Christoph Fasching

Terence Ziegler
Would a MacBook M5 Pro Max be able to run Copernicus?

Since Houdini 21, yes.
Copernicus runs fine on Apple Silicon Macs.

Earlier builds had some macOS specific issues. Mainly preview material & refresh. But those are mostly resolved now.
There’s no general OptiX dependency in Copernicus.
The main exception is AI denoising with OptiX which is NVIDIA only. On a Mac we just use OIDN instead and it works just fine (I use it in Karma as well).

LukeP
I’m still puzzled why this is 22 and not 21.5 lol. Just rewatched v21 sneak peak. It was amazing. So much new stuff. 22 feels a fraction of that and quite underwhelming but I guess SideFX spoiled us last time. It’s still waaaay bigger release than what some of the competition is doing

My guess is it's because of new look.
And maybe / hopefully a lot of things under the hood that aren't flashy new features but bug fixes, quality of life and speed improvements.

any chance MacOS got full XPU?