I mean the performance is awesome but I am an still an artist at heart. Well, I saved a couple of my favorite comments about the machine for last. It runs circles around pretty much anything you can buy in the workstation category – desktop or mobile! It runs most of my scenes just as fast as my NVIDIA Quadro 5800! Really impressive work from those hardware guys. What’s also incredible is the new NVIDIA 3800M GPU that’s in there. It has four physical cores, but eight virtual cores show up in task manager due to the new hyper-threading feature. It’s awesome to throw a few million particles on the screen and watch all eight cores peg to 100%. Since Softimage is fully multi-threaded, I love the new fancy Intel Core i7 quad core CPU. I travel quite a bit so I’m looking forward to not having to tether my phone anymore.oh wait my new iPhone doesn’t tether! □ I’m still waiting to try a USB 3.0 device but I hear they are faaassst! And coupled with the Dell’s great power management software it gives me quite a boost in battery life when sitting on an airplane.Īlso, new to the M6500 is USB 3.0 for monster file transfers, and a Gobi 2.0 chip that will give you 3G access on any cell phone providers network anywhere in the world! I’m not quite sure how it works with SIM chips but I’m getting mine hooked up this week. Not only is it a fast little drive, streaming video or content off of one of these takes considerably less juice then having my two RAIDed drives going at it. This little thumb-sized drive hauls while using almost no power! Now, I have a terabyte of hard disk storage and this little mini SSD to go along with it. My previous Dell M6400 mobile workstation had two 500 gig hard drives RAIDed together but with the M6500 I found a third drive! It’s a mini SSD drive that uses one of the mini PCIe slots underneath the laptop. When the unit arrived, I must admit that I was wearing a pretty wicked grin. Recently, Dell sent me a pre-release of their latest M6500 mobile workstation to get my feedback before it hit the market. It’s also cool to know my feedback might be incorporated into products over time (I’ve seen a few examples) and that eliminating even minor glitches could offer a better customer experience with our software. My new Autodesk gig is a bit different but Dell still allows me to test hardware because as a power user, and someone who spends a lot of time in the field with customers, I have a pretty good perspective on what a 3D artist needs in a mobile workstation. One of my prior tasks at Softimage was the lead certification manager where I worked closely with Dell to test and qualify their newest workstations under some pretty extreme (AKA real 3D world) conditions. For those that don’t know, our software is used to make many of the films and video games you see today and is one of the officially certified applications for the Dell Precision family of workstations. Hello everyone, my name is Mark Schoennagel and I’m an Autodesk product evangelist focusing on the Softimage 3D product line. Dell Advantage for Teachers and Faculty Staff. Energy, Climate Action & Sustainability.APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift.APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure.APEX Data Storage Services Backup Target.SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP v.3.0 is available as a free download from the Softimage website (or as part of a complete CD-based training kit available for purchase from the same site. The SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP v.3.0 also includes six tutorials which provide instruction on everything from learning the user interface and mastering the integrated compositing capabilities, to connecting the SOFTIMAGE|XSI software to other applications in a 3D pipeline. However, as it is intended for non-commercial use, watermarks appear on rendered images. Users can access all features found on the advanced version, giving them the ability to create games content using the SOFTIMAGE|XSI real-time shaders, utilize the fully integrated compositing environment, render film-quality images with mental ray v.3.1 technology and save files. Specifically designed for training purposes, a free version of Softimage’s 3D nonlinear production software, SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.3.0, is available to download for use with the Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000 platforms.Ī successor to the popular SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.2.0 Experience CD, this software introduces a range of new possibilities for both professionals and 3D novices. February 2003 Softimage Offers Free Version of SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.3.0
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