TomWaltz wrote:
Djordje wrote:
Please don't kill me, but for sheer power and speed, Windows machines are kicking Macs in the behind for quite some time ... yes, the experience of using a Mac is something different and sublime, I love the Mighty Mouse, but sorry, I have to publish this in 15 minutes.
The really annoying thing about that statement is that it seems unique to Archicad. Most of the other apps I run absolutely fly on my 2.0 GHz G5 compared to the 3.0 GHz machines in the office.
it doesn't
seem
to be archiCAD, it
is
archiCAD. and plotmaker. despite reassurences that everybody at graphisoft has both a mac and a PC next to them (they do - i've seen them), i doubt very very much whether many of the developers actually
use
them on a full time basis. because if they did they would identify the cause of the glaring difference between their own apps and every other mac app they run and get it fixed.
the argument in this case isn't who's icons look the prettiest (djordje!), but that there should be no reason why the performance of mac archiCAD isn't up to the standard pc archiCAD is. especially when developers such as adobe, macromedia, etc - even microsoft themselves! - can write applications for both platforms that "absolutely fly" (to quote tom).
with regard to the original topic: i am hoping that the move to macs with intel inside will actually prove beneficial to graphisoft if a lot of their code optimised for the pc chipset can be reused. i just hope that they can then dedicate their mac optimisation resources to
really
integrating archiCAD into the mac UI.
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