[heresiarh]

Has anyone tried running Cinema 4D, Carrara 3D and Bryce 3D on their pbook 15' Al 1ghz, loaded with 768mb ram? how is the response?

[brutal]

No but I've tried them (except Bryce) on my iBook 800Mhz with 384mb ram. Can't exactly say that the response blew me away

[sushiism]

did a maya project on my powerbook 800 5xx meg of ram, ran great if thats any help

[heresiarh]

tell me more about your maya project, how many frames for animation, what kind of modeling, nurbs or poly?

[brkn]

Both Blender and Wings 3D run quite acceptably on my Powerbook 1.25GHz/1GB ram.

[Hornet]

Maya runs reasonably decently on my 1ghz Ti, obviously depending on the complexity of the scene being displayed. A little while back I made a fairly detailed FA18 Hornet model (nurbs and polys). With full texturing, moving the camera around did get a bit sluggish. Switching between wireframe and textured views takes a few seconds. Maybe I'll post a render up here something.

I'm going to have a bit more strenuous time soon with maya, modelling a far more detailed F14 Tomcat shortly for a project for uni. Not looking forward it too much on this 1ghz machine heh.

Let it be known though - even the dual 2ghz G5's we use at uni don't run Maya all that great. Sure it's considerably better than this powerbook, but umm, still does get a bit bogged down with this stuff

[zen jihad]

On the Mac, I'd probably go for something like Cinema 4D, Lightwave, or the various cheap modellers, like Wings. Maya, it's not too much fun on the Mac just now though.