https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Core-envy-mac/m-p/119342#M14103 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>This has been partly discussed elsewhere however with the new core aware archicad 12 I'm just wondering about real word differences between a tricked out Macbook Pro (say 2.4Ghz 6/320-7200) or a Mac Pro 8 core (say 2.8Ghz 8/4xRAID @ 7200)<BR /> <BR /> I did a crippled demo at the Apple Store &amp; could only use about 20% of the horsepower running 4 archicads (only 1 would render) off an external FW400 drive (slow) nor being able to run VirtualBox - so it was tough to tell...<BR /> <BR /> RAID uses horseys too... Xbench test results only show roughly a 2x benefit &amp; it was clear that archicad when rendering had some bottleneck in my demo to only use 20% capacity...? An external lappy RAID (2x) is also an option... <BR /> <BR /> Any anecdotal insights welcome! Thx!</T></DIV> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:21:59 GMT March_ Bruce 2008-11-17T19:21:59Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Core-envy-mac/m-p/119342#M14103 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>This has been partly discussed elsewhere however with the new core aware archicad 12 I'm just wondering about real word differences between a tricked out Macbook Pro (say 2.4Ghz 6/320-7200) or a Mac Pro 8 core (say 2.8Ghz 8/4xRAID @ 7200)<BR /> <BR /> I did a crippled demo at the Apple Store &amp; could only use about 20% of the horsepower running 4 archicads (only 1 would render) off an external FW400 drive (slow) nor being able to run VirtualBox - so it was tough to tell...<BR /> <BR /> RAID uses horseys too... Xbench test results only show roughly a 2x benefit &amp; it was clear that archicad when rendering had some bottleneck in my demo to only use 20% capacity...? An external lappy RAID (2x) is also an option... <BR /> <BR /> Any anecdotal insights welcome! Thx!</T></DIV> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:21:59 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Core-envy-mac/m-p/119342#M14103 March_ Bruce 2008-11-17T19:21:59Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Core-envy-mac/m-p/119343#M14104 i know someone using mac pro with 8 cores, i dunno the exact configuration in his machine<BR /> <BR /> but he told me that the 3d navigation is significantly faster than previous version. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:03:37 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Core-envy-mac/m-p/119343#M14104 Anonymous 2008-11-18T03:03:37Z