...but what peripherals have you owned? ...what third party software have you bought? ...and what seminars or computer classes have you taken? peripherals: 2 epson color printers lexmark color printer hp color printer microtek scanner epson scanner zip 100 cheap 30 dollar digital camera by arcsoft third party software: macromedia freehand adobe photoshop adobe pagemaker adobe illustrator a couple of solitaire games microsoft flight simulator (for pc) and ms windows 2000 and front page ...so that's no so addictive computer classes taken: intro to mac intro to pc windows 98 ms excel ms word ms photodraw ms frontpage graphic design pre-press for macs windows 2000 client os for technicians windows NT 4.0 client os for technicians repairing PC home machines intro to networking for cisco and microsoft cisco routers ms visual basic java pascal
peripherals.... various usb hubs, speakers, cameras, iPods software... basic stuff, photoshop, maya, etc classes... fortran, matlab
honestly, i don't actually *use* maya for anything other than goofing around... a friend of mine gave me his copy of it when he upgraded to something else... (can't think of the name of it...) it would run fine on your computer i'm sure... i always made funny looking landscapes and screwed around with pictures with it, i suppose it could be useful for something though... i just don't know what