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As far as worrying about software...you can run pretty much anything on the new intel macs using Parallels, bootcamp, or many of the other Windows emulators. And the system doesn't even struggle running two OSes at the same time (unlike the older powerPC versions of Macs). It's pretty amazing -- you basically get two computers for the price of one.
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Yeah, but if he's gonna buy the thing, and then stick to almost entirely Windows software, you just paid more than you should have for what is basically an okay Windows computer that, depending on how you have it setup, can't do some of the things he needs to do, and maybe even some of the things he might not do often, but might want to do.
One of the questions he had was how well it could run AutoCAD. AutoCAD, depending on the extent you use it, is a pretty beefy program. Maybe for small things, running it in Parallels or VMWare Fusion, it will be fine, but if you get to a large project, it's gonna bog down really fast. Virtualization is never for that purpose.
If he wants to play a system-intensive game that's only for Windows, that's just out the window, because hardware 3D support is just lacking. The best you'll get is software 3D rendering, which is taxing, to say the least.
And if you're going to run BootCamp to get into Windows constantly, that's just annoying, and also counter-intuitive to the entire reasoning for him to get a Mac in the first place.
The best I can say, from what's given, is if he needs it as a serious work machine, it just isn't going to work out. If he just wants one to fuck around with and has the money for it, just get a refurb system.
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It's a heck of a lot better than using a memory hog program like WindowBlinds to try and make your Windows desktop look like a Mac =P
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The Mac OS X interface is incredibly inconsistent and is nothing worth copying.
There's nowhere I can't reach.
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