I am just beginning to look into Unity Development. I understand I need a Mac to publish content? I have no Mac experience and know nothing about them. I would rather not have to buy one at this time.
I can get my hands on an old iMac Indigo. Would that be sufficient to do what I need it to do for Unity?
You only need a mac to publish to the iphone. If you intended target is the pc, mac, or web, then a windows computer will work as well.
Sorry, I should have been clear: yes, I do intend to publish on iPhone. Will the iMac do what I need it to do?
Unfortunately that system is just very, very slow. It is highly unlikely of ever running a processor intensive program like Unity in workable conditions (you can see the minimum specs required for Unity here: http://unity3d.com/unity/download )
How much experience do you have with computers in general? If you are just starting at programming, Unity is a great choice, but you do need a fairly recent system to use it. Do you have any Windows based systems you could use? Unity has supported Windows since version 2.5.
I plan on developing on the Windows version of Unity.
I am very experienced with PCs, just not Macs at all; never used one before.
I was curious if the iMac would be suitable for the iPhone publishing portion of the Unity process as I do not want to buy a Mac just yet if I do not have to. (I can get the iMac for free.)
I see “an Intel Mac” is required. I am guessing that the iMac is not intel based?
The iMac is not intel, unfortunately. Also, iphone publishing requires the latest version of OS X, which that mac will not support.
No way will that thing work.
It is a PowerPC processor and I seriously doubt it will run Leopard or even Snow Leopard. Even if it does, I wouldn’t do it, my head would hurt to bad, it would make my 8 year old cry and my cat loose all of its hair.
Thanks for the replies. I will cross the mac bridge when I come to it.