topic Re: Fusion 360 on the "new" MacBook in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Fusion 360 on the "new" MacBook

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:31:26 GMT

Looking to the community here to gauge how well you all think Fusion 360 will run on the newly announced MacBook? Maybe rate it on a scale of 1/10 with what features would suffer on such a lightweight machine...

Here is a link to the tech specs:

new MacBook specs

Thanks for the help!

Re: Fusion 360 on the "new" MacBook

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:21:17 GMT

bump for advice

Re: Fusion 360 on the "new" MacBook

kellings — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:25:52 GMT

A 4 maybe? It doesn't have a very fast processor. Pretty slow clock speed. Also it has Intel integrated graphics. So I think it could run it, I just don't think it would run it that great. I guess it would also depend on how large your assemblies were.

Re: Fusion 360 on the "new" MacBook

AlexPetak_Autodesk — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:38:59 GMT

The new Broadwell Core M CPU's are quite capable.

The performance in "new" MacBooks will be probably very similar as described in this review:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-M-5Y70-Broadwell-Review.130930.0.html

The new Intel integrated graphics is also better than Haswell generation (which was just fine).

Performance in Fusion for You will depend on the complexity of Your models.

If now You are able to work with models on a notebook with i5 or i3 CPU with integrated graphics, You will be in similar situation on the new Broadwell notebooks with integrated graphics like new MacBook.

Core M could run on reasonable high turbo frequency with very good performance, it just cannot do that for a very long period of time due to thermal design.

It will tend to lower the speed and after a minute or so of intesive workload.