#Revit mac software#
They’re just a bougie consumer electronics and software brand now post-Jobs.
#Revit mac pro#
Apart, I generally feel abandoned by the company as a designer, and pro equipment and software user (RIP Aperture, Mac Pro, anything upgradable). But it’s got some serious Revit and pro computing issues. I’m not going to Mac bash, as Automator is still great and I use and enjoy the OS, especially with Rhino coming to town. You also need double the software, updates, and such. You will need to set up a ~10GB exFAT “bridge” partition to move files in between the two sides, as their file systems are incompatible.
One thing that’s funny is the Mac side won’t run a slightly older Mac external DVD drive, but the Windows side will. Battery management on the Windows side is absolute shit, and I know people run into stupid performance issues. The easiest boot choice option, reFit (gives you a nice menu to choose which side to boot) uninstalls with every Mac update. Multi monitor support can be troublesome.
#Revit mac install#
The new keyboards have such a failure rate that Apple has a special fixit program.īootcamp has rarely been a clean install process for me, and drivers have required tons of work to get things going like sound, sometimes they just fail and require restart, and I could never get a Mighty Mouse to work right. What will melt will be your lap, and your peripheral connectors like the SD card I previously used as a Bridge drive. Also, the new upper tier MacBooks are objectively dogshit from a build quality standard, and they all overheat and the OS has to throttle the speed of the computer to keep it from melting. I’ve run Revit on Macs since 2009, now have a standard windows workstation, and I caution against it but just from a Revit pro user side. They run at early double the price of the XPS 15 and both of them are used with external keyboards due to the 'escape' key being better on bluetooth versus the touchbar and they both require a dock to link up to the HDMI equipped monitors. There's 2 Macbook in the office so far and I wouldn't say they are any better than anything else here. Although to get the most out of Unreal Engine/any other GPU 3D programs you'll want an external monitor and an eGPU for either machine - if you get the 13'' then straight away, you'll get by for a few years on the discrete GPU within the 15''.Īside to the above in our consultancy office there's a reasonable split between Dell XPS 15 (2018), Surface Book and Workstations.
#Revit mac upgrade#
If you have an external or just want better portability then go for the Macbook Pro 13'' but upgrade the processor to 2.7Ghz Quad and the RAM to 16GB. If you don't have a good external monitor then go with a Macbook Pro 15'' 2.6 hexacore with 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Now talking general 3D programs is a catch all and as such massive variation is at work, some 3D software is CPU intensive, others GPU intensive. Rendering is rare and can be thrown into the Autodesk Cloud anyway rather than melting the laptop case for fun.
I'm not talking about rendering things I'm talking about projects with linked in Architect and M&E models, hundred drawings or so etc. High clocks and a 'few' cores is good for Revit, it is a middle of the road type 3D program, 16GB will be fine - you need screen space for the Project Browser, Properties and Modelling Environment windows.
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