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Cabinet Vision on Mac

12/17/17       
Ryan Millians

Is anyone running cabinet vision or cabnetware on a mac with either bootcamp or parallels. If so how well does it run? I have a windows computer only to run these two programs I would much rather use a Mac but I have never run bootcamp or parallels and don't want to spend $1,500 plus on a new mac and it not run as well.

12/18/17       #2: Cabinet Vision on Mac ...
Rich Kuban Member

Website: http://closetexperts.com

i recently purchased a used 2015 15" MacBook Pro (16 GB RAM & 500 GB SSD drive) with Sierra (NOT High Sierra) to replace a 2011 17” MacBook Pro. I use Parallels v12 (13 is newest) to run Windows 10 with KCD. I do have Cabinetvision and it runs on my machine. Does it run well? Compared to what? CV is a graphics and memory hog compared to KCD. I use Parallels because I use 2 external 23” monitors for most of my work, the laptop monitor is where I monitor other items. I usually have multiple tabs open in both Firefox and Chrome browsers along with Evernote, Word, Excel, and Adobe Acrobat app documents all while working on KCD on one of the external monitors. Would I like it to be faster? Sure. CV is just slower than KCD.

Bootcamp does not allow you to be in Windows and MacOS at the same time.
Unless you buy a new machine with High Sierra already on it, I would stay away from High Sierra. The new file structure is causing issues for many who upgrade to it.
Max ram and SSD hard drive are key. You cannot upgrade RAM on newer Macs. Hard Drives are difficult to upgrade. Better to buy an older machine like I did with more RAM and bigger hard drive. Stay away from MacBook Air, has fewer ports.

12/19/17       #3: Cabinet Vision on Mac ...
Scott Gibson

Website: http://Momentumwoodworks.com

I have CV Ultimate with S2M running on three computers using parallels in both regular mode and coherence mode. It works great. While its not necessary to boost the hard drive, I changed them to 1 gig solid state drives. Doing so changed Windows from taking several minutes to open to about fifteen seconds.

12/23/17       #4: Cabinet Vision on Mac ...
Keith Member

I have been running Cabinetvision on a 2015 MacBook Pro for 2 years now using Bootcamp and windows 10. The AMD graphics card was a little problematic at first but the new windows update fixed the graphic issue and it works great now. Will be buying a Mac desktop this year and doing the same to the new one. Love having the ability to go back to the Mac.

1/1/18       #5: Cabinet Vision on Mac ...
Wood Dust

I ran CV for years on a Mac via boot camp and it worked great . I too had trouble with the graphics card and struggled with the ability to use windows and Mac , and keeping both systems up to date and insync .

I have since started running gaming computers , MSI to be exact. And love it . I use both their laptops and all in one desktops .
While an Apple fan , using both the iPhone and iPad . For what we do I have found windows more compatible with our work , but you need to buy a good pc .


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