Buying windows workstation or Mac M3 Max or M4?

[RICARDO OLVERA ARELLANO]

I want to ask your advice about choosing Windows computer workstation over waiting for Mac at this moment. I have three big jobs that require me to upscale my system, which is a Mac (M1 16 gbs and the latest intel IMac)
 

If I pick this Windows thinkpad with videographics card for workstation will it be OK or should I wait for the upcoming MacBook Pros with M4 pro or Max. 
 

The window system is top of the line with 16Gb A5000 NVIDIA graphics with 128 GB ram. 
 

Thank you! 

 

Link: https://www.lenovo.com/mx/es/configurator/cto/index.html?bundleId=21FBCTO1WWMX3

[Jeff Prince]

8 hours ago, RICARDO OLVERA ARELLANO said:

I have three big jobs that require me to upscale my system, which is a Mac

Why?  I remember you having a really well equipped iMac.  Why does the job require something new?  I’m still using my IMac and it is even able to render files that are crashing the latest M series computers.

[RICARDO OLVERA ARELLANO]

Well; I don’t know what happens with the processor it does not jump in performance. It stays between 5 to 10% of power usage. 
 

I have the core i7. 128 ram; and 5700xt 16 GB. 

And no more Apple care. 

What OS are you working with? 

[Jeff Prince]

1 minute ago, RICARDO OLVERA ARELLANO said:

What OS are you working with? 

Monterey

 

Vectorworks doesn’t use all the cores when rendering.  I don’t think you would see an impressive increase in performance if you got the latest Studio or MBP compared to what you are using now.  I certainly didn’t when I trialed a fully loaded Studio.

[RICARDO OLVERA ARELLANO]

Thank you Jeff, I will clean the system completely. Hoping that it would make a difference, because I do like my system, just want to make more from it. 

Your advice is very important for me and the community! Thank you!

 

 

[rDesign]

Even though the Vw2025 system requirements say that macOS 13 Ventura is the minimum macOS, I have installed Vw2025 on my 2016 core i7 MacBook Pro (which cannot install macOS 13) — and granted I have not used it much (less than 1 hour this week since release), but I haven’t had any issues with Vw2025 on macOS 12.7.6 so far.
 

In case that was one of the factors in your need for a new computer.

Edited September 15 by rDesign

[RICARDO OLVERA ARELLANO]

Thank you rDesign for sharing your experience! It gives me more confidence and clarity to not over react. 

Thank you! 😉 

[RICARDO OLVERA ARELLANO]

Update: I updated my SO to SONOMA 14.6.1 and downloaded VW2025 Design suite, it is like another machine, the performance is much fluid and the renderings are faster. 

Thank you guys for your support! 

 

Best 

 

Ricardo 

[zoomer]

4 hours ago, RICARDO OLVERA ARELLANO said:

Update: I updated my OS to SONOMA 14.6.1, it is like another machine,

 

OK .....

I am on Sequoia Public Bate nearly since day one.

And beside that I do not notice any problems with 3D/CAD Apps,

common things like hovering a word and right clicking in Safari or Mail to open

the Dictionary - feels like taking 3-5 seconds ....

 

And WTH,

while writing this and RMB "nachschlagen" what "Lexikon" may be spelled in english

(Dictionary), it worked in real time - for a moment - but only now and then ....

and is lagging again ....