![]() ![]() I use VMware Fusion, but Parallels Desktop is very similar - you have to buy one of these, and you have to buy Win7 64bit. ![]() You may want to ask a Photoshop expert on what it may require. Your Mac only needs enough RAM to support one operating system at once - so the 8GB stock Mac is fine, but you might want to get 16GB anyway - or even 32GB if you are doing work on big photos a lot. Bootcamp comes free with your Mac, but you would need to buy a copy of Win7 64bit. I'm pretty sure you have full access to the data files (i.e the DataCAD drawings) when you are booted to Mac OSX. If you go with Bootcamp, then you are running Windows fully "native" on the same computer - you have to reboot and choose which operating system you want. So it is an expensive paperweight at the moment. I would like to hear of others that have had this experience, as i am not yet fully transferred to the Mac to produce any work. I will still have to resolve the home key i take on board the idea of an additional windows keyboard however, i am trying to only carry around one peice of hardware hence the reason for pursuing the idea of remapping the existing Mac keyboard to work on the W7 side with DC12.Īlso the DC12 is located on the C:\ drive and i have created a transfer file off this drive as well so that after saving a drawing to PDF when in the mac side i can view the bootcamp drive and attach and send to a client. Sync and then merge- thanks to the help desk from apple. I have been able to fix the font size in the menu and also spend hours and finally transferred my contacts e mail etc via my iPhone after much worry. Thank you all for the assistance and i will "NOT SHOUT" any more but just quietly request. I run Win 7 Ultimate on the windows box that runs my CNC router, and I'm pretty impressed with it, but for my daily driver? I get some money I'm gonna get me a big box Mac, load it to the gills, go to town. I'll admit if I get stupid with the number of apps I try to run at once the Macbook starts to pant. When I get home I can slave the Imac screen to the Macbook (or vice versa) open the application I was running earlier, and work on files in exactly the same software and hardware environment I was using in the shop. It's fitted with the same keyboard and trackball as in my shop, has parallels running and all the same Widows applications loaded. When I made the switch to Macs April 2009, I also bought an IMac 24" for home. Needless to say the registry free Mac OS makes that less painful than Windows, but still it's possible in both systems. I'll soon kill the WinXP bootcamp partition, upgrade to Parallels 6 so I can run Windows 7 in 64 bit.īest of all, when one OS goes toes up I can (and have), lift everything off the drive with the other OS, clean up the mess, and carry on. I can read, load and save files across the partitions. I can pass off primary control of devices like USB gizmo's and burners from OS to OS at will.Īll email comes through the mac os (windows is locked out from the internet, period). Or I drive with both hands and navigate 3d models with the trackpad and fine steer with the logitech trackball. I use a Logitech diNovo keyboard for the windows XP side and the macbook keyboard for the Mac side, a trackball for windows cad/cam and the mac trackpad for the mac side. It's really sweet, I have a Mac 24" monitor for Windows, the MacBook screen for the Mac World. I'm still running Dcad (Plus and 10, Luddite that I am) on my old windows machine, I run Rhino 3D, Enroute, Vectric Aspire and RouterCad in Win XP concurrently with OSX Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro via Parallels 5. ![]()
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