Very fun!
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Are there more ads like these with rhino?
I noticed that right when it was released, linked it here already 
I wonder if the McNeel team got some kind of heads up notice from Apple for beeing featured in that ad.
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Not really. They do ask if it is ok to show Rhino and we say “sure”. Beyond that it is a surprise.
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thanks for the reply, interesting. yeah, I guess they have to ask you for legal reasons before they feature your product in their ad.
lol, they are all acting as if they’ve never experienced a hardware update 
oh woow, ah okaaaay , oh greeaaat 
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I’ve seen these scenes quoted from tec youtubers - the frames with Rhino are now shown on Apple tec Nerd and fan channels around the internet.
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Next up: Grasshopper
Btw the compliment by  is well deserved McNeel team!
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I thought I spotted Rhino during the presentation, but it was so quick I wasn’t sure. So cool! Congrats, McNeel!!
What else you’d expect on a mac? Felt very natural
Wow! A pro for pros 
Less than one month age I purchased the max3pro. Oh well maybe next time.
Anya Freeman, Founding and CEO di Kind Designs.
3D-Printed Coastal Infrastructure
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I’m sorry, I don’t understand your comment.
Good to know - I will show the 19th second to our Rhino prospects.
Sorry Armin, I thought exactly the same like you and as as a part time mac user it felt very natural - that’s what I expect to see when I look at the mac
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Funny enough I just emailed McNeel Tech Support as I just learned about the new MacBook Pros - then thought to come to the Community Site only to see this as the first thread. Timing is everything.
I’m working on a 2019 Intel MacPro Tower that I over-splurged on years ago only to realize later that Rhino doesn’t need or utilize a lot of the extra power I was purchasing.
Anyone have thoughts on whether Rhino would work faster/better on the new M4, M4 Pro or M4 Max chips? I’d like to avoid my purchasing mistake this last go around. If there’s really no difference with Rhino’s performance between the three, that would be good to know.
I work in film doing Set Design, Architectural modeling, drafting and rendering.
Any thoughts?
Most reviews just look at the CPU performance. You mention that you also do rendering - then the new graphics cores are more interesting to look at. The reviews that do take the GPU cores into account all just compare geekbench scores which doesen’t tell the whole story. Looking at purely the raytracing performance with the Blender benchmark, you can see that the new graphics cores are performing really well there.
Here are results for the new M4 chips and you can see that the raytracing performance scales very well with more graphics cores. I would say raytracing performance is where the Max chips really make a lot of sense - if you need the performance. And keep in mind, that you get this performance in a laptop.
Compare that to a 4080 laptop GPU - Apple basically matched Nvidia there.
To be fair the 4090 desktop GPU performs around 10K points in that benchmark, so it doubles the performance. Of course it can only do that by pulling an insane amount of power from the wall. Though keep in mind how well the M4 graphics cores scale - that means that a potential M4 Ultra chip might perform about the same as the desktop 4090.
FYI this blender benchmark makes sense to look at since the Rhino renderer uses the same render engine (called cycles).
The progress that Apple engineers made since the M-series chips were introduced is incredible. Compare that to Intel, they have been trying to build a competitive discrete GPU for years but so far have utterly faild.
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Thanks for this. Very helpful. At the moment, I’m mainly doing modeling and using Arctic mode for occulsuion images in my drafting. I want to get into more rendering in the future which was leading me to actually consider converting to PC after over thirty years on Mac - simply because the software I was looking at - Twinmotion - seems to not support raytracing with Macs. But at the moment I can certainly get away with it while Epic works on that which the company seems to be doing from what I’ve read - even if there’s no timeline at the moment.
Lots to consider. I appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.
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