Apple announced at NAB today that it will release a major update to its leading compositing software, Shake. Shake 4.1 will ship in May and will be fully Intel Mac compliant, the application has been demonstrated at NAB running on an Intel Core Duo iMac.
Kirk Paulsen, Apple's Senior Director of Pro Applications said; typically, users of Shake have the most powerful system available to them — like a dual processor Power Mac G5 — in order to run the application. Paulsen said the processors are no longer the bottleneck when running high-end applications like Shake, now it’s the speed of the hard drive.