At the Inter BEE 2009 conference in Tokyo Autodesk showed a technology demo and announced Smoke on the Macintosh platform with a price of $14,995 (U.S. suggested retail price). We take an exclusive first look at Smoke on the Mac and talk with the product managers and developers to answer all the questions you may have.
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The linux version is fairly multithreaded. It also uses the GPU for a good chunk of its rendering, though, which may be why they’re requiring a Quadro. If there are cores sitting idle, it’s usually because you’re disk or GPU-bound. It’s generally quite fast.
I wonder if Smoke supports running under Snow Leopard? I tried installing it on a 3G MacPro and it keeps crashing.