Windows Vista, which you need to de-vistaize in order to get something productive out of it... Im on a mac now, and like it, but as someone else said before, xp and win 2000 are not bad at all.

Office 2007, nuff said....

3DStudio Max, while powerful, i never liked the whole parametric thing...

Itunes on windows. On a mac is ok, but on a pc is slooooowwwww

Windows Media Player. You have to right click to find how to do something simple, actually anything...

Archicad on teamwork. While regular archicad is ok, the whole teamwork thing makes no sense...

right click the offending file, get info. Scroll down to "open with, select the preferred application, and click "change all". This should fix your problem

I voted for Podium for it´s ease of use, and integration with sketchup (at least on pc),
kerkythea for it´s solid community and it´s price...
Piranesi is the most expensive of the three, but it has a completely different approach than the other two. I would describe it as photoshop 3d. It works best on npr kind of stuff, the other two are more geared to photoreal stuff

Edson,
Something like this?
Try FastStone...it does basic to rudimentary editing and is a great little app for organizing and viewing images...and its free.
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

If everything else fails, try downloading vlc player for mac, wich will playback divx, xvid, and most other video codecs. Another plus: fullscreen video and fullscreen on a second screen (useful for watching movies on a tv attached to your mac).

search for flip4mac

@unknownuser said:

On a Mac, what Quick Time codec do I need to watch this AVI? I tried DivX and that didn't work.

Todd

most shortcuts are the same on both platforms, xcept for osx reserved keyboard combinations (for example, deselect on pc is control t, on the mac, this combination invokes the text style window). One annoying issue is that for new keyboard shortcuts we can´t use the command key.

A list of features only present on osx sketchup:

-Ability to export png´s with transparent background.

-2d output is not restricted to the aspect ratio of the model window.

-Assign resolution to 2d raster output in dpi.

-Customization of the main toolbar, adding the most used commands to it.

-Mutiple models open at the same time, only one instance of sketchup.

-On the free version only, the ability to change location info

Most are minor annoyances, otherwise, skp works beautifully on osx. Congratulations on the switch

The performance of this machine was one of the biggest selling points. Before buying it, I brought the viewer and a heavy scene to test it. It worked more than ok. I was sold. The integrated graphics are not bad at all, though i had to turn off fast feedback.

You have to consider that:

a. the drivers for video, and pretty much everything else in macintosh machines are developed by apple.
b. osx is very opengl dependent. all the fancy animations and effects are rendered in the video card. Apple wouldn´t settle for a video card (even an integrated one) with lousy performance, or else general os performance would suffer.

got to scene 7 ok, scene 8 would go into bounding box, but would refresh inmediatly after orbit, 9 the same, 10 some lag (about 2-5 seconds) and refresh, and 11, really choppy, even in bounding box mode.

macbook, core2 duo, 2 GHz, 1 GB ram 80 GB hdd

the latest versions of skp free will export 2d images at the same resolution that pro can.