I am going to buy a Mac to be able to test my VET-scenes on this OS as well. But I know almost nothing about Mac. But I would like to know if a machine with the following specs. would be okay to test my scenes: 9600/300 mhz - 256 MB RAM - 8 GB HD - cd rom?

Dear Jakob,
The Specification u write here are fine with MAC OS as far the QA of your VET scenes is concerned. VET scenes will work there, if u download the Viewpoint Media Palyer for MAC.
You may consider this one for your QA and ur Developement as well:
Power Macintosh G4/800 MT, include MAC OSX
256K L2 cache,
Ram 256 MB
Hard Disk 40 GB Uata
CDRW Drive
ATI Radeon 7500 with 32 MB of Graphics Ram
56K FAX Modem, Gigabit Ethernet
Apple Pro Keyboard and Pro Mouse
Apple 15? LCD Display

Cheers,
MFQadeer

Jakob,

If you can get an OS9 machine, buy that. Do NOT buy the OSX if you can buy the OS9!

Keep in mind that the Viewpoint Media Player does not run on OSX. In fact, the OSX player has not been released yet. You can run the machine in Classic Mode, but Viewpoint does not officially support it. In such a case you are basically emulating OS9.
You should check out the Release Notes for the Macintosh Player before you consider buying a machine. Here is the link:
http://www.viewpoint.com/developerzone/docs/308releasenotes.pdf

Finally, I'm assuming that you are using this machine for testing purposes only. If this is your sole machine for testing and/or creating VET scenes, you definitely should get a PC instead. Just remember that given the choice between a new machine with OSX and an older one with OS 8 or OS 9, take the older one. It will be suported and it will probably be a lot cheaper.

~Chris

Frankly, just about any machine with a G3 or G4 chip will do you fine, I'm not convinced that you don't want a machine with OS X on it.
Yes VET currently only runs in 'Classic' OS 9 (which is an emulation environment in OS X) and is not supported by Viewpoint on OS X 'native' yet. But it is going to be (allegedly) and I would be pretty irritated to have to buy another machine in 3 months time to check performance.
FYI I do all my authoring in OSX, have never had any problems at all with the current build of the VET player running in 'Classic' under OS X or directly in OS9.

Actually, that's a pretty good point, Barnaby. You probably don't want to buy a new OSX machine once the new plugin is released. And yes, it definitely is on the way, although I don't know when the arrival time is.

~Chris

Hi Jakob,

Nobody has mentioned in this thread so far that you can have multi-boot of different OSes on a Mac machine.

My test machine has OS9.22 and OSX. I find that my iBook (G3 @ 500MHz) is perfectly adequate as a test machine. I got this one in January of this year and it had OS9 on it. As others have said, it's a lot easier if you get one with OS9 because you can always install OSX on it, and while doing so, select you want to make it multi-boot.

This allows you to have three test options : pure OS9, pure OSX, and OSX Classic mode (emulation of OS9).

I'm not sure whether if you buy a machine with OSX already installed, that you can then install OS9 multi-boot afterwards.

-Derek