Apple MBP M2 MAX sucks.

[Jimmy]

my 2cents, hopefully this might save others time and money.

just bought a new mbp m2 max, it sucks, im returning it. 

It doens't come close to my alienware x17r2 (i7 with rtx 3080 ti)

3d modeling is just terrible, where I spend a lot of time.
I didn't buy this machine for rendering. 

[Karl Ottenstein]

FWIW, My MacBook Pro M2 Max is a totally awesome machine... double the performance of my previous (dead) iMac Pro which was ridiculously powerful.  All functions are fast, fluid and I have yet to hear the fan go on.

@Jimmy I have to wonder if you had installed the Intel version of AC 26 by mistake, vs the Apple Siliicone/ARM version...along with all updates?  It should be vastly superior to the Alienware that you describe.

[Jimmy]

Hey Karl, 
no it was arm version. I was really hopeful it would work as I love the mbp portability. 

[Lee Hankins]

That is odd. All of our M series Mac’s way outperform our Intel based machines. We’re slowly upgrading everything. Most are just MacMini’s and they perform brilliantly. 

[Lee Hankins]

Just to check, you haven’t got any of the power saving features turned on have you when running on battery?

[Jimmy]

No, running full tilt.

Lee, are you comparing your apple systems to Intel Mac's, or windows systems ?

[Lee Hankins]

We’re fully Mac based. I’ve even got Archicad 26 running through Windows 11 through Parallels on my M1 Max MacBook Pro and it zooms. 

[Unabend]

I have the same problems as Jimmy. By now I'm desperate, even working on small files weighing less than 100Mb the performance of Archicad on a Macbook Pro M2Max with 64Gb of ram is ... simply sucks.

I'm ruined, I spent 5000€ on a very expensive toy.

See my previous post few days ago:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Archicad-Macbook-M2Max-HUGE-performance-prob...

[Eduardo Rolon]

Wasn't the problem in that post related to imported DWGs and wasn't it fixed?

[Unabend]

Hi Eduardo!

No, new file new project...

A simple little sloped terrain (mesh), some slabs on it, and few solid operations or change of materials... that Archicad execute in 20/30 seconds or more 😰

Why i've bought Mac?