Has anyone used Solidworks on a MacBook Pro? Especially the 2011 models. I'm trying to determine whether a Mac would be adequate for my Engineering studies at college. I've used Solidworks on some pretty sucky hardware and I don't want to be stuck with that for 4 years.
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directeuphorium Notebook Evangelist
their website says only edrawings will work with osx. They recommend a Windows OS. And list windows as one of the system requirements.
Just because you can install windows on a mac, doesn't mean it'll work as well as a dedicated windows system. -
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I'll tell you what. I have an MBP for the first time, and 2 things I really like about it, the battery life, and the form factor. It's slim and light. That really means alot when you are always on the go.
I'm still on the fence about OS X. Some things Windows just does better. -
Im running solid works on parallels desktop 6 and its pretty slow. I have 2010 MBP 13" with 4 gigs of ram. I think if I increase ram it will be faster. Also I also think running on bootcamp will be faster as well since I get to use the 4 gbs of ram. I only have 1.5 gbs for my virtual machine windows 7 x64.... I dont want to use bootcamp b/c driver issues.
Overall its fine. I can still use solid works to do all of my hw with my MBP.
Solidworks on a Macbook Pro
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Deathcon_5, Apr 11, 2011.