Does anyone use AutoCAD or Carlson on either of these? If so, how good does it work? :-S
My brother in law is a manager at an Apple store, he has a bunch of customer who run AutoCAD and Revit on Mac's through Parallels. He says it works great.
I use Mac at home a lot and my wife is 100% mac dedicated. I thought about going the Mac route but I just felt that it was not worth the extra cost for a Mac to run non-native software. You'll spend around a grand or so more than you would on a comparable PC laptop. I realize that the hardware is better and lasts longer, and that the OS is better (my 6 year old Mac is the same speed it was the day I bought it...no slowdown at all), but it just didn't seem worth it to me.
Tom
My office uses all apple computers. I personally use a MacBook Pro since I am in the field a lot. They run AutoCAD Civil3D 2012 great!
I do it but am getting ready to switch back to Windows only. The hardware is beautiful, but difficulty of right clicking in BootCamp using the track pad drives me crazy. Also, Apple treats the "delete" button differently (apple uses it as a backspace).. it doesn't delete objects when pressed in autocad. I've been a mac guy since 2000 but I'm done with it.. now that I need to run a business and work I find the OS inefficient. That doesn't mean others aren't better with ti.. but for me Windows is how I get work done.
Doesn't Autocad have a mac based version now? so you don't have to use the emulators.
andy
Andy,
they have an ACAD version for OSX, but as far as I know they don't have C3D or any survey software.
You don't need an emulator, you can boot straight into windows on an Intel based Mac.