Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?

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Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298145

By NathanDan - Tue May 12, 2009 3:43 am

- Tue May 12, 2009 3:43 am #298145

In view of the upcoming launch, we are also announcing a free upgrade campaign which starts today! Customers purchasing standard licenses between now and the Maxwell Render 2 launch date will receive a 25% discount and also be entitled to a free upgrade to Maxwell Render 2 upon release.

I found this in an evermotion email. Looks like anyone buying now is going to get an interesting deal...

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Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298164

By d7mcfc - Tue May 12, 2009 10:44 am

- Tue May 12, 2009 10:44 am #298164

I too go this Email.

Where do we as Maxwell old-timers stand on this?

I have a small business here and have to budget accordingly. It would be useful to me, and I presume many others to have an indication for cashflow reasons.

Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298165

By Maximus3D - Tue May 12, 2009 10:50 am

- Tue May 12, 2009 10:50 am #298165

That nice deal is probably only if you buy it from Evermotion's store. My guess it has nothing to do with NL other than they're reselling their product.

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Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298166

By mashium123 - Tue May 12, 2009 10:53 am

- Tue May 12, 2009 10:53 am #298166

so... there will be 1.x-users that will have free upgrades to 2.0 and other 1.x-users that won't?

hmm...

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Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298169

By numerobis - Tue May 12, 2009 11:58 am

- Tue May 12, 2009 11:58 am #298169

mashium123 wrote:so... there will be 1.x-users that will have free upgrades to 2.0 and other 1.x-users that won't?

hmm...

it's a normal process... if you buy 1.0 now you'll get the upgrade to 2.0 for free in a few months - so you don't have to wait, NL gets the money now and everything is fine...

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Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298200

By Tea_Bag - Tue May 12, 2009 4:23 pm

- Tue May 12, 2009 4:23 pm #298200

Also remember that the email didn't state any prices for all you know existing customers might get an even better deal than 25%!

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Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298212

By cgbeige - Tue May 12, 2009 6:14 pm

- Tue May 12, 2009 6:14 pm #298212

I just hope the upgrade price is reasonable. I am probably not the only person around "polishing their portfolio" more than they were two years ago.

Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298213

By nicole - Tue May 12, 2009 6:26 pm

- Tue May 12, 2009 6:26 pm #298213

Hi everyone,

The Maxwell Render promotion mentioned in the Evermotion email is available from our website now too: http://www.maxwellrender.com. Evermotion are one of our resellers and they already knew we were going to run this promo.

Customers purchasing Standard licenses between now and the Maxwell Render 2 launch date will receive a 25% discount and will also be entitled to a free upgrade to Maxwell Render 2 upon release.
Render nodes are not included in the discount offer but will receive the free upgrade – so if you are looking to buy additional licenses, now would be a good time.

We will inform you about our upgrade policies and pricing for existing customers as soon as possible. Of course, all customers are free to upgrade as many of their licenses as they want.

Cheers,

Nicole

Next Limit Team
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Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298234

By yolk - Tue May 12, 2009 9:43 pm

- Tue May 12, 2009 9:43 pm #298234

is one license still good for 4 cores? beta users back then received an additional license as a gift. so now i have an 8core license..i guess i will have to upgrade for twice the price..right?

thanx for letting us know

Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298237

By m-Que - Tue May 12, 2009 10:12 pm

- Tue May 12, 2009 10:12 pm #298237

Yep, saw that time-limited offer on other reseller sites, too. So it seems like v.2.0 will be here sooner then we may have thought.

But what is also interesting:
"...The price for the upgrade from 1.x to 2 has not yet been set. But we're expecting it to be somewhere around 250-400 Euros..."

Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298239

By cgbeige - Tue May 12, 2009 10:36 pm

- Tue May 12, 2009 10:36 pm #298239

400.00 EUR = $634.276 Canadian. Gah.

Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298242

By Mihai - Tue May 12, 2009 11:01 pm

- Tue May 12, 2009 11:01 pm #298242

yolk wrote:is one license still good for 4 cores?

David, is this David?

it's a long time since the license aren't per core anymore, it's per machine. So one machine can have as many CPUs/cores as you want.

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Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298246

By yolk - Tue May 12, 2009 11:36 pm

- Tue May 12, 2009 11:36 pm #298246

yes it's david

oh! that's nice..i'm going to buy a 32core machine then

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Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298249

By NathanDan - Wed May 13, 2009 1:15 am

- Wed May 13, 2009 1:15 am #298249

Awesome stuff thanks NL! i eagerly await good news hehe
I am still reeling from the version 2 vs 1.7 benchmark tests. One thing that would be interesting to see is how these comparisons span over 5k render sizes. If the smaller renders are anything to go by then we are all in for a real treat. Naturally speed has been the most frustrating part of the render system's pitfalls (which aren't all that many), I guess quite soon it's going to be up to maxwell users to show the world how damn efficient and easy this wonderful program is to use

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Re: Any news on the cost of Maxwell Render 2?#298255

By mashium123 - Wed May 13, 2009 3:19 am

- Wed May 13, 2009 3:19 am #298255

Being one of those who were lucky enough to receive 4 licenses out of just one - though not lucky enough to get 8 -, I guess I would have to pay 4 times the upgrade price to keep my licenses contemporary?
Feels a bit funny.. bought one license in early days, transformed into 4 licenses, and now will need to purchase 4 upgrades... or will there be a "special" again for us multiple "special" ones?...