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Ejecta
10-20-2002, 02:17 AM
With AW intergrating MR for free it has pushed me into settling on Maya. I was on the fence between XSI and Maya. Im currently thinking about getting back into using Macs. I really like OS X from what Ive seen. I know MR isnt ready for OS X yet.

Anyway...

Which graphics card do you guys recommend?

What was the main reason that made you decide to use OS X over Windows?
beaker
10-20-2002, 08:44 AM
>>Which graphics card do you guys recommend?

Probably the Geforce 4 titanium. The Radeon 9700 kicks Geforce in the jimmy, but it isn't out for the mac yet. Something to do with half finished opengl drivers.

>>What was the main reason that made you decide to use OS X over Windows?

Unix with a cool gui, shell scripting, builit in perl and python(none of that activestate shit that you have to pay for on windows), gcc compiler comes with it so I don't have to spend another $500 on visual C++, shake and FCP(best editor for the buck). Also it easily networks with my linux and windows boxes(nfs and samba built in). OsX 10.0 and maya 3.5 were pretty damn slow and buggy, but a/w has done a great job with 4.5 and 10.2 with the opengl gui is nice. A combo of 4.5 and osx 10.2 and it runs very smoothly and fast with the gui.
Ejecta
10-20-2002, 01:07 PM
Cool,
Thanks for the reply.

One thing I forgot to ask. Does 4.5 multi-thread now on the Mac?

I had heard Maya used to be not able to use both CPUs on the Mac. Im not sure if that was true.
altruizine
10-20-2002, 04:00 PM
That changed in 4.5

It now is threaded and takes advantage of multiprocessors... :)

Enjoy!!
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