Curse you Maya 3D, curse you and your slow-ass rendering!
I know my Macbook is horribly out of date hardware-wise (1GB of RAM is not good at all), but this program is terribly slow whenever it tries to render even a basic, low-texture/polygon image. Rendering a fucking apple takes 2 minutes. And just forget about using raytracing or any form of lighting (as that takes upwards of 10 minutes).
I hate having to use the program on this laptop, but even the college's desktops have this issue. None of the computers the budget allows for are capable of handling the program properly.