topic Re: Mac Studio unimpressive? in Installation & update

Mac Studio unimpressive?

heathldesign — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:42:55 GMT

Well, I got my Mac Studio and upgraded to V26 apple silicon and so far, meh. But I’m not convinced that there isn’t something wrong with my machine. I have several issues like spinning beach ball when saving a small file and when I pan in 2d the view moves slightly then pauses, then then pans. But the inertia affect doesn’t happen most of the time. And when I pinch to zoom, there is a pause as well. Anyone else experiencing this?

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

laembert — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:04:10 GMT

Are you running Archicad through rosetta or native apple silicon version?

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

heathldesign — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:11:32 GMT

native now.

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

heathldesign — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:27:54 GMT

I tried the model in a test user and had the same results. I guess the next step is to try another file.

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mthd — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 05:00:30 GMT

Cool ! It seems like quite a cost effective solution. I have been considering this option for low rise residential work that I occasionally do part time. Do you recommend it now or not ?

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

heathldesign — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:46:10 GMT

native on silicon

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

heathldesign — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:47:13 GMT

well, others say they see great performance improvements, but for me so far, meh.

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

mthd — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 01:00:13 GMT

You have 32GB RAM not 23 ? 24 cores or 32 GPU ?

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

heathldesign — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 20:21:32 GMT

oops, updated.

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

mthd — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 04:24:22 GMT

Have you seen this post ?

https://community.Graphisoft.com/t5/Setup-License-forum/Archicad-on-Mac-Studio/td-p/334424/page/4

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

heathldesign — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:49:50 GMT

I’ve been in touch with tech support and they are telling me that it’s normal to have the beach ball when saving. Really? I really doubt that. Anybody else see the BB when saving? I’m not talking about closing a file, I mean just saving while working.

i have a 2 year old Mac Studio which is supposed to be killer, way over the min. AC 27 system requirements. If saving a file causes a kernel panic then GS has a serious problem.

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

Barry Kelly — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:39:05 GMT

Where are you saving to?

The local hard drive, a network drive, a cloud sync folder (i.e. one drive or dropbox) or BIMcloud?

I have no experience with MACs, but local drive should be almost instant.

Other locations will take longer.

Barry.

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

heathldesign — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:43:02 GMT

Hi Barry,

its my local drive. I just received another email from tech support telling me this is normal. What a load of garbage. It’s a simple single storey house with nothing complicated. A few complex profile walls, but only AC library objects. I’ll check the polygon count tomorrow but I know it’s nothing. If this were really the case, I can’t imagine that large firms doing even medium size projects would sit happily by watching the beach ball while the bloody thing saved. 2-3 seconds on my wee house it would take minutes for a large file. I wish some else would chime in on their Mac experience .

Re: Mac Studio unimpressive?

Lingwisyer — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 06:38:48 GMT

My current 100mb 2 storey house takes like 3 seconds to save, though that is to a NAS, and I think my 500mb files take about the same time. Should probably upgrade to a SSD based NAS...