> My MacBook Pro works just fine with my structural engineering
> programs. I
> can run RISA-3D (even with the dumb a$$ USB dongle), Woodworks, and
> TEDDs
> just fine using Windoze XP Pro in Parallels. I also have a BootCamp
> partition setup that runs Windoze XP if I cannot get it to run in
> Parallels...that is basically just like running it on a Windoze PeeCee
> computer. Works great.
I don't want to perpetuate OS wars, but I'm told by some colleagues
that AutoCAD will run this way and so will ANSYS, both substantially
as fast as running native on Windows-only iron. I would have thought
that the ANSYS licensing hoops would be a problem, but apparently not.
One thing you do want to be very careful about. When you're running
Windows under Parallels or BootCamp, it's really a Windows machine
and subject to all the Windows security problems. The Apple logo and
the presence of OS 10 doesn't protect the Windows portion of the
machine. So run the techno-apps with windows, but read your e-mail
and surf with the Mac.
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
1864)
http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/
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