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June 8, 2005

MAXON SUPPORTS INTEL-BASED APPLE COMPUTERS

Following the recent official disclosure of the industry's best-kept secret, 3D software specialist MAXON Computer today is pleased to announce its wide-ranging support of the new Intel-based Apple Macintosh Generation.

MAXON, June 8, 2005 - MAXON CTO Harald Schneider stated, "Apple's announcement is good news for a cross-platform developer like MAXON. Since our products' source code is over 95% platform-independent, it can be ported very quickly. In addition, Intel has always proven to be a very flexible and dedicated partner."



Always thinking ahead, MAXON's development team has been making sure it is in a position to react to advances or changes in technology very quickly. CINEMA 4D has been leading a "secret double life" as an Xcode version for a while. To that end, the first internal Universal Binaries for Intel- and PowerPC-based Apple machines are already compiled in our labs.

Applications like CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint 3D demand a processor's full range of performance. So MAXON's professional 3D applications will definitely benefit from the additional CPU power. The combination of Mac OS X's convenient and well thought-out operating system, Apple's reliable benchmark hardware and Intel's processor know-how is the perfect match to give 3D professionals unrivalled freedom of creativity.

MAXON has consistently demonstrated its lead when it comes to the implementation of state-of-the-art technologies such as multiprocessing, Hyper-Threading, Dual-Core technology and much more. Most recently, MAXON was the first (and only, to date) to release its professional 3D modeling, animation and painting solutions for Windows 64-Bit.

You can find more information here:

http://stream.apple.akadns.net/

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html

About MAXON Computer
MAXON Computer is the developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions. Its award-winning products have been used extensively in the film, television, science, architecture, engineering and other industries. MAXON products have been used for and in Open Season, Monster House, Superman Returns, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Serenity, War of the Worlds, Polar Express, The Flight of the Phoenix, Hero, Van Helsing, King Arthur, Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Haunted Mansion, Star Wars 2-The Attack of the Clones, the On-Air Packages for Comedy Central, Monday Night Football, Discovery Channel Canada, Mega Movers, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, ESPN,NFL Network,TiVO, NBC, DirecTV, CBS NFL, Smart House, Fox Kids and many more. MAXON has offices in Friedrichsdorf (Germany), Newbury Park (CA, USA), Bedford (UK) and Tokyo (JP).