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System Requirements
For 32-bit Autodesk Maya 2013
Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional (SP1) or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3) operating system
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 8 or higher, Apple® Safari or Mozilla Firefox web browser
For 64-bit Autodesk Maya 2013
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (SP1), Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2), Apple® Mac OS® X 10.7.x, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.0 WS or Fedora™ 14 operating system
Windows and Linux: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor with SSE3 instruction set support (or higher)
Macintosh® computer: Macintosh computer with Intel-based 64-bit processor