topic Re: Wich Laptop in Revit Architecture Forum

Laptop specification to run complex Revit models

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:25:00 GMT

Hey all,

I had a question. I'm looking now for 2 months after a laptop that supports revit copmlex buildings.

I contacted several companies without a result... So i hope i can find some awnsers here:

I Fount these laptops but i dont know if they will perforn good in any way:

- MSI Creator 17 inch

- RTX 2080 Super Max-Q (8GB)

- I7-10875H

32GB DDR4 2666MHz Ram

- 2TB Storage

Apple Macbook Pro 16:

- I9

- 32GB 2666-MHz DDR4 Ram

- AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB

- 512 GB SSD with external hard drive

Will this perform well or do you use something else or recommend something else?

Thanks in advance

Greetz

Re: Wich Laptop

L.Maas — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:37:11 GMT

Check out the Revit Hardware Specs. It gives advice for minimum to performance systems.

I would not worry too much about the graphics and focus more on memory and processor.

As a rule of thumb "project size loaded * 20 = RAM needed" for Revit only (not including other running software)

I personally would not use a macbook. Revit is only for Windows, meaning you would need to use virtualisation on a Mac.

Other focus points might depend on other software yo are going to use

Re: Wich Laptop

martijn_pater — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 18:11:03 GMT

If you're going with the macbook you want to get parallels aswell. Running from bootcamp gives you/could give you some driver issues, whereas parallels uses mac basically. For instance your mouse/mousepad/keyboard might not function properly, from experience...

Re: Wich Laptop

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:16:31 GMT

I can safely recommend you that device "MSI Creator 17 inch" according to a friend who's using it for professional renders and has only one problem which is not technical the fan sound is somehow high, everything is good for revit.

Re: Laptop specification to run complex Revit models

lim.wendy — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:28:15 GMT

@Anonymous,

Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting. I've modified your title to give other users a quick insight into the question/issue you are having.

Re: Laptop specification to run complex Revit models

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:34:32 GMT

Thanks for the awnsers, im looking for the msi but now i have to options.

MSI Option 1:

https://www.tones.be/nl/article/131827?fbclid=IwAR3J4T3ueqDe2CD1KCFNQvRlI6gUigRAsZhX_Y2sNXa-664TTIJitHeQJnM

Msi Option2:

https://www.tones.be/nl/article/131822?fbclid=IwAR2QIddRzLQ27oYHZ3w3F0590_e1khc-b1-Uwg01vPeUkhEsQcXKTbknIsg

The option 2 is cheaper but had i9, so i dont know wich one is the best cause the i9 is cheaper.

Thanks in advance greets

Re: Laptop specification to run complex Revit models

ennujozlagam — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:44:45 GMT

you can also try HERE. thanks