When I have to consider Iāll be making it last 10 years, itās a pretty humble investment given the hours of practice you can get, not to mention the fallback of being able to work self-employed OR to not require more frugal employers to part with money if itās not essential.
I actually turned chickenā¦ 10th gen processors (10875H) were announced for pe-order on the day it was about to be loaded onto a wagon. For the sake of hanging on a bit longer, to get the latest spec at basically the same price, I decided to hold on. Although the base clock speed is lower, the turbo speed is higher, plus 8 cores in total. IIRC, multi-threading is something better supported in Grasshopper, right? Whereas no rhino commands are multi-threaded? (The old 12.5% thing)
As a student 10 years ago I had a extremely budget laptop and Rhino was working fine. Of course I wasnāt doing any serious modeling. But the reason why people encounter performance issues is rather because they model without knowledge or get overloaded models. 300 spans there, 60 spans here, 300000 lines there, well no wonder that someone gets performance issuesš¤·āāļø. Same if you plan to render. You can render anything totally realistic or you create 80 % using a photoshop alike software for it. So yeah buying the best as you can afford is a good strategy, but you should also consider investing in other useful things, such as books and additional hardwareā¦ just saying
For sure, my current laptop of just under 8 years still copes, but also chokes.
Yeah thatās true, thankfully I dont have that issue any longer. Certain bigger models of course you want booleans to work nicely and for deformations to not take too long - displacement is another tool I use quite regularly which can really try and kill your system off.
Iām all ears for recommendations always Sorry for the off topic
Sorry for the off topic