Hey here, (total newbie here)

My system does not meet the "system requirements" for Maya but I went ahead and downloaded it anyway... rebellious, I know.

The download went without a hitch but it freezes up on anything complicated, ie; color changes, polygon increased editing... I know I have to upgrade but I want to make sure I get the right stuff and not unecessary upgrades.
I am running Windows XP Home Edition (it says you need the Professional Edition) with 384 RAM (it says you need 512). I have an "integrated direct AGP 3d graphics card with 11 megabytes Dynamically Allocated as video Memory" (read that off the computer).. I have a 60GB Hard Drive and istalled an additional hard drive recently (for video editing) with 120GB. The whole thing runs on an intel Celeron 1.4ghz Processor.

Do I definately need both the XP 'Professional' version AND the extra RAM? Is my graphics card decent enough?
By the way - thank Gawd for this place!