I use grasshopper nearly all the time in my designs, rarely a project without grasshopper, so Im worried it may be annoying switching between boot-camp and parallels or something whenever I want to run rhino with grasshopper.

Rhino Vs Windows Mac And Basically

I would hate to spend so much money on a mac and basically have it running windows all the time.

Are you constantly switching OSX and Windows, having to save files and then move into the other platform or how do you make it worth while for the hastle.

Yes, on one hand I am switching fairly often, and its quite possible that I actually run windows more of the time than mac OS, but its really not that big a deal.

Rhino Vs Windows Software Integration And

The high cost of apple products is not just due to the software integration and mac snob factor; the machines have genuinely high-quality hardware, and theres no discounting the industrial design quality.

All the features are pretty much there, but the interface is clunky as hell and painful to use.

Im curious about how powerful it can be to run a large rhino file or heavy grasshopper file, would there be much of a difference in power if you just ran direct from parallels compared to using bootcamp.

I dont have an issue for transferring files between systems at all, both OSs read same drives.

I use windows for RhinoGrasshopper, Maya and DP, everything else on Mac.

Actually I tried and yes, its faster with the default settings.

I think something related to OSX running the Paralells, then parallels running the widows Else every thing is great.

So Rhino ends up with about 3gigs, regardless the memory installed.

The 64bit version can give the whole 4gigs rhino4 can access to each instance.

Rhino5 will still make a big difference, as the next memory limit is at about 16 ExaByte.

OSX is 64-bit, and Paralells supports win 64-bit, but never tried win 64 on paralells.

How is that working for you I ask this because for me the mouse goes crazy when rotating in a viewport.

It happens when i right-click-drag my mouse past the borders of the viewport.

I understand that the cursor is supposed to jump to the opposite end of the viewport to allow more rotation but it isnt happenning.

Whilst osx is great I prefer working in windows even as a 10 year mac user.

I dont bother with Rhino 5.0 for Mac, its way too far from fully functional.

I spend more time in other programs that run well on Mac, so I have no reason to purchase a windows computer.

I work almost solely in Rhino 5 64bit, but was drooling over an MBP.

Rhino For Mac Vs Windows