hello, I need some advise I want to buy macbook & advise me what parametes it need (RAM, graffic …) I need it only for sketchup and some rendering program, ext. enscape, lumion or twinmotion. please write which is minimal characters for mac, and which yaer macbook air or macbook pro is enough fo…

I’ve used sketchup on an m1 macbook Pro. It runs fine.

If you want the best performance for Sketchup and from rendering plugins, then WindowsOS PC is the way to go. It is the ultimate choice in term of performance without any doubt. However if you insist on using MacOS PC, then don’t buy the new Macs that uses Apple new M1 silicon, go with older model…

Well it might run OK on top of the line M1 but once you compare it side by side with Intel based computers then you will see huge difference and you will realize what you are missing.

My everyday is an i7, top line laptop, 2020. £1700 I ran SU on a 13" M1 MBPro and it ran even better than mine! I had the same model open on both laptops at the same time side by side, and the m1 was better. I would switch, but I can’t afford it.

So strange because your experience does not match with all the reviews I saw online! Don’t know but maybe something wrong with your i7 computer which prevents it from giving you the performance you supposed to get!

[image] Aboammar: Well it might run OK on top of the line M1 but once you compare it side by side with Intel based computers then you will see huge difference Have you done this? I have and the M1 keeps up and beats Intel machines at a lot of tasks and sketchup works great. The difference is …

I have a top of the line i9 and the M1 keeps up it just fine. I’m getting the feeling you are basing everything on YouTube videos and haven’t actually touched an M1 Mac with sketchup.

[image] monospaced: Have you done this? I am a Windows person all my life, though used MacOS many times, so obviously I did not do any testing myself and I don’t even have to since we live in the internet age. However I read many independent reviews from known and trusted sources and they al…

[image] Aboammar: YouTube videos I watched confirms the same Please share the video where the M1 is compared to the i7 using sketchup side by side, and how it’s a huge difference. Thanks!

[image] Aboammar: Now, I am not talking about SketchUp The plot thickens. You really are talking about building a computer that’s custom and costs many times more, on different software altogether. Funny.

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endlessfix July 5, 2021, 3:02am 33

On the cheap get a 2015 15” MBP. Twinmotion runs fine on Mac.

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