

My plan is to replace it with an M2 MacBook Pro, should those appear in June. I am passing it on to a friend, and I will get by with my work i7 for the next few weeks. You’ll be interested to know that my i9 machine is at UPS right now. I have a lot of Adobe applications, and I have Parallels on the i9 machine, so I do often use all of the cores for other applications. SketchUp is using one core, so whether you have 5 others to use elsewhere, or 7 others, may not matter. What you said about overclocking may be true too. The 8 cores in the i9 may be why it runs warmer than the 6 cores in the i7. So far the i7 seems to run at a lower temperature, my lap is not burning as much as with my i9 machine. But, I suspect that some of the antivirus software in the work machine affects that. Some things I do on the work machine are not as quick as my own machine.

My work MacBook Pro is a 16 inch 2019 i7, with 512 GB SSD, 16 GB, and still a decent GPU. It has 2 TB of SSD and 32 GB of RAM, as well as a better GPU. I looked into what it takes to set that up, and I was very glad that our IT were able to do that for me.Īre you trying to get real time rendering of SketchUp models? Or does the school dictate that it must be Enscape? Twinmotion is worth looking into, it can import SketchUp models and give real time rendering effects.Ībout the older i7 and newer i9 MacBook Pro, I’m a good person to ask about that! My own MacBook Pro is a 16 inch, late 2019 i9 machine. I will be happy if I’m wrong about this, but from what I can see Enscape doesn’t work with macOS, and they are recommending Bootcamp.
