Archicad 28 should be Apple Silicon Only!

[archislave]

I hope Graphisoft will release Archicad 28 for Apple Silicon ONLY. This is so they will focus on one platform with having fewer problems on the initial release. 

At this point no company should be running an Intel Mac. It is really worth the upgrade for everything else besides Archicad which seems to be having more issues after four years of the M Macs.

So get your act together Graphisoft!

[Jim Allen]

"no company should be running an Intel Mac"

What - are you serious?

Macs famously last for years and function pretty much as well at the end of their life as they did when new.

Corporate IT people who purchase or pay for IT equipment often have preconceptions and many are anti-Apple. Typically they aren't people that appreciate the benefits in a work environment. They often won't countenance Macs in a PC environment. It's like the old saying "No-one ever got fired for buying IBM".

If you are lucky enough to have one, replacing it is not necessarily straightforward.

My last 2 Macs were very expensive, far more expensive than equivalent PCs and justified on the basis of longevity.

My iMac Pro is 6 years old and due for replacement. The Mac Pro which preceded it lasted 7 years. 

Many small practitioners keep their Macs as long as they can - and you would propose to deny them the latest Archicad version.

Maybe leave these decisions to Graphisoft, who know more about their market than either of us.

[Jp1138]

Maybe they should focus on the main platform, Windows, and leave Mac altogether. Windows would have less issues and Mac even less 😛

It´s a joke, of course, don´t hit me.

I´m not a mac user, but I don´t think they should leave so many people unatended. I suppose they have their use statictics and will stop supporting intel macs when it makes sense to them economically, no need to push them in that direction 😆

[guinzo]

And Graphisoft also need to leave only one language — Chinese — because it is spoken by the most people. It will reduce problems with wrong translation. lol

I think Intel should be supported as long as Apple supports it. My previous macbook pro worked for 9 years, and before I replacing it with the M3, it worked very good.

[archislave]

IT is now even more necessary for them to only develop for Apple Silicon on the macOS side. The M3 onward now has hardware ray tracing. Plus there will be Ai NPU features that Archicad will get since the new Snapdragon X PC's will offer this as well. Besides they are also Armed based. I would think somehow the Arm code could easily be transferred between MacOS ARM and Windows ARM. That leaves four year old at the youngest Intel Macs no future.

[Gerald Hoffman]

Hi archislave,

Not sure why you would post this as it looks like you are running ArchCad 16.0 US on an iMac by your signature.

I have the last intel MacBook Pro produced and my policy is always to get the top configuration other than storage capacity as I can usually make them last 4-5 years with ArchiCad before having to buy a new one. My logic is that this provides the best working experience with the software for as long as possible. Things definitely start slowing down towards the end of the cycle but as a single practitioner there is always a cost benefit analysis. I am for sure looking forward to the next computer but as I hear the M4 MacBook Pros might be released in the 4th quarter of 2024 I am trying to hang in there.

There are lots of users who have budget constraints for hardware given our software is getting more and more expensive as well so I for one would like the support on intel Macs for another year or two.

Cheers,

[archislave]

Sorry Gerald, I forgot to update my profile. I was just hanging on for years due to legacy projects. I finally got an M2 Mac. I am sure the M4 will be ideal!

[Bricklyne Clarence]

Not to step all over your witticism, but "Chinese" is not a language.

It's not spoken by anyone let alone,....... "the most people".

It's a nationality.

The languages you were looking for are either "Mandarin" or "Cantonese" (.....probably the former on account of it being the primary language in mainland China).

As you were.

[Jim Allen]

Not wanting to sound picky but although over 70% of Chinese people speak 'Standard Mandarin', China has hundreds of languages, and seven basic language groups which are mutually unintelligible.

Completely irrelevant but if you are going to refer to Cantonese there are other sinitic languages spoken by almost as many people: https://studycli.org/learn-chinese/languages-in-china/

I suspect some others will find it as fascinating as I do!

[Barry Kelly]

That is enough off topic.

I should probably just remove both of those posts, but in the spirit of good humour, I will leave them.

Other moderators may decide to remove them.

If you have more to say on the subject please do so in private messages.

Any more posts and they will all be removed.

I can see this starting to get a little personal.

Barry.