Revit Running on Intel Mac

[Scarab]

Are you using the apple wireless keyboard and mouse?

Do they work with Revit?

[cadkiller]

If he is he doesn't have a special windows key anymore. No more wondows shortcut key combinations.

[BomberAIA]

I don't use the shortcut keys anyway. I'm a mouse guy, I can't type. I get my Mac pro today.

[Andre Baros]

Thinkpads don't have the Windows Key either but you can map the extra alt key (or apple key or any other key) to act like the Windows Key.

I was just working with a group of students who had all switched from Archicad on their Macbooks to Revit on Bootcamp or Parallels and it worked flawlessly for 14 or 15 of them. For one of them (with an identical setup to all the rest) the machine crashed so often in Windows that it became unusable. Apple actually replaced the unit and the problem persisted so it must be the user, but the tech guy at school couldn't figure out what they were doing differently.

[BomberAIA]

I got my Mac Pro yesterday. Turned it on and it didn't search for anything. My INTERNET was there with my network, & printers. Amazing. It works like a computer should just like Revit that works like a Cad program should. Today I get my second HD and I will load Bootcamp, XP and Revit. I'll report back.

[Batman]

I can't believe how excited I'm getting about YOU getting your new Mac/s.

Thanks for the regular updates.

Will you be doing the Revit Render Test?

[erikbjur]

Are you using the apple wireless keyboard and mouse?

Do they work with Revit?

They work great. I use the wireless version of both. I set the middle button on the mouse to "Button 3" so it works with pan/zoom. I also set the right click to act like a right click. It now works the same as my PC. Someone mentioned the windows key. Anything you could normally do with the PC keyboard, you can do with the Mac keyboard. The mac "Clear" button is the "number lock" on the PC when run under Parallels. The "Windows" key is the "Option" key on the Mac.

Also 500 mb of ram is more than enough for parallels to do what it needs to do. I have attached a screen shot of my memory usage with two 8,000 sf houses open in Revit on parallels.

You can now have the best of both worlds. Revit on a Mac.

[BomberAIA]

I installed bootcamp, XP and Revit on my new MacBook pro today. Runs faster on my new Mac. Monday I will install it on my new Mac Pro. I'm very excited about switching to Macs.

[cstanley]

Is it that much faster, really?
Ya'll have gotten new macbooks.
Logic tells me that your old pcs were out of date (hence you needed a newer computer.)
if that's true, then the speed comparison might not be exactly accurate, since an older machine is (typically) slower.

are the computers you're comparing speedwise comparable? sim. hardware, components, etc?
or are these personal macs you've gotten, and simply decided to experiment by installing all of this?

[BomberAIA]

My laptop was less than a year old. Revit runs great on my new Macs. I had 2 gigs of ram & a 2.0 Centrino processor.