Sorry for your experience. I recently upgraded to MacOS Monterey 12.0.1 and haven’t had issues.
I run SU pro 2021 Version 21.1.331 on an iMac Pro from 2017 and M1 MacBook Air. Specs are below. What I’ve noticed is that the M1 machine actually is faster and smoother than the higher spec’d iMac Pro. In general the M1 MacBook Air does everything as fast if not faster. I was really hoping you would notice a difference because I’m interested in replacing these 2 machines with a MacBook Pro 16" M1 Pro.
IMAC PRO 27"
3.2 GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon W
32 GB 2666 MHz DDR4
Radeon Pro Vega 56 8 GB
1 TB SSD storage
13-inch MacBook Air
Apple M1 chip with 8‑core CPU, 8‑core GPU, and 16‑core Neural Engine
16GB unified memory
512GB SSD storage
I am running the current version of SU Pro 2021 on the new 16" MacBook pro M1pro processor with 32gb ram, MacOS Monterrey. Both Sketchup and Layout run smoothly. No issues. But no real speed change from a 2018 15" MacBook pro. I have tested rendering with Shaderlight, but no real speed difference there either.
I had high expectations on the MacBook Pro M1 Max that I bought and return directly after trying sketchup pro 2021.
This summer I bought a M1 MacBook Air and my sketchup models were mostly unusable due to the lag and the low antialiasing edges that reminded me of my intel celeron back in 2004… I thought it was due to rosetta 1 and the 8gb of ram so I returned the computer.
But when yesterday I opened the very same sketchup model on the MacBook Pro M1 Max with 32gb of ram, the issues were exactly the same: model unusable. So very sadly I had to return the computer also since I mostly use sketchup in my work.
It is hard to even understand how Apple don’t put pressure or help out Trimble to develop a native ARM version since I am sure it would outperform any PC in the market! In my case I would buy one apple computer for all my employees, but due to the lack of compatibility I have to stick to windows.
It would really be appreciated if Trimble would only confirm that they are currently working on it with a release date so people like me (or I think at least 50% of architects in the world) could start organizing and planning their work tools…
What is happening now makes me want to switch to vectorworks or archicad and I might never come back to sketchup If I feel better supported as a professional…
I don’t know about Trimble development, but I have found most Mac upgrades to have a little or no improvements of performance in the last few years. Great machines but no progress for pro users.I returned a computer too.
Hi GMZ418, I completely agree with your post. Same case here. I haven’t returned my computer because it is the best piece of hardware I have ever used. All the other software I need has been optimized for the new chips and they simply fly.
I disagree with all the other post saying that Apple “surprise” developers with upgrades and changes to the operating system. They announce and develop the tools to adopt the new technologies months and years in advance. I don’t think Apple should pressure Trimble, that’s not Apple’s role, since they offer all the technologies and SDK for companies to adapt their software.
For example, Metal for macOS was announced in June 2015 and released a few months later with “El Capitán”. That’s more than six years ago. Trimble still uses OpenGL, which is unsupported and not updated since 2017. How many more years do they need to get over that “surprise”?
It is borderline a scam for Trimble moving to a subscription model, promising new features and updates, allowing Mac users to still pay full price for an aging and barely maintained piece of software.
I had high expectations on the MacBook Pro M1 Max that I bought and return directly after trying sketchup pro 2021.
This summer I bought a M1 MacBook Air and my sketchup models were mostly unusable due to the lag and the low antialiasing edges that reminded me of my intel celeron back in 2004… I thought it was due to rosetta 1 and the 8gb of ram so I returned the computer.
But when yesterday I opened the very same sketchup model on the MacBook Pro M1 Max with 32gb of ram, the issues were exactly the same: model unusable. So very sadly I had to return the computer also since I mostly use sketchup in my work.
It is hard to even understand how Apple don’t put pressure or help out Trimble to develop a native ARM version since I am sure it would outperform any PC in the market! In my case I would buy one apple computer for all my employees, but due to the lack of compatibility I have to stick to windows.
It would really be appreciated if Trimble would only confirm that they are currently working on it with a release date so people like me (or I think at least 50% of architects in the world) could start organizing and planning their work tools…
What is happening now makes me want to switch to vectorworks or archicad and I might never come back to sketchup If I feel better supported as a professional…
This is probably more due to the properties of your model and less to do with the machine’s performance, which we know is ridiculously impressive. I’d wager your models would bog down any machine if they take the new M1 Max to its knees.
Regarding antialiasing, I do not know what you’re talking about. The retina display on the MacBook Pros all but negates the need for heavy antialiasing at all. Additionally, you can increase it in the settings (which would be pointless, since the results wouldn’t be noticeable on such a high resolution display).
The model is a mid-complex once that worked fine in a i7 with a gtx 780x from 2013…
Regarding the antialiasing maybe I expressed myself wrongly. I mean that the edges appeared like a “saw” even when the setting were set to the highest quality in the sketchup program parameters.
This seems fishy. Any model that worked well on a mid grade machine from 8 years ago would typically work just fine or better on the new hardware. Additionally it is not really possible to have jagged edges if antialiasing is all the way up. Even with it off entirely you can hardly see the jaggies due to the high resolution display.
Please share a screenshot of this and upload the model. There has to be something very wrong causing this because it isn’t happening to anyone else.
It looks like skp 2022 FINALLY runs natively on the apple silicon! I just read this 2 min ago and have already put my MacBook Pro intel on sale .
Has anybody tried it yet?
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