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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] ArcGIS on MacBook Pro |
| Date: |
08/14/2007 01:14:49 PM |
| From: |
John Woodard |
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Hello Rixanne,
I am not sure how ArcGIS 9.2 will run on a MAC OS.
I highly recommend that you stay away from VISTA!!!!!!! The VISTA OS is a
memory hog and so far it has not lived up to the advertising hype. Stick
with Windows XP if you can. I do know that Windows XP is compatable with
most of the peripherals that you listed. In fact Dell's ship with a Pocket
PC version of windows xp that is almost seamless when syncing with a desktop
or laptop with xp.
I personally use a Western Digital USB 80 GB HD as data storage and have not
had any problems with ArcGIS 9.2.
Your raster display and 3d rendering speeds will be determined by your
processor, memory on the motherboard, and the video card that ships with
your computer. My advice is that you invest in the best possible CPU, Video
Card, and as much RAM that you can possible afford.
Don't forget that intensive graphic and processing programs (ArcGIS,
Photoshop, Pagemaker...) will really eat up battery power. So do not expect
to get six hours of operating time from your laptop's batteries when using
these programs.
I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
John
John R. Woodard, MS
GIS Technician
Chagrin Valley Engineering
22999 Forbes Road, Suite B
Cleveland, OH 44146
Ph: 330-439-1999 M-F 8-4:30 pm
E-mail: woodard@cvelimited.com
Hello listers,
I'd like to hear from anyone who is running ArcGIS 9.2 in Windows XP or
Vista on a MacBook Pro. I need to buy a new laptop and am considering a
Macbook Pro. I know it will run the software, but would like to discuss the
compatability with peripherals: Dell Axim handheld, Wacom tablet, exterior
hard drives, Dimage scanner, Canon printer.
Also speedy raster display, 3d rendering, partitioning the hard drive(s),
file management, networking, and satellite internet.
Any takers for this discussion?
Thanks,
Rixanne
Rixanne Wehren
GeoGraphics / Coast GIS Lab
Custom Cartography and GIS Projects
27401 Albion Ridge Rd. Albion CA 95410
707-937-2709 M-F 8-5
Coastwalk Mapping Coordinator
www.californiacoastaltrail.info/hikers
UC Berkeley HREC Lassen Foothills Project, mapping
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:07:50 -0700
From: "Rixanne Wehren" <coastgis@mcn.org>
Subject: [gislist] ArcGIS on MacBook Pro
To: "'gislist geocomm'" <gislist@lists.geocomm.com>, "'gislist
thinkburst'" <gislist@lists.thinkburst.com>, "'gistalk mycivil'"
<GISTalk@lists.mycivil.com>
Message-ID: <20070813190809.EAE031CC2F@mail.thinkburst.com>
Content-Type: text/plain: charset="us-ascii"
Hello listers,
I'd like to hear from anyone who is running ArcGIS 9.2 in Windows XP or
Vista on a MacBook Pro. I need to buy a new laptop and am considering a
Macbook Pro. I know it will run the software, but would like to discuss the
compatability with peripherals: Dell Axim handheld, Wacom tablet, exterior
hard drives, Dimage scanner, Canon printer.
Also speedy raster display, 3d rendering, partitioning the hard drive(s),
file management, networking, and satellite internet.
Any takers for this discussion?
Thanks,
Rixanne
Rixanne Wehren
GeoGraphics / Coast GIS Lab
Custom Cartography and GIS Projects
27401 Albion Ridge Rd. Albion CA 95410
707-937-2709 M-F 8-5
Coastwalk Mapping Coordinator
www.californiacoastaltrail.info/hikers
UC Berkeley HREC Lassen Foothills Project, mapping
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:49:36 -0500
From: jame mackson <jame.mackson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gislist] ArcGIS on MacBook Pro
To: Rixanne Wehren <coastgis@mcn.org>, 'gislist geocomm'
<gislist@lists.geocomm.com>, 'gislist thinkburst'
<gislist@lists.thinkburst.com>, 'gistalk mycivil'
<GISTalk@lists.mycivil.com>
Message-ID: <C2E62000.5AF6%jame.mackson@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain: charset="US-ASCII"
Hi Rixanne,
I can maybe help get the discussion started.
Now you didn't mention whether you are looking at doing a dual boot with
Boot Camp or using virtualization? This would make some difference in terms
of performance and overall experience.
I have a Black Core Duo Mac Book (smaller screen, older processor, less
video memory and tops out at 2GB of RAM...) and have ran ArcGIS 9.1 on it
myself (company hasn't upgraded to 9.2 long story...) but I am a Windows,
GIS focused, developer and have had very good luck with running Windows XP
using parallels on my Mac Book. With parallels there were some early issues
mostly with peripherals mostly USB issues.
Parallels has been good about new releases addressing these issues and with
their latest release 3.0, USB support has been greatly improved again as
well as hearty improvements to overall host OS integration amongst other
enhancements...
VM ware has also released a virtualization product for Mac, VM Fusion. I
have tri
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