Can I Run Maya On Mac Or Is Pc Better?

[mettam]

Hello.

I have been using maya on a PC for a long time now and am now considering buying a Mac to run Maya. I would like to hear peoples experience with making the transition, is it worth the extra money.

Reasons for considering the move to Mac:
XP felt unwieldy I was always getting speed performance issues as the registry would get bogged down over time, Vista I have heard is not much of a improvement. Mac's OS on the other hand looks and feels very well designed and the users hardly ever have a bad word to say about Mac.

For me though the million dollar question is does Maya preform better on a Mac than a PC. Any advice would be great .

Justin.

[no6i]

Upon my experience.
Maya7 on PowerPc Mac : really fine and reliable. (I used PowerBook G4 and Mac Mini, never tested on G5)
Maya8.5 on MacBook Pro : occasionally crashed.
Maya2008 on MacBook Pro : occasionally crashed (maybe even more).

Anyway I'm not sure the instability of Maya happens solely on my system or not, since my friend with his Macbook never complain about 8.5.

And, I think that while I was using 6.5, 7.0 on my vintage Windows machine, it felt a lot more robust (compared to 8.5, 2008 on my MBP).

Autodesk may lacks Mac Developer :s

[dryodryo]

OS X may be a more stable operating system than XP

but

development for OS X is not a priority for Autodesk.

In my experience, the Mac version of Maya is considerably more buggy than the XP version.

If you are married to Apple hardware, I recommend you use Boot Camp. Run Maya natively under XP or Linux. Stay away from emulation or virtualization (e.g. Parallels).

[hansesurfer]

yes, run linux. It`s the best OS (not only) for Maya. Better than XP and also OS X.

[joojaa]

Maya peer use support is s easiest to find for windows . Also API development for maya is easiest on Windows.

So in this light choose linux IF you are a studio that has little need for external support. Whereas windows if you need it.

Mac is some wierd hybrid of theese on the other hand mac os needs quite little support, on the other hand macOS is a tethered application in some sense and for example, but most prominently once you step the boundaries of the OS comfort zone your in exact same situation as the linux user. Mac also has least choice of HArdware limitting your options either to ultrahigh end or low end. Maya does not run on newest macOS.

In parctice many studios run maya on Windows and linux where the render servers are on linux boxes.

QUOTE
yes, run linux. It`s the best OS

Well yes but you cannot really call linux ONE OS its a number of them, some good some worse.

Howevre the ultimate question is what do you use in the OS itself that jmake syou so liberated I mean much of everything i do on windows, linux and lately mac is EXACTLY the same theres no difference only the shorcut keys change. i mean theres not much point in having a cool desktop gui when im on the average using the desktop less than 1% of my entire computation time. Everything else comes in abundance.