What Mac's might run AutoCAD 2010?
AutoCAD 2010 requires the following:
For Windows XP Pro or Home edition and 32bit processing: Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6GHz or higher with SSE2 tech;
For Windows Vista and 32bit processing: Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 3 GHZ or higher with SSE2 tech;
For Windows XP Pro x64 edition or Vista and 64bit processing: AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 tech or AMD Opteron processor and SSE2 tech or Xeon processor with Intel EM64T support & SSE2 tech.
Does the iMac 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB memory meet these standards? If a HD partition is setup exclusively for Windows, is BootCamp or Parallels required if only Windows is to be run, no system switching?
Thanks for all input on how to make the AutoCad program work.
Sorry the delay in replying to the suggestions, but I was hoping to get some "real world" data on which Windows OS some AutoCad users experiencing.
Re The hatter's suggestion of building a Windoze machine, the user of AutoCad will also have need of a machine that will operate ProTools, so that really seems to eliminate building a 4-core machine.
I had thought of a Mac Tower, but the proposed user wants to be mobile and able to use AutoCad at school (the school computer lab is dank, dingy and apparently repugnant).
Kappy and Aggie_Guy109 I'm not sure if I understand how the drive(s) would be setup. Assuming a MacBook Pro, there is no way to have the Windows system contained entirely on an external HD? Basically, you're saying that it is not possible to simply boot into either OS exclusively? (Last time I tried to run Windows as on an Orange PC card, and that was a mess.)
Thanks for you thoughts and direction.
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