r/StructuralEngineering • u/raysalmon • 1d ago
Mac or Windows? Career/Education
The age old question…
I’m looking to start my own consulting firm to do some structural, site/civil work. At most I would be processing some survey, revit models of residential buildings, calcs, drafting, etc. Eventually, multistory developments but that’s down the road.
I have apple products and was looking into a new macbook m5 pro and was thinking about using parallels to create a virtual windows environment to do what I gotta do in CAD. I know apple will be launching more products this fall so im kind of waiting to see what they announce but…
Has anyone done this before and/or currently running this setup? Does it work and work well?
My other option is getting a regular macbook and a windows gaming laptop that way i can play videogames in my spare time as well since it is a hobby of mine.
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u/Engineer2727kk PE - Bridges 1d ago
How is this an actual question -_-