It would be interesting to find out how well Mastercam does on a Mac but even if it's slower, my next computer is going to have a big Apple on the lid. I was a Mac guy. I'm still a Mac guy.
I bought this Winblows machine for
only two reasons: Solidworks and Mastercam. If there had been
anything competitive out there for the Mac, I'd have bought it instead. And believe me Jay, you've made me a believer in MC. I do like it now but this PC...ahhh...not so much.
Life with this PC has been trojan after worm after virus. Firewalls, anti-virus software, careful surfing and it still gets infected. Now it's reloaded for the fourth time and I'm running under a restricted user account. None of the programs run right. Winblows won't let the programs write preference files. Mastercam starts with errors. Solidworks starts with errors. Even MS Word has fits because it can't write a 'Normal' template when I start up.
I'll either run Mastercam and Solidworks under a PC partition on the Mac, or I'll just strip Windoze down on this HP, disconnect from the Internet and just run it as an engineering workstation.