Hasta La Motion!

I have a couple of questions that I was hoping someone could answer for me!

Firstly I am a newbie to vfx, not to say I have dabbled in maya and other programs for a year or so, but am now in a position to speed up the learning process.

Firstly I am getting a new machine, as my pc is relatively old, and can’t really handle what I plan to use it for. I am going to subscribe to a well known training site that has someawsome tutorials etc and was wondering if the new iMac 27" quad core i5 could handle complex animations, renders composit’s etc.

Another reason for purchasing the iMac is because my other half wants to it to run the creative suite etc.

I don’t really want to get into the whole mac vs windows debate, just some advice as to whether or not I’d be happy for a couple of years learning basics of the vfx trade.

in a nutshell, the machine is the i5 quad core, 8gb, 27" iMac with 4850 ati graphics card. I will mostly be using maya, nuke and real flow…. Would the machine be good enough….?

Thanks guys, any help would be greatly appreiated.

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