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Well ..heres my problem.. i have a limited budget!! due to the fact that im a student...this last semester i used a Sony Vaio VGN-Fe850Fe and my proyect had lots of geometry so ...my laptop kept crashing and just couldnt make a single decent render...soo heres my situation do i buy A) Imac 2.4 GHZ intel core 2 duo 4gb and 500 gb hard drive orrrrrr B) Hp quad core 2.2Ghz, 8gb ram ,500 gb hard drive,... the reason i post is that this hp has better specs but ive heard that the imac even with lowers specs might run better Revit .... besides ive never been a mac user before and... i just hated when vista crashes or runs out of RAM..also Mac Pro is not an option its out of my budget Thank!! any comment will help!!
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P.S my Sony Vaio is a VGN Fe850fe with 2 gb ram and inter(R) core(tm) 2 Cpu t5600 @1.83ghz ,windows vista 32 bits again thanks to anyone that comments!!
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The iMac is such a great, beautiful machine but you will have to purchase Parallels Desktop 4.0 to run Revit on Vista (64bit-recommended) It's 80 bucks, maybe less with a student discount! I have had much success in running Revit (zero crashes) and I have the exact same specs as the iMac one you described. Just be sure to dedicate at least 2G of RAM to the Windows platform.
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thanks for the comment...i read in other posts about it..its the only way to instal revit??...and i do use other cad programs such as 3dmax, and revit structure, ohhh and autocad (just in case) ...im actually hopping for the imac ... thanks!
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You'll get more out of your setup if you use Apple's own Bootcamp (comes free with any new Mac) to boot into Windows when neccessary, instead of running a virtual machine. If you do it like that you can run any Windows application you want.
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