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MY FRIEND Cailin Munroe is a VFX supervisor on one of science fiction’s most breathtaking shows, The Expanse. It has all the visual amazement you’d expect from a big-budget show – exciting gunfights, spaceship battles, and science fiction concepts that can only be brought to life through computer animation.

But no one on her team uses a Mac - even though the core program they use is Maya, which is available on Apple’s premier platform for pros. According to her team, “No one uses a Mac for 3D. It’s not for professional, world-class TV or

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