Having just purchased a new MacBook Pro 16 M5 pro with 48 GB RAM, I’m wondering if anyone at Trimble has tested SU 2026 with a laptop of this configuration and, if so, what were the results. I bought the machine online from Costco yesterday so I don’t have it yet, and am doing some research to reassure myself that this will solve the performance problems I’m having with my MacBook Pro 2019 with the last of the Intel processors.
You created a thread yesterday about the same topic. I know no one that after using an M series mac has regretted buying it.
Many of us have 24 GB M4 MacBook Pro work computers, and those are quite a lot faster than the 2019 Intel Macs that we were using before we were upgraded.
Your machine has twice the memory, and a processor that is supposed to be 30% faster at GPU operations than the M4. It ought to do fairly well.
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Thanks folks! Costco has a 90 day return-if-you-don’t-like-it policy. If it doesn’t run SU like it’s supposed to it’s going to go back. I suspect, from the comments and my research on line, that this won’t happen. I won’t ask the question again.
I know the emotion and desperation you have when you get a new machine and want it to arrive as soon as possible. I’m sure you’ll enjoy your new MacBook, apple’s SOC’s are like magic, they must have the best engineers in the industry to be able to create that kind of chips.
The MacBook Pro M5 Pro arrived yesterday. I was very excited. Started the migration process with my old Mac and noticed that the power cord was not lit (neither orange or green). It was not charging. I tried it in my old Mac. Nada! Not charging. I had a dead power adapter. Meanwhile, I already started I didn’t want to interrupt it. Dilemma! I thought of charging the new one full, then the old one. The new one has a battery life of 22 hours. The old one was dying in less than 3. Problem was that the transfer of 900,000 files was estinated at 22 hours. What to do in the middle of the night?
Called Costco tech support and they hooked me to Apple. Apple was insisting that I have to bring the Mac and adapter to the store for diagnositics. This did work. I then decided that since it was absolutely the power brick since old Mac’s brick was charging both computers without difficulty, I would bring the brick and the cord to the store whitle the transfer continued.
It didn’t take much convicing to have them take the adapter back into their lab and test it. it was DEAD! Just like the fabulous Monty Python bit on the dead parraot. They had a new adapter which they exchanged and within a half hour both laptops were being fed.
The transfer ended sometime in the middle of the night and everything is functioning perfectly.
But the best is that my SketchUp actions are now instantaneous. No more twirling beachballs. The M5 pro is just what was needed. I’m going to put it through its paces and see how well it does on renders.
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