In fact, that is what many of our developers use as their daily driver as well. The 13' MacBook Pro is what I typically use at work, and I’ve never had a problem with it. You may want something with more 3D graphics ‘oomph’ for your work, though. I use SketchUp on a humble Mac Mini (2018) and am happy enough with it. They already do so for all their mobile devices. And of course, Apple are well down the road towards building their own CPU/GPU in the future. Apple doesn’t support NVIDIA graphics cards any more, preferring chips from AMD or Intel instead for their stock builds.

If you want to use SketchUp on macOS, you are making a solid decision going with with any of today’s production models. But this will be a long, phased process that gives everyone in their developer community (like us) ample time to resolve any incompatibilities. Microsoft did the same thing with DirectX several years ago. SketchUp is built using OpenGL, and in the future, Apple does plan to migrate to their chosen successor for that, Metal. But that would keep me from using C3d as my main app to set up my scenes (unless I went with a Hackintosh).There is a bit more nuance to this situation than you may have been led to believe by Apple’s marketing. I hate to go to a Windows box, but it is something on the table as an option for now. IF Redshift does get this done within the next few months, that would allow me to jump up to an iMac Pro most likely. He wants to ramp up the amount of animations we're doing and some video editing. But right now I'm on the fence about what to get. My boss also wants to get better hardware for me at work soon, so my renders will go faster. Mojave Mac Pro 5,1 Metal-Capable Graphics GPU Run OS 10.13.6 on my MacPro 5,1. At that point I could see letting go of the Nvidia card and getting an AMD card. So if that becomes a reality, it will be a huge deal for Mac people that want to render using the GPU. They didn’t want to give an exact date, but they guessed sometime in the first quarter of 2020 is when it will be released. Redshift has said they are porting over their software to also work on AMD GPU's (which would include Metal capable cards) and in their forums they said they are pretty close to having it finished. But that would mean no Octane and no Redshift. So it's either I stick with the GTX 1080 or sell it and go AMD. I thought about swapping the card out for an RX580. It is annoying that Apple dropped support for these, but I guess that's just Apple being Apple.

I wanted to use it for CUDA rendering (Redshift, Octane). I bought the Nvidia card back when it was still supported by Web Drivers with no clue that Apple would drop support for it in future OS's.

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