I’ve always been a PC type of chap but I’ve recently opened myself up to a bit of Mac usage hence ended up buying a 27” iMac and it WORKS unlike most PCs. Anyway, running Max through Parallels isn’t great and wondered what a version of Max designed to run on OSX would be like?
Oh PLEASE Autodesk!!!
M.

Max 2012 SP1 64bit - started in Max R2.5 ( Athena) far too many years ago…
Vista 64 (yes, yes… need to get Win 7)
HP XW8600 Xeon Quad core 3 GHZ
Nvidia GeForce GTX 465 1GB GDDR5
10GB of male sheep

Our whole team wanted to switch to mac in office but 3dsmax is main problem. Cinema4D is great alternative for max specially in TV (motion graphics). But for many old max user learning new software is hard.

So i wish max & motionbuilder for mac

i already switched to mac in home with Macpro / macbook pro 15”

Mac Pro (early 2009) | dual xeon quad core | 10GB ram | SSD 80GB system | 3TB stripped Raid | 512MB Nvidia GT120 (bcz quadro for mac sucks)
Mac Book Pro (latest 2011) | Core i7 | 4GB Ram | 500GB Harddisk | 256 ATI

Max user since 2002 | switching to cinema4d (motion graphics) / maya (character animation)

Lots of folks here running Max on Mac through Bootcamp - might be a better solution than Parallels.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

i also try 3dsmax on bootcamp. and i was amazed to see how much time max2012 took to load vs c4d on mac. max took like a min to open on windows. c4d on mac hardly take 3sec to load

Mac Pro (early 2009) | dual xeon quad core | 10GB ram | SSD 80GB system | 3TB stripped Raid | 512MB Nvidia GT120 (bcz quadro for mac sucks)
Mac Book Pro (latest 2011) | Core i7 | 4GB Ram | 500GB Harddisk | 256 ATI

Max user since 2002 | switching to cinema4d (motion graphics) / maya (character animation)

I agree, I’ve switched to mac because of the “just works” factor and better workflow. The only reason I keep a PC is MAX and I would be happy to dump it. The guy next to me is working on a massively expensive PC workstation and the downtime per year can only be measured in weeks. MAX for MAC would be a real productivity boost.

And no, it’s not performing very well on Parallels. That’s not an option for me, neither is rebooting every time when I need MAX.