System requirements for 2013 products

I heard from a colleague today that the 2013 version of the Revit family of products will require SERIOUS computer power. If this is the case (we should find out in April), then AutoCAD-based products might require stronger, faster, bigger computers to run as well. I noticed a huge drop in performance on my laptop between AutoCAD 2011 and 2012. My desktop systems run AutoCAD 2012 and AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 fairly well even if they are 2 and 4 years old respectively.

Are Autodesk, Microsoft and other companies' product offerings getting too big and too demanding for the ROI (Return On Investment)? I am not in a production environment but if new hardware is needed to run these various packages, then budgeting for these needs will be very important during the migration period.

With the fall 2012 arrival of Windows 8, I suspect many companies will wait until the year 2013 and migrate to Windows 8 and Autodesk 2014 products and skip the 2013 products altogether.

Office 2003 Support Ended April 14th, 2009

I was reading on a few blogs that official support for Office 2003 ended on April 14th, 2009. If it wasn't for the fact that to use the Spreadsheet Linking feature in AutoCAD 2008+, it REQUIRES Microsoft Office only (OpenOffice is NOT supported), this wouldn't be a big deal.

Here is a good article about migrating away from Office...if you can... ;-)



Je lisais sur des blogs que le support pour Office 2003 terminais le 14 avril 2009. Si ce n'était pas pour le fait que pour lier des chiffriers avec AutoCAD 2008+, qui REQUIERE Microsoft Office seulement (OpenOffice n'est PAS supporté), ceci serait moins grave.

Voici un excellent article sur l'élimination d'Office...si vous pouvez... ;-)