hey sup ppl. I was wondering which would be bettter for MAYA the mac or the PC. Everyone knows of course the answer to that is the MAC. It has a great design its powerful, and it has a higher floating point. But it makes a hell of a hole in my wallet. Plus it doesnt come with a monitor which is just another huge hole. so i was wondering wut other ppl were using and wut would be the best. THANKS

Well it depends. How good are you with Maya? I mean if you are crank out the 3D models that people want, you should be able to cover the cost from buying a Mac in no time. Howeverm if you are just a hobbyist, I see nothing wrong from running it on an high end PC either. It really depends on your preferences, I don't like the way input is handled on Mac's, so I know I would enver get one. Decisions, decisions...

...a higher floating point?

If you can afford to buy Maya, you can sure as hell afford to buy a Mac and a monitor.

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Sean Timarco Baggaley

PS: Please refrain from using phrases like "hey sup ppl". You appear to have a perfectly functional keyboard in front of you, so you may as well use all 105 buttons and get your money's worth out of it.

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Original post by PB Baller27 hey sup ppl. I was wondering which would be bettter for MAYA the mac or the PC. Everyone knows of course the answer to that is the MAC.

Really, I didn't know that. Maybe you could divulge a bit? "Higher floating point" just won't cut it.

Macs come with monitors. Just not the Mac Mini.

No. :-) If you get a PowerMac you have to by an Apple Cinema display seperately. The only desktops that you don't need to buy a monitor for are the eMac and iMac, both of which are not suitable for serious game development.

If you insist on a PowerMac then you're going to have to pay extra for the monitor, ain't much way around it.
I don't see any reason why you should though - just buy a high-end PC and use that. Pretty much what a lot of my friends at University have done, because there is no way they can afford Macs. Also getting a regular PC means you'd have a platform which you actually have a use for outside of Maya :)

-Mezz

I've used Maya on Mac and PC. I found several annoying querks on the Mac, and the rendering was MUCH slower.

This was a comparison between a dual 2.4 (or so) xeon and a dual 2.something G5, both University computers (I guess that's relevant because one or both could have been set up poorly).

I now have my own Maya license and have it installed on a PC. No cause for complaint at all.

I like macs, and I plan to get a G5 at some stage if possible (a shake license would be nice :)), but I didn't like Maya on the mac at all, and I don't plan to ever install it on one.

The other Uni students at the time had basically the same feeling too. It just didn't cut it on the G5s. As the deadlines for classes came near we were all crammed into the xeon lab.
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