Is there any chance in the future that, Pixologic will have pity on the old power mac G5 users, and make some type of patch or program that will allow use Zbrush 2 users to upgrade any higher? Could the 6000 intel employees being layed off an incentive to make it possible? I so baddly want Zbrush 3.12 but, it would hurt my wallet to HAVE to buy a new computer.
I think they’ve posted enough times that do not plan to make a PowerPC version of ZBrush 3.x. Intel’s layoff’s don’t logically translate into more PowerPC users of the product since even Apple has stopped making PowerPC-based OSX systems for a couple of years now.
Most likely, for efficiency reasons (since Zbrush relies more on the CPU than the GPU) they do not want to put the effort into optimizing for the PowerPC Gx chips.
The current Mac version (Intel 3.12) is seriously crippled with problems, so I think you’d be offered false hope if there was much chance they can support the G5 in any meaningful way.
-K