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13 inch Non-Retina MacBookPro: worth for ArchiCAD?

dhaval7shah — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 06:54:13 GMT

Hi,

We just want to confirm the performance (before buying) of
13" Non-Retina MacBooKPro, 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, with 8GB RAM and SSHD (Fusion drive) for ArchiCAD 17 to 19.

If anybody has Experience with it PLEASE SHARE. Thanks.

Re: 13 inch Non-Retina MacBookPro: worth for ArchiCAD?

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 10:56:18 GMT

Dhaval,
The 13inch MacBook Pro is not suitable to run ARCHICAD effectively, you need the 15 inch model with dedicated graphics card and 16Gb RAM
Scott

Re: 13 inch Non-Retina MacBookPro: worth for ArchiCAD?

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:39:23 GMT

sboydturner wrote:
Dhaval,
The 13inch MacBook Pro is not suitable to run ARCHICAD effectively, you need the 15 inch model with dedicated graphics card and 16Gb RAM
Scott

I second that.

About a week ago I actually saw ARCHICAD 19 running on a current 13" MacBook Pro and OpenGL performance (3D Window) is very slow in comparison with 15" MacBook Pro with a dedicated video card.

ARCHICAD 19 was usable on 13" MacBook Pro, but in no way smooth or fast.