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System Requirements
For 32-bit Autodesk Maya 2012
Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional, Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business (SP2), or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3) operating systems
Windows: Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, Apple Safari, or Mozilla Firefox web browsers
For 64-bit Autodesk Maya 2012
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista Business x64 Edition (SP2), Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2), Apple® Mac OS® X 10.6.5, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.5 WS, or Fedora™ 14 operating systems
Windows and Linux: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
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