But thinking farther into the future, Apple's move towards Intel has made this porting easier, so if we ever want to port, it'll lower that cost.
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Now, from a software vendor's point of view, you can have your software run on Mac without having to do anything. While there's always been interest, it just didn't happen. The cost of porting to another platform is very high. The popular CAD applications, like Inventor, run only on Windows. Mathews (Autodesk): In the short term, it's just the opposite.
Will Boot Camp make life easier for some people? Probably. Most of our customers use AutoCAD for drafting and use form.Z for design. They use both Windows and Mac to get the best of both worlds.
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Most professional design offices today use mixed platforms. Will Boot Camp be disruptive to the CAD industry?Ĭhris Yessios (auto-des-sys): I don't see why it'll be disruptive. If you're a hacker and you want to inflict the most damage, that's what you'll do.īrian Mathews (Autodesk): When you're running Boot Camp, you're still running Windows, so you get everything that's good and bad about Windows. It's more accurate to say that there are more people trying to attack the Windows platform than the Mac. It's hard to say whether one environment is more secure than the other. So you might get a virus on your Windows portion of the machine, but you're not going to catch that on your Mac portion. Sean Flaherty (Nemetschek): In the Boot Camp Windows environment on the Mac, you'll still be as vulnerable to Windows viruses, but it doesn't make your Mac environment more prone to viruses when you're just running Mac OS. My guess is, the disadvantage of running Windows under Boot Camp is that you won't get the security features of Unix, so you'll be susceptible to viruses. They usually attack the weaknesses in the OS. Does running Windows on an Intel-based Mac offer more security than running Windows on a PC?ĭave Kropp (auto-des-sys): Viruses have nothing to do with hardware. Tell us about virus attacks in the Boot Camp scenario. Click here to read Part 1 of this series. Interviews were conducted separately and responses were edited and consolidated for clarity and length. How will Boot Camp affect the predominantly Windows-based CAD industry? We talked with four CAD software experts to gain some insight: Brian Mathews, senior architect in Autodesk's Collaboration Services group Chris Yessios and Dave Kropp, president and senior vice-president of auto-des-sys, makers of the formZ modeler and Sean Flaherty, CEO of Nemetschek North America, makers of VectorWorks.
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Last month, Apple launched Boot Camp, a free beta tool that lets Mac users run Windows and associated software from their own machines. Enlisting in Apple Boot Camp, Part 2 2 May, 2006 By: Kenneth Wong Experts from Autodesk, auto-des-sys and Nemetschek discuss the realities of running Windows-based CAD on a Mac