Rhino Mac Os X

If you’re looking for an NVidia option in a laptop format you’re very limited with Apple laptops as it’s only the highest spec 15' MacBook Pro that offers an Nvidia option and they’re more than double the price of the base model (unfortunately there is no way to upgrade Apple laptop GPU units as they are hardwired into the control board). However I will say that with Apple laptops if you can afford to buy the premium options the laptop will last you far longer. I recently passed on a 15' Macbook Pro from 2006 to a family member (2.6 Ghz dual core with 4gb memory) and they use the Rhino beta without any problems. You pay an awful lot for the final 25% of performance but you also pay for protection against early obsolescence. You can of course go for one of the the non Nvidia models. I own the latest MacBook Air (Intel powered GPU) and that runs Rhino perfectly.

Mar 9, 2017 - We're excited to announce the KeyShot for Rhino plugin on Mac OS X is now available. The free plugin may be downloaded on the KeyShot. Rhino 5 for Mac & Windows. Rhino 5 for Mac & Rhino 5 for Windows are not the same. Check out the differences. Rhino At The Core. The Industry Standard NURBS engine comes to macOS. Right At Home. A native application that feels familiar to both Apple users &.

I wouldn’t use the Air for rendering tasks (beyond preview renders) but that isn’t the point of the Air. Your have three other options here that spring to mind: 1.) Search out the latest “hackintosh compatible laptop” options that are available to you. Be careful here though as you really need to know what you’re doing. 2. Lord of vermillion arena. ) Buy second hand hardware from a few years ago that meets your specification for Nvidia hardware 3.) Buy a reconditioned unit direct from Apple that has the Nvidia option. This would be my recommended option as it will save you a good deal plus you get all your standard warranty/support options of buying direct from Apple. Hope this helps. I’ve never attempted to ‘Hackintosh’ a laptop and everything I’ve read has put me off.

A particular laptop model might work for a certain OS X revision flavour but as soon as Apple changes the drivers as it updates the OS you can run into problems. If I were on a limited budget I’d be looking at the 13' Macbook Air’s (new, reconditioned or second hand if it’s one from the last 12 months or so) as they have more than enough grunt to handle Rhino but will obviously be pretty slow for heavy duty rendering purposes (I also think they’re reasonable value for money). Any laptop than can handle heavy duty rendering purposes like the Windows variants made by Boxx are going to cost far more than a standard laptop so the Windows vs OS X agument is fairly redundent. Just look at the cost of this base model made by Boxx: On the base consumer end, Apple hardware is definitely more costly than it’s Windows cousin but as soon as you get into pro configurations in many cases Apple hardware is actually more cost effective. I’m not going to get into an operating system debate here though as it seems redundent on an OS X forum. Back to Hackintoshes, the desktop variants work really well and we run a number of them to add GPU rendering firepower to our network rendering solution at the studio.