![]() ![]() I have been begging Autodesk to write a Mac-native version of Revit for many years now, but to no avail. Both the software and the hardware on the Mac side are far more well-crafted than their PC equivalents, and in my experience Mac-based tech support is also vastly superior. To borrow a structural metaphor, Windows tends to suffer brittle failure, where the Mac OS is ductile. In my experience, Windows works great until it doesn't. I run Windows in Parallels so that I can run Revit, but I would dearly love to be Windows free. Sure PCs are cheaper, but I spent more than enough money and time replacing them after crashes to make up the difference in price. I haven't bought a PC since, and I hope never to have to again. Mind you, it isn't as fast as it was, and I doubt there's much more useful life in it, but still. ![]() I bought that machine in 2011, and it still runs. ![]() ![]() I had always scoffed at suggestions that I should buy a Mac, but when I suffered a spate of Windows crashes combined with two PC hard drive failures and an external backup drive failure within six months (combined almost simultaneously with Microsoft deciding to stop providing Windows drivers for my aging-but-still-working plotter), I decided to take the plunge and try a Mac. I switched to Revit in 2001, when I opened my firm and ran it on PCs for ten years. It's a shame these discussions get vitriolic, but I guess this just further confirms that Americans no longer know how to discuss anything controversial civilly. ![]()
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