Hello,
I am just getting to know QGIS having taken a brief two day overview
course at GISRUK 2012 and realised that it really is becoming a
practical alternative to Arc.
One of the many attractions of it is the possibility to also escape
from windows.
So I am looking at buying an Apple Mac and was hoping for some advice :
a) What are the limits to the resources that QGIS can realistically use
(i.e. in the same way that ArcMap is still pretty much stuck with single
core 32bit processing so there isn't much point sticking 16Gig of memory
in a machine running it).
b) If I do go with Mac, am I better to install the Mac version of QGIS
or run Linux also.
c) As I am unlikely to entirely escape ESRI, has anyone experience of
running ArcGIS on a windows simulator? (i.e. do I need to divide my
resources between two machines).
d) On the course we ran the linux version of QGIS on a virtual machine.
This has some attractions in terms of managing various clients projects.
But what are the performance issues?
Process wise I am likely to need to cover the gamut, from
straightforward overlay to process models, 3D graphics and
visualisation.
Thanks in advance for your opinions.
Neil
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