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Maya on Apple

post #1 of 5
3/28/05 at 11:45am
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Thinking about the 15" or 17" powerbook. Does anyone run Maya on theirs? How well does 3D software operate on the PB?
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post #2 of 5
3/28/05 at 12:49pm
i ran the free version of maya on my powerbook and it ran well. but i couldn't do any serious rending due to the limits of the demo.
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post #3 of 5
3/28/05 at 6:18pm
I have try Maya 6.0 on my Powerbook 17" G4. It run well but, Not so good on large scale project. Now I use my powerbook in compositing. And use Window PC for Maya.
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post #4 of 5
4/13/05 at 8:34am
Honestly, consider a PC for 3d.

Apple just has not cultivated the 3d market very well. OpenGL and video cards both seriously lag.

My money is where my mouth is, I'm heading towards doing my 3d on PC and my main 3d app (Cinema 4d XL) is a great Mac product.

What will happen is, you will be able to do most any and all smallish projects. But you may have issues with larger more complex models and scenes. Poof, dead-end.

Consider the Dell Precision Workstation laptops. They come will decent quality OpenGL cards.
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post #5 of 5
4/13/05 at 3:49pm
A lot of major studios are almost exclusively Mac now since Maya has been made available for the platform.
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