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Rhino3d and Virtual PC...ok? or timebomb?
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A friend and i are debating on if it was a good or bad idea to run Rhino 3D on a Powerbook 550 using Virtual PC.
He has alot of Wintel programs that he doesnt want to rebuy for Apple, yet he really is interested in my Powerbook.
Has anyone run Rhino3d using Virtual PC?? how bout the PC version of Photoshop and Illustrator. Those would be the only 3 programs he doesnt want to rebuy. I told it might be possible, but slow. I dont know though
Anyone have any good expierence at this?
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Originally posted by burton7:
A friend and i are debating on if it was a good or bad idea to run Rhino 3D on a Powerbook 550 using Virtual PC.
He has alot of Wintel programs that he doesnt want to rebuy for Apple, yet he really is interested in my Powerbook.
Has anyone run Rhino3d using Virtual PC?? how bout the PC version of Photoshop and Illustrator. Those would be the only 3 programs he doesnt want to rebuy. I told it might be possible, but slow. I dont know though
Anyone have any good expierence at this?
Sloooooow. Slooooooooow.
Adobe offers "crossgrade" pricing on those two.
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A PowerBook 550?
As in the Japan-only successor to the 540c?
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no, he means a Titanium 550MHz ...
(I hope)
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:: frankenstein / lcd-less TiBook / 1GHz / radeon 9000 64MB / 1GB RAM / w/ext. 250GB fw drive / noname usb bluetooth dongle / d-link usb 2.0 pcmcia card / X.5.8
:: unibody macbook pro / 2.4 Ghz C2D / 6GB RAM / dell 2407wfp - X.6.3
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Originally posted by Sarc:
no, he means a Titanium 550MHz ...
(I hope)
Hehe, I hope so, I had a 540c before I dropped it (oops). That thing was ass-slow and had the hinge from hell.
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yes a Ti 550 
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Honestly, I wouldn't do anything more processor intensive than spreadsheets or small databasing with VPC. Maybe some light Visual Studio programming even. But Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop?? Forget it, VPC emulates a 4 Meg video card (you can adjust the allocated virtual VRAM now i think, but it still sucks big time). Rhino would probably refuse to run.
For any serious 3D work on Mac OS X, he'll need Maya (there's a crippleware free student version). And honestly, depending on how much RAM you have in that thing, the native versions of Photoshop and Illustrator will feel slow at times.
But yeah, if you're desperate to sell *ahem* i mean, helping someone switch, it's always nice to "include" the software your friend needs 
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it's a pity that you can't search words with only 2 characters like '3d'
anyway look up rhino, nurbs, cad etc and you will find relevant threads
better yet look at architosh or point your friend there
there are lots of mac 3d applications for lots of different purposes and they probably all have close-to-free student versions
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The low-end version of SolidThinking is very similar to Rhino...probably a better solution that Virtual PC.
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Originally posted by burton7:
A friend and i are debating on if it was a good or bad idea to run Rhino 3D on a Powerbook 550 using Virtual PC.
He has alot of Wintel programs that he doesnt want to rebuy for Apple, yet he really is interested in my Powerbook.
Has anyone run Rhino3d using Virtual PC?? how bout the PC version of Photoshop and Illustrator. Those would be the only 3 programs he doesnt want to rebuy. I told it might be possible, but slow. I dont know though
Anyone have any good expierence at this?
Check out TouchCAD. Costs slightly less than Rhino but is a real Mac program.
www.touchcad.com
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