#Running revit on mac 64 Bit#
If you have a new macbook (age < 1 year), you could most probably use win7 64 bit & parallels 5 (plus boot camp as a fallback solution) - provided you have more than 4gb of ram. Please keep in mind, that win7 is not officially supported for revit 2010: Under boot camp however, revit 2010 and windows 7 is a great combination - at least i haven't had any problems so far. Mine's got 4 gb, so in my current setup i am not using revit under parallels unless it's an emergency. so, as i said: it depends on the availability of ram. In my opinion, running windows 7 under parallels only makes sense if you have a lot of memory to spare - windows 7 is a very memory-hungry operating system. I have recently installed a new bootcamp partition on my mbpro that runs windows 7 pro 64 bit and i am re-using that partition under parallels 5. In both cases is Windows XP or Windows 7 recommended to run Revit? In my old setup i used the same licence under boot camp and parallels (winxp 32 bit + parallels 4). Of course - but you only need a separate license if you do not re-use your boot camp partition under parallels. Do you need a working windows license for Parallels?
Once you experience first signs of lagging, try allocating more memory to parallels (although i usually stick with the value recommended by parallels). lots of groups (xrefs seem to be a bit less memory-consuming) My feeling is that one or more of the following will slow a revit project down under parallels once it gets big / complex (btw: the size of the rvt-file is not always a good indicator for complexity): Unfortunately, there is no golden rule as to where the magic barrier is where a revit project will not run smoothly under parallels any more (at least not to my knowledge). However, once the project gets too big or too complex, revit will slow down significantly. With a fairly recent mbpro parallels 4 or 5 with winxp should work fine, provided you have at least 4 gb of ram. What works best on the MacBook Pro of Parallels or Bootcamp?ĭepends entirely on the project size and complexity.
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