Best Technic for Architectural Workshop? On which OS?

[Anonymous]

Dear Colleagues,
We want to organize new Architectural Workshop and buy new powerful technique and have some questions to people they work in large firm where they have/had enough experience and knowledge in CAD/CAM Management.

I wish to hear from you on which newest computers you work and lease bring short list of problems that you experience with them?
Last time I'm hearing more and more: "Mac computers are the best" + "We experience more problems with ArchiCAD 9 on Mac's, than on Windows". And the problems are so much different.

I have never used Mac's before and I'm not sure that this will be easier or practical as just continue work on Windows platform, because of possible problems during share process with PC's of my colleagues.

What's logical to organize new office under Mac as main system and some PC's/Workstations as secondary or on the contrary?

Are there some specific mac+ACTeamWork9 problems, rather to using of Servers?

Note: "I'm asking about quality, power and practice and not about prices."

Thank's in advance.

[archislave]

Also, the great thing about the finder is that you can drag the project folder to the left verticle panel of the finder and a shortcut will be placed there. One click will take you there. Very simple and powerful.

[Anonymous]

Tom Waltz wrote:

"I don't think it's too much to ask users to be aware of where they are saving their data."

Sorry, Tom, I think that's a bit lame. I was talking about the "Save as" function on a MAC. Suppose Apple in their wisdom decided to make the "Save" function work that way in OS XI. Then, each time you saved any file, instead of defaulting to the folder you read it from, you'd have to check which folder it was saving to - which would default to the folder you last saved some other file to.

You'd have to agree that would be nuts!

But would you still just say it's not too much to ask users to be aware of where they are saving their data?

Most of us have PCs at home and take it for granted that the operating system looks after these things for us.