topic Re: Running Inventor on my Macbook Pro in Installation & Licensing Forum

Running Inventor on my Macbook Pro

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:21:05 GMT

Hello everyone. I was wondering if Inventor could successfully be used on my Macbook Pro. It has the following specs:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

Processor - 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz)

Memory - 16GB

Graphics - Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

What I'm concerned about is the processor. I have checked the system requirements provided by autodesk, and my Macbook seems to be good except for the processor. Autodesk suggests a minimum processor of 3.0 GHz, but have not been able to find out if this takes Turbo Boost into account (as I have not been able to find a Macbook in general that reaches 3.0 GHz without Turbo Boost).

Thank you in advance!

Re: Running Inventor on my Macbook Pro

Mark.Lancaster — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00:33 GMT

Inventor version? What type models are you creating? Ate you a student? What will you being using Inventor for? Remember you need bootcamp or parallels installed to run Inventor on a MAC os. Most likely your machine will run Inventor but it could be slow in certain conditions

Re: Running Inventor on my Macbook Pro

pendean — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:24:33 GMT

If you have no choice, does it really matter what Autodesk says? You seem to meet the minimum, so it will run slow as you already know.

Or go purchase better hardware (and way more RAM): you know that is the true fix already.

Here is how you run a Windows program on a MAC since you also know INVENTOR is not native to MacOS https://www.howtogeek.com/187359/5-ways-to-run-windows-software-on-a-mac/