[Jewelry making - Article 00412] - Re: [Orchid] Monarch CAD software

[Helen Hill]

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Hi Jesse,

>     According to a lot people the best one is Bootcamp, but it works
>     only on the newer Macs with the Intel processors. 

    My computer is one of the newer Macs with an Intel core 2 duo
    processor. 

>     There are some free older versions of CAD programs for the Mac. 

    Would such older versions of CAD programmes work on my Intel based
    Mac? 

>     Unless you have a personal opposition to using a windows PC, you
>     might consider it as option. 

    My only personal opposition to using a Windows PC is that I have
    spent almost a thousand hard earned spondoolicks (that's UK pounds)
    to buy an Apple Mac state of the art, gorgeous-looking, lovely to
    use Mac laptop and as such I don't actually like using windows
    anymore. Anyone with a Mac will know that one doesn't tend to get
    things such as viruses (computer viruses - what are they?) with a
    Mac. Yes there are occasionally some incompatibility problems but for
    the most part, I find Macs superior to PC's. They are so
    user-friendly and install things you ask it to install, effortlessly.
    Each programme for the Mac works seamlessly with all the other
    programmes it's related to in a Mac, etc, etc. We have PC's in the
    house (my husband is BBIIGG into computers so we all (six people)
    have a computer, and my husband, for some reason only known to
    himself has about four!!! Myself and my girls all have Mac laptops,
    my husband has a Mac pro, a Mac mini and a G4 Mac laptop (don't ask
    me why) Oh and a Windows PC machine or two and my sons have windows
    machines too. Talk about excessive! We are often, all six of us on
    the internet all at the same time and it just gets silly when my kids
    are talking to each other on messenger rather than actually speaking
    to each other verbally! Crazy I know. But anyway, I have become a bit
    of a Mac snob. But as we have PC's in the house, I suppose I could
    get hubby to install some CAD software on one of them and I could
    have a play. You just get so used to your own machine. Although, as
    anyone else with a Macbook will know, there is no right click button,
    you have to use control click using the only touchpad button it has,
    which means that you can't then use a programme's control click
    function properly without constantly reassigning button functions. 

    Thanks for the advice, I'll see what we can come up with. 

Helen
Preston, UK
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