it is the m5700 before they stopped( not made no more because they now use the core 2 duo) so now they use the m5750 model which IMO is worse because now they are using the core 2 duo which is nice but they are doing dual gefore 7900 gs craphics card which is worse the dual gefore 7800gtx and the new motherboard can only handle 2bg of ram which mines can handle 3gb (which is what i have).

yea it is pretty insane lol it ran me near $6000 but i took it out through my school loan

Ahh right, thougt that alienwares first dual graphics card notebooks were the M9700 series as I looked into the P4 alienwares, the Area 51's etc (and the AMD 64x2's) but waited for the intel cores to come out.

Think whan I get some cash together I might upgrade mine to 4Gb RAM (its max)

yea those are nice but the only problem i have with the 9700 series is its amd and im an intel person since i have a friend who works for intel. she usually gets me upgrades all the time so i stick with that

ohh man i know im so upset tho, i wanted to wait got the the axl desktop which is even way better. ill soon take out another student loan before i graduate lol and do so. lol thats how i got my car lol im going to owe alot of money

dude make sure u get the comp tho. these are the sweetest compes ive ever used

I got a Dell XPS m1710 with the Gforce 7900GTX in the end.

I didnt really want to pay as much as Alienware charged extra over the other other comps that are the same, all be it without the paint job.

tru. how is the xps systems. i was looking into it before i purchased miines

Great, really fast, decent weight to move about (to uni and back) and well built, very solid and stable, lots of ports (6 x USB's and a mini firewire for video editing), also its almost completly upgardable, and the instructions tell you how to do it.

I settled on the XPS as it was the best laptop for me looking at the reviews online, and I did a lot of looking and reasearch! LOL!

Heres my comp

AMD Athlon 3000+
Kingston Ram 2gig
Western Digital Hardrive 120 & 140gig
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 512MB (also Nvidia 2 built in motherboard)

is there a way which i can use my ati radeon card to render my stuff like im doing now but also have it helped with my nvidia 2?

marlon

im pretty much sold on macs these days, the PC is nice with the new processor and the laptop is good with the intel and the wiz bang video card but i have never seen anything so user friendly as a mac, all computers should interface like this one

I Mac
intel big processor, dual core
nvidea ..?? something great

blad blah .., 24 inch screen, ect ect, but so frendly to use it is a breeze and with a bit more RAM (forgot how much there is) it will fly

thats my vote, when they bring out the maya for macs.., will be very cool

Hey there Mirek,

Maya's always been available for Mac and Linux as far as I'm aware, If not always then certainly a long time!! I'm not too sure how it works when the Mac has intel processors though (whether you use the PC or Mac version).

Hope your well, uni has had me bogged under, got another bit of coursework to submit tomorrow!!

Later,

Mat.

hi matt, always good to see your friedly postings. I was refering to a version of Maya someonmentioned on ths thread about a 64 bit version for intel. I might be wrong about that. I dont know if I would put it on the Mac, I have maya and computers coming out of my ears and I really need to concentrate on music at the moment. Just saying that the mac is so user friendly. :)
take care :)

p4 3.0GHz CPU
768 RAM (256 + 512 ) DDR2

unfortunately my biggest problem is i dont have a graphics card :headbang: , im using 64mb shared memory from RAM


im trying to get a graphics card sooon

just for reference to anyone out there looking buying a similar spec system to mine the zoorender maya benchmark scene rendered as is (opened and rendered perspective view with no changes) in 1m 24 secs
I do have a fair few other things running so it might go faster on a clean system.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz)
2 Gb Ram
SapphireTech Radeon x1950 Pro Ulitmate version (not really a 3D app card, more for gaming)

Si

EDIT: ah, didnt see the benchmark listings below, will add the results there...

3 min 4 seconds, not too bad for a laptop.

im chugging away on:
1 Gb ram
Radeon 9550
Intel Celron 3.20 Ghz
it is a very low budget system but it can run maya alright