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Maya for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the because-macs-are-cooler dept.

drc writes "I http://www.macnn.com/feature.php?id=344noticed on MacNN that 'Maya 4.5 for Mac OS X was announced this morning when Steve Jobs revealed that the Maya update would offer feature parity in OS X when compared to other platforms. Jobs also mentioned that Alias|Wavefront has seen the Mac OS X version of Maya grow to 25% of their total market. I'm suprised that the Mac OS X version has such a market share in such a short period of time."

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  1. Re:maya and mice by vought · · Score: 5, Informative
    I remember Maya (on SGI) utilizing all three mouse buttons very extensively. How is the Mac version coping with the single button limitation? More importantly, why doesn't Apple have a three button scrolling mouse yet? After 18 years of insisting that users *like* having their hands tied behind their back, isn't it time to admit they're just being stubborn? C'mon, Steve, we won't think any less of you.

    You're not serious, are you?

    Mac 3-button mouse support explained:

    1. Go to store.

    2. Buy 3-button USB scrolling mouse.(Intellimouse explorer, etc.)

    3. Plug mouse in.

    Just because Apple ships a one-button mouse with Macintosh computers (ostensibly for newbie users, the core consistuent of their user base) doesn't mean mice with n buttons aren't supported. Dell ships machines with two-button mice. Does that mean that 3-button scrolling mice aren't supported on Dell machines?

    I'm hoping you're not just trolling. Anyone who reads any story about Apple on slashdot inevitably runs across the whole multi-button mouse thing - and every single time, it gets explained that yes, OS X does support multi-button mice quite nicely right outta the box. I think it's been explained here about 100 times in the past month. Sheesh.

  2. What's a mouse? by overunderunderdone · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the graphics market "apple once dominated" we are all using Wacom tablets. Photoshop (and most other graphics programs) without a pressure sensitive tablet is almost unusable (If you've gotten used to it without a tablet you just don't realise you're missing some basic functionality).

    On the occasions we use a mouse the one that comes with the tablet has two buttons & a scroll wheel.

    As for "maybe it will reign again" I think it's still dominating that market. Granted the it's not been strong in 3D. But in just about every other creative niche it either dominates (photography, art, design, advertising, pre-press) or has a very respectable presence (film/video, music and increasingly 3D)