SOLIDWORKS compatibility with Virtual PC 7.0... yeah SOLIDWORKS on an APPLE....

Ok so the long and short of it is that I know a guy who just bought a
15 inch G4 powerbook, 1.5 ghz G4 processor 512 RAM... Yadda Yadda.....
so knowing all this, I informed him that he could emulate the windows
xp Pro environment to run applications that were not available for MAC
Platform (ie. SOLIDWORKS). He completely flipped out. Thought it was
great and wanted to know how we could find out if Solid Works was
compatible.

Any body out there? anybody got insight into this?

Thanks!

Chad

 

Hi....Chad..
it should works...but U need moore RAM.... (1GB ?)
George.

 

I've seen it work but SolidWorks will not officially support it because
it is not a supported OS.

Ken M

 

It will "work". The problem is if you want performance too, it will
probably be dissapointing.

the other consideration is that (if you are in Europe) the 25pin dongle
will not work on the mac (as they never used this connector on
PowerBooks). I think in the US you either do not have to have the
hardware key, or can use a USB key. In which case it may work.

Every chance I get I press SW to consider using UNIX OSX in the
future... I do not expect it anytime soon if ever... sadly.

 

I have just read Longhorn is in M8-2 (whatever that means), next is M9, then
Beta 1 will be shown at WinHEC 2005, on end of april in Seattle.
After a while, a couple other Betas will be sold to customers, the real OS
may be ready before 2008. Wana bet which SP it will be?
;=)))

JM