paolo- Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Alright, so I've been using a JaS version of osx86 on my 4 year old campaq desktop and it's great running quite nicely, no problems for install. Anyhow, I'm going to university this fall in mechanical engineering, so I'll eventually be doing CaD work in SolidWorks. And was wondering if the macbook, 2.4ghz/4gb ram would be strong enough to make that work properly. Not that I would need to make huge models, probably the biggest being around 100 elements and no real need to use renderings a lot. Or if I have to do rendering and other stuff of that type, I might as well do it on one of the university's computer to use their large displays (though I'm planning on getting a flat panel screen as a secondary screen at home). Yes I'd be using solidworks under bootcamp. So basically, my question is, Is a fully loaded macbook (not pro) strong enough to comfortably run smallish solidworks projects ? Or do CADs need a "real" graphic card ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroDreams Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 it should run fine. we run solid works on these crappy old pcs at work. (less than 1ghz). its not the latest version but it runs. so you should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 I run VectorWorks 2008 on my one year old MacBook (2GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB Ram) and it works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aram Vartanian Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 I run VectorWorks 2008 on my one year old MacBook (2GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB Ram) and it works great. Where can I find a serial for it?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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