[Sarc]

Working on the design side of things in the Architecture and Interior Design field, I fortunately have no use for Revit (and very little for AutoCad) and use my machine for Sketchup, Vray, and Adobe CS related tasks. Apart from one motherboard replacement, my 4 year old Dell M3800 has been a reliable beast that runs circles around many desktops.

I have found Macs the weaker option for modelling as well as ensuring a stable day-to-day operation and collaboration with college and client's various PC-based platforms...especially when a deadline is near. For some, the people in my crew that insist on Macs are the ones always having technical issues of some sort that causes dips in production or (worse) technical faults in front of the client. I tend to use the Mac for the initial client meetings (show) and the Dell when I have to get the job done (go). Other people's mileage may vary.

On a brief sidebar, its unfortunate that the curriculum (and most Arch curriculums today) is integrating Revit/Cad so soon in the educational process. If he is an analytical nuts and bolts kind of person that will have a career on the technical side of things I suppose that’s fine, but the first couple of years should be used for teaching the basics; critical thinking, problem solving, hand sketching, presentation skills, business principles, that sort of thing.

I can’t imagine spending my first year of arch school immersed in Revit/Cad. Dreadful.