![]() Lastly, I suggest searching YouTube for inspection videos of the model machine you are interested in. I advise you to upgrade to Windows Pro as it will give you better update control as well as other professional features and it is only 70 bucks extra. The Alienware will allow an upgrade (or come with Win Pro depending upon model,) but in my case I’ll have to handle the upgrade to Windows Pro myself via Microsoft’s upgrade portal. The finalists were an Alienware and an MSI notebook, and when the MSI Leopard 8RE went on sale at Walmart website for 200 dollars off, that decided me, as it basically paid the sales tax and an upgrade to Windows Pro. What I saw was that all the Dells were just not quite up to par (for SketchUp) in the 1000-1600 price range, and the Alienware machines were but were a bit over priced compared to other “gaming machines”. Recently I looked at both Alienware and Dell notebooks and they are quite different from one another. I did consider switching to Windows but the Hackintosh route gave me what I wanted.įor rendering, ironically, I’ve started using Vray cloud for main renders, and only use small interactive renders locally for look development and texturing so the GPU element is a little de-emphasised. Obviously, there are compromises in terms of updates and ongoing system updates but I’m a one man operation who is technically minded and is happy to tinker. I can definitely understand the budget implications, Apple just don’t make a machine (currently, that may change with the modular MacPro in the works) that gives me a GPU that I need, even if I didn’t need an Nvidia GPU, to get a machine with lots of cores, I would have to spend ALOT of money, (which I don’t have) I ended up building a Hackintosh for just under £2.5k that gives me roughly the CPU performance of a machine that costs over 6 thousand quid. I ended up building a Hackintosh with an Nvidia GPU as my main design machine (for rendering and photogrammetry processing), I’m a ‘dyed in the wool’ MacOS user, apart from renderers, I haven’t seen these software limitations. ![]() ![]() I still use it for presentations and a portable design machine when I need it, they are robust, amazing little machines. I only stopped using my 2013 MBP as my main work machine last xmas. Not that it will change your mind but Indigo Render can use either OpenCL or CUDA for GPU rendering so you would be able to use your AMD card for GPU rendering from the Sketchup plugin.
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