Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephen Kowski
Firstly, no one on your entire team has a windows machine to code the robot? really?!?! I am truly shocked, almost to the point of disbelief
|
Of course there are team members with Windows machines available. As I mentioned above, we will need Windows regardless to download code to the cRIO. In my opinion, the real value of the Mac edition is that team members that live in an all-Mac household (myself included) will have the opportunity to study and learn about Labview in a more comfortable and familiar environment. Many of these team members may not be able to obtain a Windows license, or may not possess the time or technological acumen to set up a working Windows environment.
Quote:
|
Second, I understand your complaint about the philosophy of FIRST, but unfortunately I think we all need to look at this more pragmatically. The pragmatic view of this is that we are being given something F R E E and this a donation from a corporate sponsor.
|
I do not expect NI to port new components to the Mac simply at the request of a FIRST team. However, it is another matter entirely to provide a piece of software that already exists. I understand that the existing Mac version has some additional limitations, but in many use scenarios, it would be far more convenient.
Quote:
|
If you can afford either the dual boot (which I believe is less than $100) or the Mac version of labview on your own I would say that would be the best option.
|
The Labview student edition is available for Windows only. As far as I can tell, the cheapest version of Labview for Mac is the full development system, at $2599. Dual boot presents additional challenges, like creating an extra hard drive partition - which might require the purchase of a larger hard drive.
Quote:
|
Trying to cajole them to give the mac version is probably going to a) cause you unneeded frustration and b) is probably not going to pan out with the result you want.
|
Agreed on both points. Oh well.
David