12.65 sec.   CPU2: 13.18 sec.
System:- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Apple Inc.  MacBookPro8,3Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2720QM CPU @ 2.20GHz1 CPU(s) with 4 Cores at 2.201 GHz  (total: 8 LogicalProcessors)
AMD Radeon HD 6750M  with  1024 MBDriver: 8.812.0.01920 x 1200 x 4294967296 colors
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium    SP 0.0   64-bit7.91 GB RamRhino v4 sr8 32 bit (build: 20100401)HoloMark 1.22
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Created by www.holografisk.com

 

Cheers,

Ernest

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Permalink Reply by Philip Kronqvist on March 7, 2011 at 12:39pm

Thanks for the Holomark test results! Looks good!

I don't actually use Rhino OS X that much as those two important plug-ins are Windows only (for now), but I prefer OS X as an operating system and really like the way the Mac Rhino interface is heading. It's so easy to use track pad gestures and hitting the screen edges for macros (hide/show toolbars, layers and object properties, and so on) - I don't even miss the middle button pop-up.

 

Philip

 

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Permalink Reply by Ernest McCrank on March 8, 2011 at 2:36pm

Yeah, it's pretty cool for sure. I've not setup any gestural macros or anything (yet), but it certainly looks promising. The more accustomed I'm becoming to OS X, the more I'm wanting to stay in here to work in Rhino. But I think I'll still be carrying a mouse around with me for a while!

 

Cheers,

Ernest

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Permalink Reply by Philip Kronqvist on March 9, 2011 at 12:10pm

I also normally use a mouse - or a pen tablet (except when travelling) - with my right hand and using my left hand for gestures on the track pad... so I can "pop up" all my toolbars at once with a left hand gesture (they automatically disappear after starting whatever command)... and also, for instance, maximize a viewport with another gesture, and so on.

I even bought an external keyboard and track pad - and a big monitor - so now my laptop is also my desktop (I just got rid of my old desktop PC). Great :-)

...But, it would of course be nice to have a newer, faster MBP...

 

Philip

 

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