AutoCAD 2010/2011/2012 DWG Format

[#1]

Evening everyone. My first post here so I want to start off on the right foot.

I am just about to commence learning AutoCad. I am going to run through the Lyndacom AutoCad DVD Tutorials and I am also going to enrol in a City & Guild accredited course.

I am an avid MAC user and all the computers in my office and house are Macs.

I know that there now are MAC versions of AutoCad and I was excited to see them.

HOWEVER

The Lynda.com DVD and no doubt my upcoming course will be using the windows platform.

What I want to know is should I Bootcamp my MAC PRO (late 2008) to run windows?

Or can I get away with using a proprietary fix such as Paralels for mac e.t.c

Or even pick up a CHEEEAP second hand windows desktop and install purely for the purposes of CAD?

How hardware intensive is the software in it's 2d form?

I hope that someone can assist and point me in the right direction this early in my career.

Regards

LB

[#2]

you might have better luck with your questions over in the AutoCAD for Mac forum;

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-for-Mac/bd-p/520

hth

[#3]

Be aware the the OSX version of AutoCAD is lacking some of thefunctionality of the Wintel version.  If you want to avoid puchasing a Wintel PC, Bootcamp or Parallels  are said to be viable options for runnin AutoCAD on an Apple computer. 

Regardless of 2d or 3d, AutoCAD is a huge program, and 'cheap pc' are never going to be happy environments to work with it in.