Comments on: SolidWorks clarifies future direction with respect to Mac

By: Anthony Frausto-Robledo LEED A

Anthony Frausto-Robledo LEED A — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:13:33 +0000

So what do you want to be when you grow up? What do you want to do? If you want to work in film the Mac is the only direction to go. Macs do cost a bit more money but you must compare them carefully. Today’s iMacs are actually extremely cost competitive with A-list level rivals. You can always find a dirt cheap B-list PC somewhere, but it is not an apples to apples comparison. Apple has world class tech support and online resources. Only a limited number of other PC companies have that. The main arguments for you are:

– Macs today are actually cost competitive feature by feature (measure wisely)
– Macs come with superior software that PCs don’t (iLife suite and more…)
– More and more studies are showing Macs are cheaper to maintain
– Macs don’t catch malware and viruses that end up crippling your PC
– More and more software is become web-based making Windows irrelevant
– Macs can run Windows and Windows software
– For film Final Cut Pro is the industry standard

Hope this helps.

By: Anthony Frausto-Robledo LEED A

Anthony Frausto-Robledo LEED A — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:13:33 +0000

Hope this helps.

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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:24:40 +0000

[…] “SolidWorks clarifies future direction with respect to Mac,” Architosh, Feb 19, 2010. […]

By: Anthony Frausto-Robledo LEED A

Anthony Frausto-Robledo LEED A — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:52:24 +0000

You are welcome to quote Architosh.

By: fcsuper

fcsuper — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:07:16 +0000

SolidWorks Corp may not have been clear as to the their lack of intent to product a Mac product. Having a Mac on stage and demonstrating their product on that platform is a bold statement. For them to come back and say “They are not products or future products” is really saying “Ignore the demonstration at SolidWorks World. That was us just teasing everyone with vaporware.”

At SolidWorks World, Jeff Ray also made some comments about this functionality, which I talked about: http://www.fcsuper.com/swblog/?p=823

Hey, would you mind me quoting your quotes in my future article about this?