nevermind photoshop UB, im waiting for MAYA UB

[speakerwizard]

So, is there many others out there desperately awaiting maya to go universal? im not hopeful for maya 8 but hopefully by 9, autodesk stated apple were helping them to convert maya to UB so i assume thats a definate for some point! apple should have bought it long ago before decreet. Anyway, its either maya UB or paralells with full 3D support, whatever comes 1st lol, i hate rebooting, and i use many apps (in osx) at once, so bootcamp sucks a bit. rant over, maybe i switched to intel a bit early lol, but that 24" imac is SOOO hard to say no to lol.

for some interest : http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=14619

also :

Autodesk Media & Entertainment

“The Autodesk® Maya® team has worked closely with Apple to ensure that the industry’s leading product for 3D content creation takes advantage of advances in OS X and the Mac platform. We look forward to continuing to meet the needs of the creative Mac community, and providing native support for Intel-based Macs is an important element of our commitment.”

— Kevin Tureski, Director Product Development, Autodesk Media & Entertainment

 

[speakerwizard]

come on, there must be some mac maya users on here, whats your thoughts? whats your plans for using maya until UB? thinking of switching (app or os?)

 

[whyrichard]

sciarc architecture students are waiting too

Hey,

i'm an architecture grad student at sciarc, and many people in that community use maya for a wide variety of uses. modeling, dynamics, animation, rendering, diagraming, csfem, script writing, moremoremore. all the mac users are waiting. i've not even bothered with maya 7/8 on my macbook pro 2.0 w/2gigs ram. i'd use parallells with rhino, even without video support, for many things, but not maya.

maya 7 flies with bootcamp, however. i'm inpatient, so i've got redundant programs (cs2 suite, rhino, maya) in xppro/bootcamp as well as all the mac counterparts in osx. but i find myself being productive in bootcamp when i need fast workflow while accessing my mac files on my mac partition using macdrive and it works out pretty much just fine.


i hate windows, but i've put up with it only since studying architecture. i'll rejoice when i never need to use windows again! and the moment is near! but in the meantime, i think which windows program/intelmac solution you use depends on the type of work you do, and the sort of deadlines you have, as well as the patience you have with video lag/processing time vs computer user interface happiness.



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