MAC hardware, Windows 7 (via BootCamp) with AutoCAD Civil (sacreligious?)

[bob_basques]

All,

Looking to bump up the Hardw on some Civil workstations.

Did some investigation with Dell options, and maxing these out, get's into the realm of akming a MAC workstation look feasible cost wise, the big pondering point for me is how the Video end is handled.

I suppose it might be a possible problem to get Video items to work stably while in 3D mode?

Any thought?

bobb

[omc-usnr]

I'd like to not support the corporate idiots at both Microsoft and Autodesk, but unfortunately, there's no decent, affordable, interchangable civil / site / drafting program out there for Apple.

Acad products on a Mac require too much redundancy for me.

Reid

[Anonymous]

Bear in mind that buying a Mac will require buying a copy of Windows at
full price and either running Boot Camp which will make using Mac
functions require a reboot or using Parallels which will slow down Acad
and add compatibility issues.

bob.basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote:
> All,
>
> Looking to bump up the Hardw on some Civil workstations.
>
> Did some investigation with Dell options, and maxing these out, get's into the realm of akming a MAC workstation look feasible cost wise, the big pondering point for me is how the Video end is handled.
>
> I suppose it might be a possible problem to get Video items to work stably while in 3D mode?
>
> Any thought?
>
> bobb