Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping
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15-04-2008
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Graphics card info
as u may know im thinking of buying a mac and i need to know how good the gcard is (can it do opengl 2 for example?)
the card in question is NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics
ive been on nvidas site but it doesnt say much
its a mac book pro
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https://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_8600M_fbs.html
Supports OGL 2.1
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What DETAILED info do you want, processing speed, number of pipelines etc etc??
Looks like youve made your decision, but you can get a quadro in another manufacturers site in a laptop, which will work, no probs.
Have a search on Cgtalk as they had some posts on that.
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another site? i thought only apple sells macs, or are u talking about pcs
how do you know i might have difficulties?
My brother has a NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT graphics card in his pc and maya works on that
but what difference does the M make
NVIDIA GeForce 8600(M) GT graphics
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If you have a look on CGtalk people were having problems with the 8000 series cards with viewport errors etc etc, I think it was on PCs as they those cards wernt available for macs at the time, thats how I know you might have problems and as your going to use fusion you might get them depending on the settings used.
I think that thre were a few posts related to the 8000 Series cards on here too.
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ill have to look in to that
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Also if its a mobile chipset you might be best off seeing if you can find anyone with a macbook and that card to see if theres any issues running it via bootcamp or VM ware, or nativly as its not a supported card for maya.
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