Hi John!
The ASUS is A15 TUF with 2k screen, Nvidia 4060 with 8GB ram, and 15GB DDR5 core ram. I hate AMD 
but this is an AMD Ryzen.
I draw 3D printable items.
B.
Funny, I love AMD CPUs, I built my desktop specifically on an AMD Ryzen CPU To each their own I guess
You are right, and I know that these AMD CPUs are not the same as they were 20 years ago.
Yep. Mainly modeling:. Form finding and playing with grasshopper for facade articulation. I tend to use the game engine type render tools like most Architects.
Just upgraded to the MBP M3 Max, insanely fast coming from a 2017 MBP i7. Running Rhino 8 and can’t get Lunchbox to install. Any ideas?
If you’re hoping to use Revit and Rhino.Inside Revit (for more than 10% of your time), you’d be better off getting a Windows Machine as Rhino.Inside and Revit don’t run on Mac. You can of course use parallels, but I find it a wonky experience I only use for debugging stuff (and as Brian has said, it’s not supported).
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Hi Kevin -
-wim
Another thing to consider choosing a laptop is battery life. If you plan using the laptop off grid, the Macs are capable of running all day on a single charge (unless you start rendering full time)
The battery in my Lenovo that has a rtx A3000 is basically just a gimmick. It runs for 2 hours off grid if I’m lucky.
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Some important GH plugins don’t run in Mac. For no-can-parallel operations like boolean, I’m not sure if mac’s cpu outperform windows
I’ve been using this relic since Rhino 6 on the Windows partition and then Rhino 7 on both the Windows and Mac partition. I just installed Rhino 8 on the Windows partition and it seems to run fine. I’m not doing anything too heavy with it but it does tend to bog down with larger or many objects. I do little to no rendering, some Grasshopper, but mostly surface modeling.
I’m afraid that I’m living on borrowed time with a twelve year computer and that I’ll need to replace it the near indeterminate future. Better sooner that later. I’m considering a 14" MacBook Pro M2 with 8GB memory. But I’m wondering if it might be a good idea to upgrade the memory to 16GB.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Gene
I think upgrading the memory is always a good idea, if budget allows it. There is no downsides, expect the cost. Reality is that in your situation you can pretty much buy anything.
If there is a chance that you will end up using the new laptop for the next 12 years… 16GB of memory becomes a really good idea.
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Hi. Thanks for the comments. I purchased an Apple refurbished 14" MacBook Pro M2 with 16GB of memory. But I’m having buyer’s remorse about the decrease in screen size. I’m now thinking seriously about the 15" MacBook Air M3 with 16GB memory. The price is only $100 more and performance appears to be pretty much the same as the MB Pro M2. And it weighs less than the Pro. I know it’s still more or less an entry level machine but my computing power needs remains rather modest. As I mentioned, the MB Pro I’m replacing is about twelve years old. Any thoughts about the possible longevity of current models such as the MacBook Air?
That is what Im considering at the moment. Fanless machine so I am concerned about thermal throttling.Suspect it will handle modeling and GH scripts relatively smoothly.
Been playing around on an M4 Air and the viewport is more responsive than a windows PC with RTX 2060 graphics card with 12Gb RAM. Loving the performance so far.
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