right.. nice way of typing;P

anyway here are the system requirements:

Software Requirements
Maya requires one of the following operating systems:
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional,
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (Service Pack 2 or higher)
SGI® IRIX® 6.5.15
RedHat™ Linux® 9.0 or Enterprise Linux WS 3.0
Apple® Mac® OS X 10.2.4 or higher (Maya Complete ONLY)
Apple® Mac® OS X 10. 3 or higher (Maya Unlimited ONLY)

Maya requires one of the following browsers:
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 4.0 or higher
Netscape® 7.0 or higher
Hardware Requirements
At a minimum, Maya requires a system with:
Intel® Pentium® II or higher,
AMD Athlon™ processor,
Macintosh® G4 or G5
512 MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
Hardware-Accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
3-button mouse with mouse driver software
450 MB of hard disk space

some of the basics van be found inside maya itself, it got a few tutorials (i think it depends on your version tho)

and ofcourse SM got a lot of nice tutorials