Mac With Max

[Chris]

er, nope on both of those. Max is windows only - no Mac versions. Also the public Mac OS versions are for Macintoshes only. They have very different processors (Motorolla RISC processors vs i86 CISC processors)

[RickThiele]

Hey..

no... from what i heard.. max doesnt work on macs

and theres no way on having both OS in one comp..
mac comps dont support windows
and pcs dont support mac os's

i did heard though that they were gonna make the new mac os work on non-mac comps

dunno though..

cya

hehe. chris.. didnt see ur post.. :P

[dvornik]

Originally posted by Tony Napa
I just want to install mac/os-

You gotta buy a couple of thousand dollars worth of translucent plastic to make it work.

[Chris]

all that plastic will make it run 'faster than light' which will accordingly allow it to 'crush pentiums' (probably with the weight of all that transluscent plastic)



I hear it really pulls the chicks in too! As if spectacles, pen protectors & sweaty coke belly's wern't enough!

[Tony Napa]

Then MAX only runs for windows - not too bad.

[Per-Anders]

heres a way... you can use connectix virtual pc... somewhere i actually heard that it NT runs faster on vpc on a mac than the equivalent pc but this may be urban legend (i suspect you have to do the strange pc boot partition thing which removes the ability to run both os's together at the same time, kinda detracting for the point). as for running max in that setup... well, it's possible, vpc can handle running max (or at least all the components needed), but can your mac? at least to any degree of usability.

[gaggle]

I belive MAX is quite the little turbo-whore to get working outside native Windows. Linux and its emulators for instance are not able to do the trick either (okay so WINE technically isn't an emulator, but you get the picture :)).

For one thing MAX likes to use OGL or D3D, which I've been told doesn't make it easier to make a program work outside Windows. But secondly, more than just the hardware-accelleration (which can be turned off), MAX itself is apparently so embedded in the dark ways of Windows that those who tries this emulation-thing ends up having crashing-problems and weird bugs and whatnot. I've never heard of anyone successfully using MAX outside Windows.

Maya is out for Linux and MacOS though. Er.. but.. maybe this isn't the forum to go about mentioning such things :rolleyes:

Although another issue, already pointed out by others, is of course that MacOS runs on Macs. Not on PCs. Cue the whole transparent plastic thing.

[Per-Anders]

this is true... but i'm pretty certain i've seen max running in vpc. vpc gives you basically a complete pc via software emulation. OGL, windows and all, you would have to run it in windoze on the virtual pc, Max wont run in os x or os 9 natively under any circumstance.

There's no reason not to run it like as you can get a very powerful pc for rather less than a very powerful mac... although fo course mac osx is rather tasty, and macs are kind to us simple designer folk as in you don't tend to think much about the os it just sits there and does it's job in the background nicely not getting in the way.

But if your heart is set on a mac, then you should also consider Lightwave (maybe the best poly and subd modeler after Mirai and such a nice render engine), Electric Image Universe (hey if ILM feel it's good enough to use on Star Wars among others who am I to argue), and Cinema 4D (version 8 looks like being rather tasty check out www.3dfortherealworld.com), oh and you've already mentioned Maya, which is great if you've got the time.

[blankslatejoe]

Originally posted by dvornik
You gotta buy a couple of thousand dollars worth of translucent plastic to make it work.

hahah, thats a very quotable quote.

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