1. Autocad 2012

This full version re-release of AutoCAD 2012 for Mac is provided for customers who require a fresh install. New Apple guidelines require that any software package installed on OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) meet certain security standards; in order to comply with this requirement, this re-released full version of AutoCAD has been built to include the changes distributed through the. This complete package download should only be used if you require a complete re-install of the AutoCAD software, for example, you're changing machines, Technical Support has suggested you re-install, etc. If you have already installed AutoCAD 2012 on your Mac and are just applying the patch, instead.

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I have been a Windows fan since the beginning of time. I cut my teeth on Windows 1.03 and was a vocal advocate of Windows NT long before it was cool to be such. However, no matter how hard I try, I can't get excited about Windows 8.

Like many of you, I downloaded the Developer Preview last fall. And at first I thought it was the 'bees knees.'

All that scrolling and zooming of tiles seemed so cool and new, while the various enhancements to the traditional explorer shell - Ribbon UI, et al - felt long overdue. But then a funny thing happened on the way to the recent Consumer Preview build: I bought a PlayBook. After a couple months of swiping myself silly, I no longer find Windows 8 cool. Or compelling.

Or even interesting. Yes, I've downloaded the CP. However, I doubt I'll bother installing it outside of VirtualBox. I just don't see the point. I have all the 'Post PC' goodness I need in my PlayBook. Everything else now feels old and a bit derivative, including Windows 8 Metro.

Am I alone here? Has anyone else 'lost the magic' with Windows after being seduced by the PB's swiping ways? RCK Last edited by rkennedy01; 03-01-12 at 06:37 AM.

They may have lost you but the majority consumers and business will still use Windows 8 as their os. I still like windows more than playbook. There are so many things you can do on Windows that you can't on playbook. Playbook is a nice tablet, but it is nowhere near replacing windows. Let's be honest, if it wasn't because of the price, a lot of us wouldn't be here.As will I. However, I can't remember being this indifferent to a major new Windows release. And while the price point may have enticed some of us to try the PB, it was the QNX user experience that prompted many of us to stay.

I enjoy my PB and find it to be a great device. The QNX kernel is a tight, high performance multitasking engine that probably nothing in the tablet market can touch. But the user interface is rudimentary. Windows can do so much more. W8 tablets probably won't be nearly as fast and probably won't be able to handle as many simultaneous running programs.

However, just being able to script processes and schedule utilities and scripts is far beyond what a PB can do. Right now PB apps can't be put in an adjustable window and placed on the screen along with other apps. That stuff is basic to Windows. Remember, Windows has been in development for over 20 years.it shows.Adjustable windows?

You're faulting the PB for utilizing the standard Post-PC UI model that even Microsoft is adopting? Remember, Metro is all about full-screen apps and doing away with the complexity of traditional windowing systems that don't map well to the tablet/touch format. Note: There's no question that Windows is the more 'mature' platform. It's also more sophisticated in terms of the kinds of services it exposes to developers, et al. As the author of numerous Windows benchmarking tools and commercial performance monitoring solutions, I'm intimately familiar with the inner complexity of the Windows NT computing stack. However, with that maturity comes a lot of baggage that is not applicable to the Post-PC model. And that's what I'm focusing on here: Whether or not Windows 8 offers anything to lure a PB user away from the RIM fold.

And so far, in my case at least, it doesn't. Will I continue to use desktop Windows (likely version 7) when necessary? For example, when I need to run Visual Studio or wish to play a session of STO. However, over the past few months I've made a conscious effort to wean myself off of Windows as my day-to-day productivity and communications platform, and the PB is the first Post-PC device to make that possible for me.

The playbook is a toy compared to the expectations of Windows 8. If that suits your needs, then the playbook will continue to work for some. But if MS can pull off Win8 successfully, it will make a big leap in computing. You are talking a full PC OS that is tablet ready and can handle a legacy applications, anything developed in Silverlight (including the current Windows Phone Market), as well as the next gen Office Suite. We are talking about running full versions of Photoshop, Acrobat, Autocad, insert software title here, etc.

QNX and it's microkernel concept will never be able to do this or anywhere close. Right now I have a laptop and a Playbook. When Win8 comes out and is proven stable, I will likely ditch both. I won't need multiple devices. But alas, MS has to deliver on this (and that is a big concern of mine). I might not by the first iteration of hardware. Depends on what happens.

The whole point of Windows 8 is to give users a relatively seamless user experience across PC, tab, and smartphone platforms. Windows 8 tabs are going to be da bomb. I'm afraid, for RIM's sake, I'd much prefer a tab that's an seamless adjunct to my PC than what the PB is today. Most people are always going to need PCs, so I don't see a great future for the PB. It's a neat tab to have in the present day, even with its limitations, but I would bet that sometime in 2013, I'll be moving to a Windows 8 tab, and probably even a Windows 8 phone.

Adjustable windows? You're faulting the PB for utilizing the standard Post-PC UI model that even Microsoft is adopting?

Remember, Metro is all about full-screen apps and doing away with the complexity of traditional windowing systems that don't map well to the smalltablet/touch format.Key point that was omitted, the only reason metro UI was created was for small form factor ultraportable products, at 11'12' of screen size and even 10' with the right dpi the windows original UI is more productive and better to work with than something like say, a fixed carousel or no windows at all like ios and android. Anything larger than that and the so called 'post pc' UI is a complete waste of screen real state, where only one application can occupy the screen. They are not even 'adopting' it as in moving past anything else, its just another UI in windows 8, it still has the usual 'windows' system, plus the ability to change the UI completely to any you want. In fact, there are many UI alternatives for windows that replace most if not all the usual taskbar. The playbook is a toy compared to the expectations of Windows 8. If that suits your needs, then the playbook will continue to work for some.

But if MS can pull off Win8 successfully, it will make a big leap in computing. You are talking a full PC OS that is tablet ready and can handle a legacy applications, anything developed in Silverlight (including the current Windows Phone Market), as well as the next gen Office Suite. We are talking about running full versions of Photoshop, Acrobat, Autocad, insert software title here, etc. QNX and it's microkernel concept will never be able to do this or anywhere close.

Right now I have a laptop and a Playbook. When Win8 comes out and is proven stable, I will likely ditch both. I won't need multiple devices. But alas, MS has to deliver on this (and that is a big concern of mine). I might not by the first iteration of hardware. Depends on what happens.Therein lies the difference between a mature desktop OS and a microkernel that 98% of the time is used in embedded applications, but that was taken to tablet market. The playbook and any other small sized tablet is good for communications, web browsing and quick note taking/reading, portable multimedia, small tasks, but when it comes to actual professional tools, none of the current tablets are able to even reach what mac OS, windows or full linux (no android) can achieve.

Tablets are becoming more popular to the consumer because of portability and the subset of tools they provide, consumers do not need all the juice desktop OSes can offer, whats the most they do? Browse the web, facebook, youtube, netflix, check calendar, email and chatting, thats it, even the blackberry OS can accomplish these tasks. Many people say tablets are replacing what their desktops/laptops can do, but when in fact, its not replacing anything, its just giving them what they actually needed all along from a technology product, there is a difference in that, its just providing a subset of all the capabilities.

I don't know why people praise Win7 so much, because MS lost be since Win XP. They don't have any idea what customers want. Ribbon interface? Gimme a break. What they did with recent product is to cause a lot of churn for all users to learn new interface. They were a little more consistent from Win95 to WinXP. Now they are tearing apart everything on every Windows release.

There's no consistency in user interface design and every time I use their new product it frustrates me since all menu structure and GUI controls are all out of place. I guess it's no big deal if you've never used any of these, but they've got to learn from Apple on this - MacOS throughout the changes the core GUI menus have remained consistent. The Windows 8 with Metro GUI on desktop is simply a joke. No one's going to use it yet they force it upon users. I'm afraid they might fail again trying to mix desktop PC design with tablets. I don't know why people praise Win7 so much, because MS lost be since Win XP. They don't have any idea what customers want.

Ribbon interface? Gimme a break. What they did with recent product is to cause a lot of churn for all users to learn new interface. They were a little more consistent from Win95 to WinXP. Now they are tearing apart everything on every Windows release. There's no consistency in user interface design and every time I use their new product it frustrates me since all menu structure and GUI controls are all out of place.

I guess it's no big deal if you've never used any of these, but they've got to learn from Apple on this - MacOS throughout the changes the core GUI menus have remained consistent. The Windows 8 with Metro GUI on desktop is simply a joke. No one's going to use it yet they force it upon users. I'm afraid they might fail again trying to mix desktop PC design with tablets.rotflmao.

Adjustable windows? You're faulting the PB for utilizing the standard Post-PC UI model that even Microsoft is adopting? Remember, Metro is all about full-screen apps and doing away with the complexity of traditional windowing systems that don't map well to the tablet/touch format. Note: There's no question that Windows is the more 'mature' platform. It's also more sophisticated in terms of the kinds of services it exposes to developers, et al. As the author of numerous Windows benchmarking tools and commercial performance monitoring solutions, I'm intimately familiar with the inner complexity of the Windows NT computing stack. However, with that maturity comes a lot of baggage that is not applicable to the Post-PC model.

And that's what I'm focusing on here: Whether or not Windows 8 offers anything to lure a PB user away from the RIM fold. And so far, in my case at least, it doesn't. Will I continue to use desktop Windows (likely version 7) when necessary? For example, when I need to run Visual Studio or wish to play a session of STO.

However, over the past few months I've made a conscious effort to wean myself off of Windows as my day-to-day productivity and communications platform, and the PB is the first Post-PC device to make that possible for me. RCKI think he reference to the ability to split screen between different app in Metro UI, which is very nice and clearly ahead of its competitor in tablet space. Also the multitasking UI/UX and the Charm feature are very well done.

Given that the Playbook still playing catch up with iOS and Android in term of 'standard Post-PC UI model' features like push notification, local notification, geofender reminder, for 3rd-party apps. I don't think it can compare with Windows 8 tablet.

Speaking of multitasking, with such behaviours like the need to micromanagement apps, crash or refuse to open when out of memory, lack of reliable background service (need keep app alive for reminder, alert?!) I think the Playbook current solution for multitasking is neither efficient nor elegant. I think RIMs future with QNX is brighter. Posters talk about seamless integration, it seems like only QNX is imbedded in a wide variety of industries and devices and the potential for seamless integration 'with the world' is probably one step above any other OS A OS kernel used widely in embedded market do not guaranteed seamless integration, just like WindowsCE from MS. What is the product and service company offer and how well its work together decide a seamless integration experience. Merely a open source (prior to RIMs acquisition) kernel in a custom OS from years ago hardly have anything to do with current RIM playbook OS and upcoming BB10 OS, let alone seamless integration. Last edited by Vindicators; 03-01-12 at 10:51 AM. The playbook is a toy compared to the expectations of Windows 8.

If that suits your needs, then the playbook will continue to work for some. But if MS can pull off Win8 successfully, it will make a big leap in computing. You are talking a full PC OS that is tablet ready and can handle a legacy applications, anything developed in Silverlight (including the current Windows Phone Market), as well as the next gen Office Suite. We are talking about running full versions of Photoshop, Acrobat, Autocad, insert software title here, etc.

QNX and it's microkernel concept will never be able to do this or anywhere close. Right now I have a laptop and a Playbook. When Win8 comes out and is proven stable, I will likely ditch both. I won't need multiple devices.

But alas, MS has to deliver on this (and that is a big concern of mine). I might not by the first iteration of hardware.

Depends on what happens.i am slightly optimistic that MS finally gets it. I've been reading as much as i can about OS8 and it seems like integration is the MS watchword. They speak of a central repository for data and a generic client model. You do stuff regardless of the device you happen to be using. I like their concept but the execution will determine the success of the platform.

Sound familiar? Execution matters, applications matter, usability matters, time matters. Just my simple minded opinion. They may have lost you but the majority consumers and business will still use Windows 8 as their os. I still like windows more than playbook.

There are so many things you can do on Windows that you can't on playbook. Playbook is a nice tablet, but it is nowhere near replacing windows. Let's be honest, if it wasn't because of the price, a lot of us wouldn't be here.My sentiments exactly.

I bought the Playbook for its low price. Yes, QNX is smooth and user friendly once you get the swiping down. I like it more than other tablets. But a Windows replacement? I'm old fashioned and still don't trust putting critical data in the Cloud. Tablets rely on the Cloud for their full functionality.

As a stand alone device, the Playbook, like most tablets, is limited. My sentiments exactly.

I bought the Playbook for its low price. Yes, QNX is smooth and user friendly once you get the swiping down. I like it more than other tablets. But a Windows replacement?

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I'm old fashioned and still don't trust putting critical data in the Cloud. Tablets rely on the Cloud for their full functionality. As a stand alone device, the Playbook, like most tablets, is limited.Please do not mix up OS and PC vs Tablet. Windows on Tablet will not be the same as Windows on desktop/laptop PC.

I see the convergence but it's too early to tell if there will be a true convergence. You guys are too funny with the windows 8 thing. I do recall a lot of people here on crackberry (nobody really in the real world) was saying that Windows phones were going to take over the number 3 spot in smartphone sales when they were released ladt year and I've yet to see that fabricate even while RIM is struggling. Not even in the US do I see them picking up much steam! SO relax, yes Windows 8 will appeal to some consumers, but in my opinion, nothing to be making as much noise as you guys are.

Fi it does though, so be it, but you guys twisting up your undies about it sure won't change anything. I personally find Windows 8 unappealing and I also don't know you guys have noticed, most people are switching to MAC computers or at least saving to buy them and only have windows laptops because for the most part, they're cheap. Am I the only one who doesn't want my desktop to operate the same way as my tablet?

If they HAD to, i wouldn't mind a more desktop environment like windows 7 merging down to a tablet experience but this move to make the desktop experience more like the tablets is infuriating. Stop making things always 'bigger' taking up more space. Just because it works for tablets doesn't mean it works for mouse work. Gestures on a non touch device are painful. I've used the developer preview of Win8 a bit on 2 machines. One with basic gesture touchpad and one with traditional mouse.

The touchpad was ok, not a great experience. The mouse was unusable IMHO.

Having to use keyboard shortcuts to just scroll left or right in 'metro'. Or having to use horrizontal scroll bars (if it were verticle, at least the mouse wheel could be used). If what i've seen from win8 in the dev preview is the final verdict, I will not be going win8. You guys are too funny with the windows 8 thing. I do recall a lot of people here on crackberry (nobody really in the real world) was saying that Windows phones were going to take over the number 3 spot in smartphone sales when they were released ladt year and I've yet to see that fabricate even while RIM is struggling. Not even in the US do I see them picking up much steam!

SO relax, yes Windows 8 will appeal to some consumers, but in my opinion, nothing to be making as much noise as you guys are. Fi it does though, so be it, but you guys twisting up your undies about it sure won't change anything. I personally find Windows 8 unappealing and I also don't know you guys have noticed, most people are switching to MAC computers or at least saving to buy them and only have windows laptops because for the most part, they're cheap.I have to say you have no vision for the future.

Most people are switching to MAC? I have to say you have no vision for the future. Most people are switching to MAC? LOL.Exactly, MOST people are definitely NOT switching to Macs. According to this link In Feb 2010, Mac held a 7.1% market share while Windows had about 87-88%. In Jan 2012, Mac held a 9.0% market share while Windows had about 84%. Granted, Mac OS is gaining and Windows in losing, but that means that still to this day, MOST people are buying Windows machines.

If you want to go by another link, you will see that the numbers for the Mac OS are even worse than I pointed out and Windows still holds over 90% of the PC OS market share. In fact, Microsoft has 3 versions of it's OS that all hold greater market share than all Mac OS's combined. IN FACT (again), Microsoft has an OS that is over 10 years old that holds almost 8 times the market share as all Mac OS's combined. Last edited by anastasiophan; 03-01-12 at 12:24 PM.

You guys are too funny with the windows 8 thing. I do recall a lot of people here on crackberry (nobody really in the real world) was saying that Windows phones were going to take over the number 3 spot in smartphone sales when they were released ladt year and I've yet to see that fabricate even while RIM is struggling.

Not even in the US do I see them picking up much steam! SO relax, yes Windows 8 will appeal to some consumers, but in my opinion, nothing to be making as much noise as you guys are. Fi it does though, so be it, but you guys twisting up your undies about it sure won't change anything.

I personally find Windows 8 unappealing and I also don't know you guys have noticed, most people are switching to MAC computers or at least saving to buy them and only have windows laptops because for the most part, they're cheap.roftlmao!!!