not to mention as of last semester my school still only had dual g4's in the labs. they might have upgraded this year as they do every 2 years to g5's but there is also the fact that i commute and work 30 hours a week so i dont have a ton of extra time to spend in the lab, thats why i want a machine to do most of my work at home and if necessary bring files to the lab on my ipod to use school machines to render. i know render time wont be top notch on the imac but with 2gb of ram i should have decent preview times and i just need a solid workflow.
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lukasbarton said:
I still say that you will be fine. I completed my BFA with a 7300 and 512MB or ram.. I think, might have been more, ran me like $2,000. If it was not for my girl at the time (now my wife
) I would never have been able to do it, she helped me get it. I remember doing a 3D opening for the schools annual animation festival, all done in infini-D. I remember my final rendering, a 30 second film, taking about 2 weeks to render, that does not include all the test renderings.. I so envy the speed at which students can work at today.I think that you are making a good decision. Like I have said before, I am learning Maya right now, on my 1.25 20" iMac and it runs fine, have not done any intensive rendering yet.