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Email ThisAt a Mac showroom, everything is clean lines and minimalism. You don’t have to wade through aisles of options on clunky track shelving as at Best Buy or Microcenter. The staff is easily identifiable my matching t-shirts. And no one pressures you to buy anything; having a conversation with a Mac staffer is like having a conversation with a friend.
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No Mac advantage with engineering. The Mac hardware is not suited for the intense 2D and 3D modeling we do. Also, the software for doing such is not available to Macs. Attempting to run such through virtual machines is akin to waiting for the heat death of the universe.
Not going to happen anytime soon. For some reason, as supposedly good as the Mac is, it’s still a toy for the kids to us engineers.
Part of me wonders how much time you’ve spent on a Mac, and part of me thinks that you’re just not the target audience for a Mac.
I used to maintain a serious anti-Mac stance until I ended up lacking a PC for a while and using my husband’s Mac. It was so much easier to do things on it, and I was really in love with the design and simplicity. It’s much easier on a Mac to install programs, plug and play with digital cameras and such, and much more compatible with more wireless networks. It’s far more useable than any PC I’ve ever had.
When you can find a Mac with 4 Quad Core processors, 2 1 Gb Video Cards, and 128 GB of RAM running a 64 bit version of AutoCad 2008/SolidWorks 2008/Pro-E, let me know. This is my workstation.
As for useability, 64 bit Vista works just fine, but there’s no way that Apple would sell us this kind of hardware, and there’s no way I can run these applications in native mode.
Macs can’t interface with our CNC machines or our specialized plotters.
Also, some of our staff is handicapped, and none of their specialized input devices would interface properly with a Mac.
Useability has never been a concern, I as well as most of our engineering and IT staff started out in the mid 70s with the original Motif and X-Windows. Vista allows us to get to the guts of the system and tweak it to suit us, in a way that Panther never would.
I guess you’re right, I don’t think we are even close to being in the Mac target audience.