I had maya running on a HP mini 5101 (I think that's the correct model number). It has some GMA card. While maya was running, it wasn't very useful since CGFX shaders wouldn't run properly. ...basically GMA cards are just crap. I'd too recommend looking into a nvidia ion based netbook. Personally I'm super duper happy with…
I have got the M11x Alienware notebook, which cost around £800. From owning it I wouldn't say that it's ridiculously priced as it's an amazing laptop. It's running 3ds max with a 16 million triangle model pretty smooth. I would recommend it, and recommend just save up for one.
Oh, I managed to get 3DS 2011 to run properly on Asus EEEpc 1005PE, wich was something like: - Windows 7 Basic - Intel Atom 1,70 ghz - 1 GB ram - Intel GMA 3150 graphics card - 1024*600 resolution Was perfect for lowpoly-midpoly models, but can get quite painful with large scenes. Anyhow, I managed to render fast many…
The minimum maya requirements: Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business (SP2 or higher), Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3 or higher), Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional operating system Windows: Intel® Pentium® 4 or higher, AMD Athlon™ 64, AMD Opteron™ processor, AMD Phenom™ processor 2 GB RAM 4 GB free hard drive space…
I had this need some time ago. Some serious problems in my family brought me to move continuously in my town (I also could only rely on public buses), however I needed to continue working on 3D and Web design projects. Since I could not stop my works, I bought a decent EEEpc. Being very lightweight and small, I was able to…
Nah man, interesting story. And going back to mortal. It's more a situation where I have a fairly low key workstudy job at college that's full of plenty of time where nothing is going on. I didn't want to invest much in mobile hardware, preferring to spend the larger amounts on a solid desktop. So instead of just sitting…