Well got my Built To Order today, been on it for a solid 6 hours, fantastic device.
Some shortcomings mostly with the dual CPU with Unreal Engine 4 (As expected), basically any project over 750mb takes an age to open up and under 10 FPS 94% of the time.
Tested for encoding some video, was ok for my basic needs, with VM running Windows 7 and Autodesk Revit 2015 for a medium sized building. Works well on 16GB, 10GB for VM, 6GB for Mac, dropped all the way down to 4GB for the VM and was still ok for the general work I was doing.
This machine
2.9/512/16
The lower Spec
2.7/256/8
Saving if dropped to the lower model
£312
Conclusions from my initial usage is while the 16GB RAM is great, I could probably manage with 8GB, additionally the 512GB is currently at 200GB with everything else on a Mac Mini Server, so 256GB would do. For the heavy lifting remove it from a laptop all together and get an iMac 5k.
Decision to be made within the next few days once I've really got into some Design, then photoshop work, followed by building animation.
Some shortcomings mostly with the dual CPU with Unreal Engine 4 (As expected), basically any project over 750mb takes an age to open up and under 10 FPS 94% of the time.
Tested for encoding some video, was ok for my basic needs, with VM running Windows 7 and Autodesk Revit 2015 for a medium sized building. Works well on 16GB, 10GB for VM, 6GB for Mac, dropped all the way down to 4GB for the VM and was still ok for the general work I was doing.
This machine
2.9/512/16
The lower Spec
2.7/256/8
Saving if dropped to the lower model
£312
Conclusions from my initial usage is while the 16GB RAM is great, I could probably manage with 8GB, additionally the 512GB is currently at 200GB with everything else on a Mac Mini Server, so 256GB would do. For the heavy lifting remove it from a laptop all together and get an iMac 5k.
Decision to be made within the next few days once I've really got into some Design, then photoshop work, followed by building animation.
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