Unfortunately a lot of the hardware and so on I have and use (e.g. but does work and is stable as you would expect. It works OK,in Bootcamp Windows 10 - perfectly fine for modelling but struggles with rendering as the GPU doesn’t work in OpenGL so I have to use CPU. OK, so basically I have been playing around with Mac Rhino, and it crashes and doesn’t really work on my ageing Macbook Pro (2012 model) in OSX - it crashes and I can’t render at all (rendering/ray tracing mode just freezes the computer) Hope these tips help narrow your choices in a dazzlingly crowded hardware marketplace. The current crop of AMD cards are also working well, but their driver and feature support seem to lag behind Nvidia. The Nvidia Denoisers work well too, and can drastically speed up render times. (both the quadro and the geforce models) The key to shopping for one is Vram and CUDA cores. Nvidia RTX cards are working well with rhino currently. If you are going to do pro work, buy a pro machine. Machines with “lite” “air” in the name or have a very thin form factor will likely have intel hd graphics and should be avoided. Typically, machines that are built for 3d modeling or vfx will be referred to as a mobile workstation not a laptop… That may help get you to the right section of the websites you are shopping in. If you need a pc, buy a pc, running rhino on a mac with parallels will not work well at all. Also understand that there is currently NO windows solution that is supported for silicon macs at the moment. If you need windows on a mac, run bootcamp. It’s not supported, it does not work well, you will have problems, and we can’t help you fix them. Updated drivers are the most important thing to maintain performance if you are already running one. Machines that only have intel hd graphics should be avoided for professional modeling… they will work ok for a light travel box, or in an emergency, but they do not meet the min spec for rhino which is 4gb of vram. Your battery life unplugged will plummet but your models will run much better. We have tons of calls about poor graphics performance with these machines and the fix is to set your windows graphics to force rhino to the standalone card, effectively making it a NON hybrid machine when using rhino. These machine prioritize battery life over performance and try to use the Intel graphics as much as possible. Laptop Machines that are referred to as “hybrid” must have a stand alone card that you can force the machine to use instead of the built in intel. Mac users should be looking at a Silicon M1/M2/M3. More vram and more rendering cores (cuda cores) are better. Most importantly, Look for one with a standalone video card. If you are in the market for a new lap top to run rhino.
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