SOLIDWORKS compatibility with Virtual PC 7.0... yeah SOLIDWORKS on an APPLE....

Ok so the long and short of it is that I know a guy who just bought a

15 inch G4 powerbook, 1.5 ghz G4 processor 512 RAM... Yadda Yadda..... so knowing all this, I informed him that he could emulate the windows xp Pro environment to run applications that were not available for MAC Platform (ie. SOLIDWORKS). He completely flipped out. Thought it was great and wanted to know how we could find out if Solid Works was compatible.

Any body out there? anybody got insight into this?

Thanks!

Chad

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-the-chad-
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What for buy an Apple and emulate PC ?! :) It will never be 100% compatible !

I recommend buying PC next time :)

Reply to
Jerry.J

Yup, it will work, if my prior trials with earlier versions of Mac OS 9 and VPC hold true now in OSX and VPC 7. I use VPC 7 for a number of things but haven't tried SolidWorks, because I see a 7x slowdown in opening large Word files over native OSX or Win XP.

When I did use SolidWorks a bit on my Mac, I would click and then lean back and wait for things to happen. I just couldn't be efficient that way.

Bo

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Bo

Hi....Chad.. it should works...but U need moore RAM.... (1GB ?) George.

Reply to
gefi

I've seen it work but SolidWorks will not officially support it because it is not a supported OS.

Ken M

Reply to
kmaren24

It will "work". The problem is if you want performance too, it will probably be dissapointing.

the other consideration is that (if you are in Europe) the 25pin dongle will not work on the mac (as they never used this connector on PowerBooks). I think in the US you either do not have to have the hardware key, or can use a USB key. In which case it may work.

Every chance I get I press SW to consider using UNIX OSX in the future... I do not expect it anytime soon if ever... sadly.

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daniel

Unfortunately for SolidWorks, I really, really, really doubt Longhorn is going to arrive on time and up to snuff. Hence, I think we are going to be stuck with Win XP or Win 2000 until maybe 2008-2010.

I think the crew at Solidworks knows this, too. But SolidWorks & their customers are so heavily invested in MS's OS, that they are seeing only one solution.

I have not heard one report of any programmer/analyst type saying anything about why the "new" Longhorn file system should be so much better than Win XP or Unix. Wonder why not?

Just because Longhorn ships doesn't mean it will be worth it for me to become a human gunea pig.

Apple has done great with OSX, but I never put 10.0, 10.1, or 10.2 into full time use. It took 3+ years and OSX 10.3 before I made the jump & implemented. Time is too costly to lose to things which are not quite right.

Bo

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Bo

Last I heard, WinFS would not be ready to ship with Longhorn. So it'll just be NTFS again.

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Dale Dunn

"Bo" a écrit dans le message de news:2004112911031916807%bclawson@tilikumcom...

I have just read Longhorn is in M8-2 (whatever that means), next is M9, then Beta 1 will be shown at WinHEC 2005, on end of april in Seattle. After a while, a couple other Betas will be sold to customers, the real OS may be ready before 2008. Wana bet which SP it will be? ;=)))

JM

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Jean Marc BRUN

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