Quote - The Mac is a good system.  I wish you well with it.

The major drawback will involve waiting an extra 6 months for the new software that PC users have been working with already.  Except in those cases where there is not and never will be a Mac version of the program, of course.

True and Not True all at the same time.

Most 3D/CG apps release both versions pretty much simultaneously. Games and certain DX-dependant apps tend to take a bit more time to port over, but this is increasingly not the case as time goes on. Both Poser and D|S nowadays release Windows and Mac versions simultaneously.

I believe that Silo and Rhino are the only real apps that I've found to be Windows-only; my older version of Rhino 2 OTOH runs just fine in VirtualPC (which runs a Windows 2000 instance).

I shovelled over all my old PC-based Runtime stuff to OSX ab't 3-4 years ago... aside from legacy .rsr's that needed converting to .png, I have had no problems. Even today, .rsr files can be opened and read 99% of the time on the Mac.

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