There might be a few autocad programs for the Mac, but they aren't the industry standards, and I don't get to pick which one I use. All those different programs are incompatible, so you just have to use what everyone else uses.

The problem is that noone took Apple seriously for years, and now they have to make that up in a large portion of the business sector where there's a huge switchover cost. Of course that's only if they have an interest in that customer base, which I'm not sure they do.
Very true but I think Apple is slowly getting their foot in the door. It's not gonna be an overnight thing but they have more marketshare than they've ever had.

One thing about the mac I like is the quick boot ups and shut downs as opposed to the PC.

Yeah, it's like Autocad.

So what do you think of them going to the Intel Duo processor?

If you want to see what the future PC's will have look at the current Macs. Macs were the first to have dvd burners on their computers. First to have firewire. First to scrap the floppy drive. First to put built in webcams on their computers.

You can't get Pro/Engineer for a Mac, unless you run it on Parallels or Bootcamp with Windows, which defeats the whole purpose of using a Mac, in my opinion.

I use a Mac at home and a PC at work. If only they had Mac support for Pro/E...

The software that came on my Macbook is really good.

Macs are getting virii now. But I'd rather get a virus, than not have enough software any day.

What does it pay!!