It's actually much worse. I use SolidWorks (parametric 3D solid modeler for mechanical design) and my company pays around $4k per seat, and it requires you to use a specific SolidWorks-certified GPU driver, which means you are forever stuck with whatever bugs that version has. It's an awful situation. My last laptop (Dell Precision M4800) had graphics issues with docking and undocking and sleeping and waking, but I couldn't update the GPU driver because it would break solidworks. Fun!
How much does 3d Studio max cost? I haven't used it since the 90s so even the name might have changed. I thought it was thousands.
Re:Blender 2.80 release candidate
by lkschubert8 on Friday July 12, 2019 @12:29PM
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Last I checked its 1500 a seat... a year.
It's free software and it's the best there is. Even a commercial software package that you'd pay 100's of dollars for would be worse in the compatibility dimension that the poster is lamenting.