Architectural Desktop 2007 on a Mac-Intel Laptop?

[TheCyberPoet]

Little background first:

I'm a mac consultant (since 1990), graphic artist (since '88) and fabricator of motorcycle accessories (all separate professions). My significant other is working on her master's in architecture at USF (Univ South Florida) and is at the stage that I need to obtain a laptop for her studies to run Architectural Desktop 2007 [ADT07] (can't seem to talk her into VectorWorks Architect for either platform).

 

While I've spec'd out a very nice DELL M90 for her to run her apps that will probably be ordered next week, I can't help feeling that I'm possibly doing the wrong thing... I'd much prefer to put her on a dual-boot or parallels-equip'd Mac (CoreDuo) laptop with the same basic hardware specs and let her run ADT07 on it under Win, then have her bounce back to the Mac side to handle web-surfing, emails and other high-exposure/high-risk endeavors for stability and support reasons.

But rather than re-invent the wheel and find out that there is some basic reason that ADT07 won't run after I spend $$ on an unit (such as video drivers, open-bios boot issues, etc), I figure I'll simply ask here -- IS ANYONE RUNNING ARCHITECTURAL DESKTOP 07 ON THEIR MAC (CoreDuo) LAPTOP?

 

Additional Questions:

I know that ADT07 doesn't take advantage of the dual-processors in a CoreDuo or any other PC for the 2-D and almost all of the 3-D work (according to their own website support & discussion forums). Does VectorWorks support multiple processors on either platform in it's current iteration?

Pro's/Con's using VectorWorks Architect vs ADT07?

 

Thanks in advance for your insights and responses!

=-= The CyberPoet

[AJLynn]

I've seen Autocad 2007 run on a Macbook Pro 15 under Bootcamp and it worked fine. Don't know anything about ADT. But I believe they've improved the OpenGL support in 07, e.g. you can actually use it now, which would make Bootcamp better than Parallels. (For now at least, Parallels doesn't support 3D video card acceleration.)