No, we're not trying to pull a fast one on you here by dusting off another review, slapping a fresh coat of paint on it, and calling it ALL NEW! After reading Stephen Schleicher's review of LightWave[7] a couple of weeks ago, the crew over here at Creative Mac decided that Mac users might want a Mac-only look at NewTek's venerable 3D program to complement the earlier review. In light of the fact that Mac users may not be at all familiar with LightWave, and that LightWave[7] is the first "official" LightWave release to run natively on Mac OS X, we're going to try to figure out what's in it for the Mac folk. I think I need to say "Mac" a few more times.

Dear Santa Jobs,

It seems like all the other good little boys and girls here at DMN got to write a list to the Santa of their choice, so I chose you. I just wanted you to know that I have been extra, EXTRA good this year, after being really, REALLY bad for the last three years. I got sick of the other Santa, Santa Gates, promising to give me the super-good presents I wanted, but never leaving me more than a lump of coal. And Santa Gates always tried to convince me that he actually left me something good, but I knew it was just a lump of coal. Plus, he was never satisfied with just taking the couple of cookies I left for him. He would try to get into the cupboard and take all the rest of my food, along with my plates and dishes and silverware, all the while claiming that I was getting valuable innovations from him by his doing so. So I had to go back to you, Santa Jobs, for this year. You're a pretty good Santa, 'cuz you've given us lots of good loot. One time, you gave us a profitable company again. Other times, you gave us iMacs, G4 PowerBooks, OS X, decent video cards, and other neat stuff. You even gave us some early presents this year with the announcement of Final Cut Pro 3 for OS X and showing us DVD Studio Pro running on OS X. Those are all good presents, but the one thing about good presents are that we always want better ones next time.