Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station?

2014-01-22 Thread Votch
] *Sent:* 21 January 2014 10:20 PM *To:* David Rivera; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station? It worked for me perfectly using Parallels, speed wise is perfect but there is one thing to take in account, you need more memory as you

Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station?

2014-01-21 Thread Eric Lampi
The only way I have ever seen this done sucessfully is through bootcamp. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:40 PM, David Rivera activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi list, I talked to an IT guy the other day. He says

Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station?

2014-01-21 Thread Pablo Tufaro
Parallel Desktop is a good one too! P. El 1/21/2014 3:43 PM, Eric Lampi escribió: The only way I have ever seen this done sucessfully is through bootcamp. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:40 PM, David Rivera

RE: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station?

2014-01-21 Thread Angus Davidson
Hi David As per Eric mail for really heavy duty Softimage the only real windows option is to bootcamp which then runs windows. I have also had Linux runing on one of our older Mac Book Pros (no Mac OS X at all) which ran Softimage very well. Sadly a native mac version is unlikely which is a

RE: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station?

2014-01-21 Thread Angus Davidson
. From: Jordi Bares [jordiba...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 January 2014 10:20 PM To: David Rivera; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station? It worked for me perfectly using Parallels, speed wise is perfect but there is one thing to take in account, you

Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station?

2014-01-21 Thread Simon Pickard
. -- *From:* Jordi Bares [jordiba...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 21 January 2014 10:20 PM *To:* David Rivera; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station? It worked for me perfectly using Parallels, speed wise is perfect

Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station?

2014-01-21 Thread john clausing
. From: Jordi Bares [jordiba...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 January 2014 10:20 PM To: David Rivera; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station? It worked for me perfectly using Parallels, speed wise is perfect

Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station?

2014-01-21 Thread Ed Manning
Bootcamp all the way. Ran a 12-seat company on them for 3 years. Still run 2 of the workstations 3 years later. Nice things about the (old) Mac Pro compared to almost any Windows machine: looks, build quality, near silence, efficient cooling, plus you could put a Mac-friendly cheap graphics card