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Newbie needs some help.....

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.....but is not sure where to post it, as this is general discussion I would guess its safe here!!

At this stage I am thinking about changing over to an iMac, however, I have some issues with windows based software, please excuse me if the answer has already been posted I have searched for the answer but may have been too specific in my search!!!
The intended use of the iMac would mostly be photos, internet, word processing etc. all of which have Mac software equivalents, the problem is I really want to use Autodesk Inventor but the Autodesk website is not particularly encouraging with no support appearing to be offered for Mac users!! If I decide to go ahead will I be able to run Autodesk Inventor from the Mac os or will I need to run Windows as an os (pref XP of XP Pro) for this app? from boot camp??

Please excuse my ignorance, especially if this has already been covered.
 
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Mick,

If there isn't a Mac equivalent program, you could install Windows in Boot Camp as you suggest and run it from there. You'll need a retail version of Windows XP with XP2 on it. Then you could install Autodesk Inventor on XP.

If you do that, you'd have XP on Boot Camp and OS X on the Mac. You'd have to re-boot to go between XP and OS X. If you installed a VM like Parallels or Fusion on your Mac, you could install XP directly into the VM and then go form there. That would allow you to have both XP and OS X on the same desktop so you wouldn't have to reboot to go from one to the other, a neat way to do that...

I switched to Mac from PC in March and have been quite happy with my Macbook. Mac is a great machine. Hope you'll consider it seriously,

Noel

EDIT: Check this out: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html
 

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