anyone animating in Maya on laptop?

Please share if you are happy with how Maya runs on your laptop and graphics card.

Please list your laptop model and which graphics card it uses.

Thanks.

 

Maya runs fine on my zepto 6324 with a 512mb 8600m gt, I use 3ds Max at work though, Maya is just for tests at the moment.

 

Using Maya 8.5 here on my G1S for a class I'm taking in school. go 7700 512 vram. Seems fine here, no slowdowns unless i don't ever delete the history. Then it gets a little sluggish.

 

Using Maya PLE 7.0, it runs fine on my setup when doing some simple modelings and animations, the performance really depends on how complex/how many polygons the model has...

Though majority of the time I use Max for modelings...

 

Thanks for the info so far. Anyone use maya with 8400m? Or 7950 gt?

And people say mixed things about ATI, anyone run Maya just fine with ati?

 

runs fine for me with:
go 7900 gs
2 gb ram
5400 rpm hd 80 gb

but i wish i new how to make more than fire rings

anyone know of any good tutorials?

 

Aren't 3D applications much more reliant on CPU than GPU performance?
If I'm not much mistaken they purely draw on the CPU (and preferably a ton of RAM ) during rendering, and I would imagine even a several year old graphics card should be capable of pulling off the OpenGL previews during the actual work process.
I've only dabbled with much more affordable hobby 3D applications though (Carrara, Vue, Poser etc.).

 

I'm mostly interested in animating. So I need maya to work well with the viewports and selecting nurbs curves, selecting complex f-curve stuff as well.

Rendering might be cpu intensive, but that's not my focus.

 

@miths

Your partly right.. not fully. When your scenes get heavy enough, belive me, you know when your have an old crappy gpu rather than a new one.

Also Maya 2008 is running Direct3d since it got under the autodesk hood, and since it needed vista support. And we all know vista and openGL is no fun. ;-)

 

I've been using Maya 6.5 on Bootcamp WinXP and It usually runs great however during extended modeling sessions, the perspective view gets glitchy... sometimes...

 

Thanks dab about Bootcamp and winxp, but I'm specifically looking for info on laptop graphics card. Trying to decide which laptop/graphics card to get for Maya Animation (I don't need to model or rig) and also for a decent price.

These answers are great, please keep 'em coming. What's your laptop and card that runs Maya well?