Powerbooks and Engineering !help!

fmxkid003 said:

hello, im going to major in mechanical engineering next year at college, and im going to get a new computer. i would like to get a powerbook 1.67 ghz and a gig of ram. my main question is would the powermac be able to handle cad type programs and such that they use in college engineering classes? any help/comments would be great!

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sursuciofla said:

If you mean like AutoCAD then you will need a Winblows machine unfortunately. Have you talked to your department yet? I know it is next year but you should talk to the department by phone and ask what they recommend. Or if your close by just sched and appt.

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sursuciofla said:

Yeah but it is also slow too. It is good for some programs but I don't think I would run a CAD program on it. It runs a bit slower on VPC versus a Windows machine. I do know of people who have done it but only do it because they were sick of Windows crashing so they would sacrifice speed. You can check this out if you want to see some peoples comments on it. Some are old up to as recent as 2005:

http://www.macwindows.com/VPCautocad.html

Also you can check out this google search:
http://www.google.com/search?client...+programs+run+on+virtual+PC&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

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