Just wondering if I can run zbrush in my new Mac Pro…has anyone done that, and if you have, how did you do it?
If you install Windows on a dual-boot partition you can use your existing license.
If you wish to run ZBrush natively on OS X you will need to purchase a Mac license. You can sell your PC copy and use the profits to help cover the Mac license costs or you can purchase a Mac copy at a 50% discount.
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will I get the benefit of the mac if I run windows zbrush on the mac,. i.e., RAM etc
You can dual boot with Boot Camp (comes free with apple osx). It let’s you boot up windows or osx on startup.
It’s really easy to setup.
I don’t mean to hijack this thread, but this question is within the same topic so I thought i’d post here rather than creating an entirely new thread.
I just bought a MacBook Pro and now have BootCamp installed with XP on the Windows partition.
If I get online and download using the Mac partition, will there be any problems transferring the program to the Windows partition later ? I’m not sure if you have to activate immediately as you download, or if can do this later.
Of course the obvious thing to do would be to just download the upgrade using the XP partition to get online with right ?
Just wondering what my options were here, since you only get one shot at downloading the upgrade.
I’m not sure if there will be problems downloading to one partition and copying to the other. If the file format systems are incompatible between the two platforms, you could have a problem. It’s unlikely, but possible.
You would be better off going online from the PC partition, downloading, installing, then activating.
It doesn’t matter how you acquire the upgrade as long as you transfer it to the platform that the upgrade will eventually be used on.
The Mac handles downloads in a platform-agnostic manner in that it will allow you to download EXE files written for Windows, even though the Mac can’t open them.
However, I know that the Mac cannot write to a Windows partition formatted using NTFS so you won’t be able to transfer the upgrade file to your Windows partition. Conversely, if you boot up into Windows, you won’t be able to access the file on your Mac’s partition.
You have a few options though, the first which Auric has mentioned.
You could put the file on a thumb drive formatted using FAT-32, which the Mac and Windows can read/write to, or burn the upgrade onto a universally accepted format like ISO, to transfer you upgrade to the Windows partition.
Also, there is a fantastic new driver written by Amit Singh, of Google fame, that allows Macs to read and write to NTFS partitions! FUSE So, if you intend to keep Boot Camp and Windows around, FUSE is the best news for Mac users since the arrival of Boot Camp.