Hardware Requirements

Thanks to the rapid advancement of technology, most mid-priced PCs will run Maya and Photoshop with few problems (at least where the book's tutorial projects are concerned). That said, it's recommended that you use a Maya-certified graphics card to avoid interface and view panel drawing errors. For a list of recommended cards, visit www.autodesk.com/maya. This book, for example, was written on a laptop running Vista 64-bit with 4 GB of RAM, a 2.2 GHz dual-core processor, and an NVIDIA-based graphics card.

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