Apple 15-inch MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz review
As far as upgrades go, the top-of-the-line 15-inch MacBook Pro's makeover is far from extreme, but we're not going to complain about a free speed bump.
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First Look: Apple's unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro review
It took Apple a while to finally get around to updating the 17-inch MacBook Pro with a single-piece aluminium shell, but the wait was more than worth it.
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Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited 2009 review
This is the first new release of the Stitcher panorama-creation software since its original developer RealViz was bought by 3D developer Autodesk in May last year.
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Boris Continuum Complete 6 review
The headline new feature in the Boris Continuum Complete 6 is 3D Objects, which extrude and animate text and vector shapes – replicating tools previously found only Boris Red and Boris Blue.
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Autodesk ImageModeler 2009 review
ImageModeler 2009 extracts 3D information from photos to construct accurate models and scenes, to which you can apply realistic textures taken from the image.
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Daz Carrara 7 Pro review
Carrara 7, which is available in Express, Standard and Pro editions, aims to offer a fully featured 3D suite at an affordable price. We’ve looked at the Pro version here.
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Akvis Sketch 8.5 review
Akvis’ Sketch is the only plug-in we’ve seen that produces decent pencil drawing from images, though it’s let down by a wonky workflow and some bad bugs.
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Digital Anarchy ToonIt Photo review
ToonIt Photo replicates a hand-drawn style well that almost all plug-ins do very badly indeed: comics – covering techniques from outlined to full graphic novel-style art.
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Imagine WS114 review
Our review model of CAD2’s Imagine WS114 workstation sees the debut of nVidia’s Quadro FX 4800 graphics card, which boasts a whopping 1.5GB of graphics RAM.
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Manga Studio 4 review
Manga Studio 4 is the best drawing software for professional comic artists, and offers illustrators some top notch tools for creating character-driven artwork.
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E-on Software Vue 7 Infinite/xStream review
The latest version of Vue doesn’t add any new types of elements to its collection of tools – so its new features are largely refinements and enhancements.
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iClone Pro 3 review
For the release of iClone 3, Reallusion has added a Pro version to the home user-focused 3D tool for quickly putting together 3D scenes for pre-visualization.
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Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 review
Dreamweaver has become associated with website creation in the same way that Photoshop is identified with image editing. However, despite some tantalizing treats, there are few reasons to upgrade.
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Toon Boom Animate review
In terms of both features and price, the new Animate sits between Toon Boom Studio and the more expensive Toon Boom Digital Pro. There are some anomalies, however.
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Adobe Flash CS4 review
There are some things in life that you look forward to with trepidation, and if you’re a regular Flash user, the CS4 version is certainly one of those.
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Apple LED Cinema Display review
Apple's stylish LED Cinema Display looks like a great monitor for professional print, Web, video and animation creatives, but it's just not up to the job.
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Sony Vaio AW11 review
Unless you’re a contestant on The World’s Strongest Man, it would be hard to accurately describe the Vaio AW11 as a laptop -- as it has an 18.1-inch screen and weighs just under 4kg.
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Dell Precision M2400 review
Small and light are often relative terms with laptops aimed at creative pros, but Dell’s new Precision M2400 can be described as both in all seriousness.
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Autodesk Maya 2009 review
Maya celebrates its tenth anniversary with the 2009 release, an event marked by enhancements across the board. Although some of these have popped up in other Autodesk tools before now.
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Autodesk Mudbox 2009 review
The key reason to upgrade to the 2009 version of Autodesk's modelling software is to take advantage of the new texture-painting toolset.