And I will ask again about these free licenses for those who bought a Mac in 2019 and 2020.
I am still holding back on buying an annual subscription because it was promised a year and a half ago.
Any dates known?

One year free trial of OctaneX. However, I cannot get it to work.

https://home.otoy ...

Can anyone help me understand what I am doing wrong here? I have not been able to get OctaneRender and now OctaneX to ever get past a "waiting for image" hang on Blender.

I had the same problem on my PC with CUDA, and had been waiting for OctaneX to try it on my MacbookPro.

16" i9 Macbook pro ...