Question about System Requirements

Unity Engine
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hello,

i have a question about the System Requirements for Unity3d, i am a windows PC user and i have now a MAC

is this ok for use unity3d or is the MAC to old for working with the unity software.

  • PowerMac G4 AGP 450 MHz (grey)
  • 832 MB Ram
  • 40 GB Harddisk
  • DVD
  • ZIP Drive (100MB)
  • ATI rage 128 pro Graficcard
  • Formac SCSI ProRaid Card
  • Ethernet 10/100 MBit/s
  • 2x USB 2.0
  • 2x Firewire 400
  • Audio IN/OUT
  • OSX 10.4 (Tiger)

thanks

Christian_GER

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Technically that should work, but it will be pretty slow and the graphics are very limited. Assuming the goal is to spend as little as possible, I think you’d be a lot better off with a Mac Mini.

–Eric

3

450MHz makes the machine around … 7-9 years old. Would you want to use a seven year old PC for anything more advanced than … editing text? Macs age a little slower than PCs, but not THAT much slower.

I used to do Unity development on a 1.2GHz G4 iBook with 1.25GB RAM – that worked pretty well. I’d suggest anything much slower than that would be hard to stomach.

4

Yeah… that is really pushing it. I use an 800 mhz G4 and while it does ok its GPU really bites and so I do not benefit much from Unity’s WYSWYG editor.

5

ok i have found a other Mac

iMac G5 2,0GHz
1GB Ram
ATI Radeon 9600 128MB

is this ok for Unity3d?

Christian

6

Yep, that will be fine.

–Eric

7

I’m running a G5 Dual 2GHz, AGP 8x with a 6800DL Ultra and the results on the trial were encouraging, though I have yet to try the pro… EBay find for less than £500 (yes I know you can get a very hi-spec PC for a little more) but I actually have become somewhat of a convert since… I tried an almost exact spec to your initial suggestion of the G4 with ATI Rage Pro and to be honest it will put you off, I’m no Mac expert but I would say my Mac was the lowest spec I would want to get the correct impression of Unity with with perhaps the with the exception of possibly a slightly lower spec’ gfx card?

HTH

8

Intel Macs are so much faster than G5s, it’s ridiculous. I’d really suggest trying to get your hands on an aluminum iMac. 20" ones are going for £650 from Apple (refurbished), and so I’m sure you can find cheaper ones elsewhere.

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thanks , yes i look every day on ebay for an imac with c2duo^^ and yes i buy a imac core2duo^^ but is a ATI pro 128mb on imac 20" ok for unity? i had see other imacs with nvidia8800GS but to expensive for me :frowning:

christian

10

Hi, i having a problem
I use original Windows 7 (not SP1)
Can unity 4 runs in Win7?
Sorry for OOT
Thanks