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VMware Fusion goes Beta
Rahul writes "Fusion is a new VMware product that enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows and Linux in virtual machines on Mac OS X. The Mac virtualization market is presently dominated by Parallels and it will be worth watching if VMware can gain the mindshare despite its late entry. Ars Technica reports: 'The nice thing about VMWare Fusion is that it already supports some of the stuff that the Parallels Beta2 released yesterday just added, such as USB 2.0 and most USB devices, CD/DVD drive support, and drag-and-drop between environments (unless the guest environment is Linux, that is). You can also run multiple Fusion environments at once or assign multiple processors to your virtual machine(s), if you're into that sort of thing.'"
Oh..my..god...
Did you honsetly just say that AutoCAD is at the top of the parametric tool foodchain? I'm sad to inform you that you are horribly mistaken. AutoCAD is a bastard child using a mathematically inferior kernel.
Seriously. Go learn Pro/E, Catia, NX, SolidWorks, SolidEdge, UGS. Anything but AutoCAD. That thing is basically only good for doing line art. I can't count the number of times AutoCAD couldn't figure out how to properly add fillets to a solid object. Or even better, how many times it just decided to crash because it didn't want to tell me that it couldn't figure out the math (and yes, this error can be reproduced perfectly in under 2 mintes). Or better still, how many hours of my life I've wasted while waiting for it to regen the drawing. Hell, I've tried to send drawings to their support staff that explicitly point out these faults, and they didn't even want to hear about it. AutoCAD was king of the small scale desktop engineering market 15 years ago (it has never been king of high end CAD). Times have changed. I suggest you change with them.