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Parallels releases Desktop 6 for Mac Enterprise Edition

Parallels Brings Best Windows on Mac Experience to Businesses

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Tidbits: Nemetschek, LumenRT, and Parallels news

Mac CAD/3D News: We have tidbits on Nemetschek Vectorworks, including the rendering competition they are sponsoring with Maxon; plus news on LumenRT, a new plugin for SketchUp; and finally a new Parallels product to help with PC-to-Mac conversion

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Tidbits: Autodesk University, Nvidia Quadro and next Mac Pros

Mac CAD and 3D News: In Tidbits today we have news on Apple’s next Mac Pros getting exclusive use of Intel’s new six-core Xeons; we also cover a report out on the Web about Nvidia Quadros at Autodesk University and a link to a Parallels vs Fusion article

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VMware and Parallels: Dominance in the CAD arena

With VMware clearly hustling to be in the fight with archrival Parallels, does it not make sense for VMware to establish partnerships with Windows-only CAD companies, much the same as what Parallels did with Autodesk?

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VMware Fusion 3 announced, will push CAD further

VMware heats up the competition with the announcement of VMware Fusion 3 to ship later in October. The latest release offers numerous performance improvements including a new engine and 64-bit support on Snow Leopard.

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Tidbits: Fusion update, progeCAD, Strata news

Mac CAD and 3D News: Tidbits today include news on progeCAD officially explaining how to run its IntelliCAD-based, AutoCAD compatible software on Mac computers. We also have more virtualization news in the form of an update to VWware’s Fusion and Strata Foto 3D CX news.

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Autodesk continues to embrace the Mac

Autodesk expands Mac support via virtualization officially with Parallels agreement. Now Autodesk customers can get official support for running programs like AutoCAD and Revit under Parallels Desktop for Mac.

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Parallels pushes more Windows users to Mac with new software

Parallels pulls out all the stops in creating Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition — new version provides extensive, interactive and easy to use help technology to enable Windows users to switch to the Mac more gracefully.

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Tidbits: ArchiCAD, SketchUp, Fusion vs Parallels, and Live Interiors 3D

Mac CAD and 3D News: We have new items on Graphisoft’s latest BEK winner, a Salon article on SketchUp and IKEA Planner, Parallels vs Fusion and BeLight’s latest update this month of Live Interiors 3D.

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Tips for Running SolidWorks on your Mac

SolidSmack has a story on how to run Windows-only MCAD software SolidWorks on your Intel Mac Computer.

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Tidbits: Mathematica 7 and VM Fusion 2.0.1

Mac CAD and 3D Tidbits: Wolfram updates Mathematica to version 7 with over 500 new features and VMware updates Fusion to 2.0.1 – adds performance update

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Parallels 4 – Offers More for Mac CAD/3D Users

Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac Opens Up More Windows and Linux CAD and 3D Applications to Mac Users

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Experimental 3D acceleration with Virtualization from Parallels and VMware

An Atomic article goes indepth to test out Parallels’ and VMware’s experimental support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in Windows XP virtual machines on your Mac

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