I was wondering if someone could give me some advice. I currently have a student version of Maya 2008 on my mac. My school is requiring that I get at least Maya 8.5 so I was going to get Maya 2010.

I have had problems rendering out with Maya Vector on my Mac and have heard that using Maya on a PC is a lot better. Like different plug ins and other features.

My question is this:

What would be better getting Maya 2010 for my mac or using bootcamp on my mac and getting either windows xp or windows 7 on my mac through bootcamp and getting Maya 2010 pc for it. From what I read it would act just like a PC and I should have no problems. But my photoshop and after effects cs4 would be on my Mac side but I could get pc versions of both. Also should I get windows xp to run Maya 2010 on instead of windows 7 since on the autodesk page Maya 2010 hasnt been fully tested and approved for windows 7?

It seems like a lot of people who do 3d modeling and animation use pcs.

Any suggestions?