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 canāt get Lunchbox to install. Any ideas?
If youāre hoping to use Revit and Rhino.Inside Revit (for more than 10% of your time), youād be better off getting a Windows Machine as Rhino.Inside and Revit donāt 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, itās 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 Iām lucky.
Some important GH plugins donāt run in Mac. For no-can-parallel operations like boolean, Iām not sure if macās cpu outperform windows
Iāve 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. Iām 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.
Iām afraid that Iām living on borrowed time with a twelve year computer and that Iāll need to replace it the near indeterminate future. Better sooner that later. Iām considering a 14" MacBook Pro M2 with 8GB memory. But Iām 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 yearsā¦ 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 Iām having buyerās remorse about the decrease in screen size. Iām 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 itās still more or less an entry level machine but my computing power needs remains rather modest. As I mentioned, the MB Pro Iām 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.