AE performance: PC vs Bootcamp MAC

[Steve Roberts]

In the past, you were technically able to run the old software, but under an unsupported license. Or something.

At any rate, no matter what we say, you’ll still have to call Adobe. Take note of the name or employee number (whatever) of the person to whom you speak. Their fulfilment department has been known to forget previous conversations.

[Tim Wilson]

Or you could do what I do, and run your PC CS3 under Bootcamp, if all you’re looking for is to run it on a Mac box.

That said, you really, truly can run your PEE CEE apps as MAC apps with VMware Fusion and Parallels. The PC apps live in the doc, drag and drop between things like Mac TextEdit and your PC version of Word, etc. It’s EXACTLY like running a Mac app. You don’t even see the Windows desktop. You see the Mac desktop behind your application windows.

It’s astonishing. Go to the company websites to see demos and screenshots that will blow your mind.

This way, you can transition to the “true” Mac apps over time, as your budget — and your willingness to wrestle with Adobe on the phone — will allow.

Your cross-platform buddy running it all on a MacBook Pro,
Tim

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[Brendan Coots]

I agree, in fact VMware seems to be a much better option than Bootcamp or Parallels (which is terribly limited). Ultimately, I prefer to run apps in their native host just to make sure I am not sacrificing RAM/system resources to some middle-man application, but we do own some PC-only apps so I’m happy to use VMware where needed.

[Julian Sixx]

Hi

[Tim Wilson] “Or you could do what I do, and run your PC CS3 under Bootcamp, if all you’re looking for is to run it on a Mac box”

I want that CS3 smokes on a Mac Pro (2x 3Ghz Dual Xeons,8GbRam,Nucleo pro) ;-).So,what i’ve read so far about Win on Mac that would not really be a good solution to run the new upgrade under Bootcamp or???Please consider that the most of my other Win apps run only on Win 32Bit.

Basically,i’d like to see that the Mac Pro gets the maximum out of CS3 and on the other hand i’d like to run my Pc-only apps on the mac.So,what would you recommend?

Does Win xp Home Edition work on the Mac via bootcamp or VMware fusion?Which xp versions work?

i find the VMware fusion option pretty good.

[Justin Porter]

I’ve been holding my pitchfork, waiting, for a while now…

As a Motion Graphics artist who uses both PCs and Macs, I want to strangle Steve Jobs every time I go to the Apple store to configure a Mac Pro and see that the best (and only) pro video card option is a 2 generation old Quadro 4500 and they’re still charging $1500 for it as an add-on!?!

Typical Apple behavior, and none of their users seem to care, or maybe even know any different, so they keep on doing it.