@dcavalie
Your hardware seems fine, its your software that is causing the problems.
When you run SW on Parallels, you are essentially running a program (SW) on a operating system (Windows) on a program (Parallels) on a operating system (OSX).
With so much going on, the program will run a...
My system cost $1199 (normally $1299 - $100 student discount).
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook?mco=MTE3MjA
The most similar Dell I could find costs $999, but its not quite as nice. Same size hard drive, screen size, ram, and graphics card, but its processor is a...
On topic with the original post, I have Solidworks 08 running fine on my MacBook. Here are the specs:
MacBook, 2.4 GHz- Core2
2 GB ram
gma x3100
Windows xp (32 bit, via Boot Camp)
Solidworks 08
Everything works great for small parts and assemblies. Im on the mac for personal drawings and would...