Nope - never ran maya on the mac. Although I'm pretty sure if i tried, the mac would say 'no'. Or it would randomly say 'It's not my fault'. Or something.

Seriously, yes i had a pretty bad time with them. In our office we actually had a huge pinboard of all the 'Error messages' we'd have thrown at us from our macs, and it was pretty damn funny how undescriptive they were. It made getting rid of the errors nigh on impossible.

Like I say most designers kiss their ass usually just because they look nice in the office, and as a general rule Designers aren't technical people. They spend all day looking in the mirror and fluffing their hair, they need their computers to be simplistic things. Theres absolutely NO advantage of using Quark / Photoshop / Illustrator on a mac as opposed to a PC in my eyes.