
The new Apple MacBook Air (M2, 2022) is a brilliant alternative to the more expensive MacBook Pro models, and despite its cheaper price, it still offers excellent performance when running CAD software. See our MacBook Pro 14-inch review for more details. But if you’re looking for a premium Apple laptop and are willing to pay the price, you won’t find better. This laptop is very much the Rolls Royce option of MacBooks, and may be overkill for a lot of people’s needs. You’ll also benefit from the most beautiful, super-high res screen, and up to a whopping 8TB of storage. You’ll doubtless get less than that doing intense work in AutoCAD, but it’s a surety that you’ll get through a professional day without having to recharge. The MacBook Pro also offers up to 17 hours of battery life: the longest of any Mac ever. Note also that you can run iOS here as well, so you can open up the AutoCAD mobile app if that helps your workflow. In our review, we found that it was more than capable of running both AutoCAD and resource-hungry 3D modelling software like Maya, 3DS Max, and Fusion 360 with ease. Running macOS Big Sur on Apple’s proprietary eight-core M1 Pro or Max chip, with up to 64GB RAM, this is the most powerful laptop Apple has ever created. I'd recommend using the default settings, and if for some reason that's not enough, you can tinker with it later.The MacBook Pro 14-inch (2021) is a brilliant laptop for CAD, and easily the best one you can buy right now. Apple's unified memory and M1 chipset are so good that with the default 4GB of RAM, Windows 10 ran fine on my Mac. It's all a very straightforward process, right? While I browsed the different settings for VM resources, I didn't adjust any myself. In any case, you're good to go with Windows 10 on your Apple M1 Mac. Now, Windows on ARM actually pulls down the 圆4 app (no, they're not ARM64, as that would make too much sense) and it runs in emulation. These apps were quite literally made for Windows phones.īut Apple Silicon doesn't support 32-bit ARM apps, simply because there haven't been 32-bit ARM apps in the Apple ecosystem in ages. This isn't even about legacy support, as there's never been a 32-bit Windows on ARM PC. That's because this 64-bit ARM version of Windows 10 ships with 32-bit ARM versions of its built-in apps. Up until fairly recently, these apps just didn't work. One thing to take note of is that pretty much every Windows 10 built-in app is going to tell you that it's updating before you can open it.
