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    Default Revit Running on Intel Mac

    Corner 1: IBM T43p w/ 1 gig ram.
    Corner 2: MacBook Pro Dual Core w/ 1 gig ram.

    See attached.

    http://onmac.net/

    Install was moderately difficult. Read the Wiki at onmac.net.

    You have to reboot to switch between OSs. Graphics do seem a bit sluggish (no graphics driver is yet available). Open times, view creation times, save times all see fine. Its more a matter of view rotation that shutters.

    Oh yeah - need a two-button mouse...

    Hey Guy! Getting closer!

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    Default Re: Revit Running on Intel Mac

    Test 1: Execute Journal File of Revit Hotel project (49.2 megs). Worksets enabled. Open, render, save and close.

    Zip of MP4 file attached. That's right. Quicktime required.

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    Default Re: Revit Running on Intel Mac

    Hmmm... interest is peaked... but I'm not following you... a bit too cryptic... care to elaborate?

    (and I'm not seeing any quicktime attachment here...)

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    Default Re: Revit Running on Intel Mac

    Ok - a bit more detail (and hopefully the file). Basically I started up the Revit Hotel project (created in 5.1 - but upgraded to 8.1). Then I selected a view, rendered it, exported the view, saved the project file and closed Revit.

    The resulting Journal file and Revit project was copied to the MacBook. The Journal file was then executed on both systems simultaneously. From open to close, the MacBook finished in 3:50 and the IBM kept going till 5.20.

    I admit...completely unscientific.

    Worksets seem fine. Keyboard Shortcuts work. Rendering alone is faster by a third.

    A bit ironic considering its still a few days shy of April 1st. But then again, I believe that was Mr. Jezyk's handiwork.

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    Default Re: Revit Running on Intel Mac

    Sweet! Thanks for sharing!

    I assume you accomplished XP on MacIntel using the recently revealed Narf hack?

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    Default Re: Revit Running on Intel Mac

    Quote Originally Posted by irusun
    Sweet! Thanks for sharing!

    I assume you accomplished XP on MacIntel using the recently revealed Narf hack?
    Yeah is was the Narf hack from onmac.net. It took a few tries to get it XP to install. (Back up your data and wait untill you get XP running before you copy it back over.)

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    Default Re: Revit Running on Intel Mac

    Here's a zipped Quicktime file of both laptops rendering. 300dpi, 1600x1600. Took around 2 minutes on the MacBook and around 3:30 on the IBM.

    The friend with the MacBook has signed up on AUGI. Works for a Mac-centric firm here in Charlotte. He'll monitor the thread for any technical questions.

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    Default Re: Revit Running on Intel Mac

    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Read
    The resulting Journal file and Revit project was copied to the MacBook. The Journal file was then executed on both systems simultaneously. From open to close, the MacBook finished in 3:50 and the IBM kept going till 5.20.
    Hey, sometime in the next few weeks my new gig is supposed to be getting me a new Duo from Dell. Basically the crappier Dell/WindowsXP version of the MacBook. If you'd throw that file my way I'll run the same test, I'd be interested in seeing if the EFI vs. BIOS and such make much of a difference.

    And on a side note, I just found out from a sysadmin friend of mine that EFI booting would allow a 32-bit machine to use up to 12 gigs of Ram. Apparently it's done all the time for Linux servers (that can happily use EFI for booting). Sigh. Windows XP 32 bit and Vista 32 bit in the future, apparently won't support EFI booting (only the 64 bit systems will) and so I'm betting will continue to have the 2-3 gig overhead for memory... Modern technology at it's finest.

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    Default Re: Revit Running on Intel Mac

    How are these tests fair if you are comparing a single core PC machine versus a Dual Core Mac machine?

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    Default Re: Revit Running on Intel Mac

    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Read
    I admit...completely unscientific.
    It wasn't a test of fairness. It was just a comparison.

    But then there's this (care of http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/):

    "GearLog, a blog associated with Digital Life has begun benchmarking Intel Macs running Windows XP to compare the machines to PCs running on similar hardware. Amusingly, the MacBook Pro's score for Photoshop performance beats every currently shipping PC laptop running on the identical Intel CoreDuo chip (only an Acer came close) from PC Magazine's testing."

    So who knows. Multiple OSs in one box. Concurrent performance. Neat.

    -Phil
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