Autocad on Macbook
By xushanna
@xushanna (78)
Philippines
July 3, 2008 10:40pm CST
I love using my macbook but i just found out that Autocad software doesn't run on macbook. I need Cad for my work, now i'm thinking should I buy a windows laptop so I can use Autocad or study another cad software that runs on mac. A lot of people mentioned Archicad which runs on macbook but I don't know how it works, whether it's somewhat similar to Autocad. I hope Autodesk would come up with something for mac, bec. it would be difficult to switch software now.
1 response
@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
4 Jul 08
Well Xushanna if you really want CAD on Mac, I found a forum which has the question similar to yours. The people there discuss getting bootcamp or parallels for your Macbook
http://architoshforums.forest.net/showthread.php?t=1860
For bootcamp, you can find that at the apple site to see some detail of the features. The program allows the user to run XP on a Mac in case a program requires windows.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html
For parallels, you can follow this blogspot about how to insall it on Macbook. Be sure to read directions very carefully for both links.
http://technoslice.blogspot.com/
Here's a comparison of the two options. In the end it'll be your choice as to which one you'll want to use to run windows and AutoCAD
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2990&article=Apple+Bootcamp+versus+Parallels
Other than that, it seemed like the AutoCad, Parallels and Macbook worked better with 2 GBs of RAM
