Hi!
In my humble opinion:
The mac book is more for architectural and multimedia stuff, the pc is more used in industry.
But i's only a question of taste: any good pc has the same perfomance and quality as a macbook.
In my opinion, you get bad luck with your pc, maybe you know other people that have the same pc and works very well... it's like sometimes we can have bad luck with a car or someting like that. Sht happens sometimes.
If i was you, i had repaired the pc, sell it in ebay and bought another one with that money.
If you want a thrust reliable pc, check the worksations lines, you can search in hp, dell, lenovo, etc, for their workstations (professional ). A workstaions will not be quickly as an gamer pc, but will be for certain reliable to work... and more expensive, but maybe not like a macbook.
Check it (as an example):
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/workstations/overview.html
You will need to run either Boot Camp (free from Apple) or Parallels on which you will still need to purchase and install your Windows O/S. Boot Camp will provide a better environment in which to install Windows and Inventor. It sets a partition on the "hard-drive" for Windows to be installed on. You will need to re-boot your machine for either the Mac environment or the Windows environment. The O/S will have full access of all the hardware/system resources.
In Parallels, it's a virtual operating system which Windows gets installed in. You don't get full access to all system resources as you still need to hold back some system hardware resources for the Mac environment while you are using Windows. It is great if you primarily live in the Mac environment as Windows is running inside an application window on your desktop.
I use Boot Camp on my Mac Pro on my home office machine while I use Parallels on my Mac Book Pro.
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It's good, considering the CPU speed of the MacBook Pro's aren't what a desk-top machine is. Inventor is CPU clock speed related. The faster your clock speed, the better it performs.
You will still need to install Windows within Parallels though.
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Boot Camp is the preferred way as it's a "true" Windows environment in that sense. My home "Mac Pro" machine spends most of it's time in the Windows mode while my laptop spends its time in OS. The only time it returns to OS is about once a week for any software updates and then to back up for Time Machine after any software updates and any cloud drive folder synchronization.
I can't recall any freezes with the Mac Pro or for that matter with my Mac Book Pro. The Mac Book Pro spends all it's time in OS and has Parallels 12 in there new sleep/background mode.
I try to get the machine to always switch to the "other" O/S at least once a week just to have any "Cloud" folders sync and any software update. I use Adobe Create Cloud which is always pushing updates to their products so I like to keep all O/S versions up to date.
I make use of iCloud, OneDrive and Adobes CreativeCloud, so I'm always switching O/S's.
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