IBM IS THE WORST
The IBM Thinkpad I bought for Grace last year is back in the shop for the second time with a broken screen. The guy says he gets this a lot. What's worse, is the supposed 'gold' level service that I shelled out extra $$$ is not doing much good - it's going to be another "3-5 days", after it has already been 5 days.
Grace has papers and drawings to do and no computer to do them on and this is exactly the kind of bullshit I knew we were going to get when I reluctantly bought that PoS.
</rant>The only ray of hope is that VirtualPC will be fast enough on the Intel Macs to run Autocad and the like - then this problem just goes away.
Do you know if AutoCAD will run under WINE? I've been using it on my Intel Mac to run some Win32 software. Its not that great right now, but I imagine it will be much better when they finally ship them.
People have made it work, though it's not clear that the performance is acceptable. This guy at least seems to be doing ok with an older version of cad:
http://www.architectafrica.com/bin0/news200411111_wine.html
Interesting - I assumed VPC will become WINE-like, but I didn't think about running WINE itself.
random piece of gnerd trivia you might already know: the co-author of AutoCAD also wrote the hacker's diet online at http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ ...
"Those who do not find time for exercise now will have to find time for illness."
--The Earl of Derby, 1873