I've joined the darkside...

Well I never thought that this day would happen but I've succumbed to the dark-side and joined the legions of happy mac users...

yep... I've traded in my troublesome windows based PC and moved to a happier place using my Mac Pro/Macbook Pro.

Thanks to green compatriots, Chris Reardon and Dick Clarke for showing me the way...

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Elrond Burrell said…
Woohoo! So are you using Parallels for running Revit? Or something else?
7:04 am
blads said…
I'm using Parallels 4.0 and it is amazing... everything just works and its mind-numbingly fast. Using 64bit Revit I'm lovin' it... :)
10:17 am
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