RedLightGraphicDesign Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 So I'm finally making the switch from a windows laptop to a MacBook, and I wanna make sure that I get something that's both in my price range, and also runs affinity well. But that being said, there's a lot out there. If you use affinity on a MacBook, what have your experiences been? What year/model are your MacBooks? Are there any MacBooks I should stay away from? Affinity is by far the biggest consuming product I will use on the laptop, so that's why I'm here first. I've been told MacBook pros are the way to go, but I don't know much more than that, and my only mac experience has been an iPad pro and my 2016 imac all in one dinosaur, which barely runs affinity at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Affinity 2 runs well even on my "obsolete" MacBook Pro mid-2012 with MacOS Catalina, upgraded with a fast SSD. Only using lots of live filters in Photo can become a CPU/GPU bottleneck for sure. It flies on my MacBook Air M2 15". And now that MBA M3 has been released just this week, I wouldn't worry about the CPU at all. It's top of the game. What you need to do is order as much RAM as you can afford because you can't upgrade it. Neither the SSD. Don't go under 16GB RAM or 512GB SSD. My MBA is thus "full blown", with 24GB RAM and 2TB SSD. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Hi @RedLightGraphicDesign, welcome to the Affinity forums! It may be useful if you can specify the planned use of Affinity apps (e.g. focus on text / vector / pixel) and and whether you ask for current models only or possibly previous ones from Apple's refurbished store for instance (it can make sense for costs + for compatibility reasons). Questions for hardware recommendations occurs here or there in the forum., for instance: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/113073-macbook-air-2020-good-for-affinity/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/151146-m1-pro/#comment-846691 https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/160830-moving-from-pc-to-mac/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/188652-macbook-pro-with-radeon-pro-555x-good-enough-for-smooth-and-low-latency-drawing-using-simple-brushes/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/184428-mac-mini-m2-non-pro-or-macbook-pro-m2/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/195930-hardware-macbook-pro-limitation-for-using-affinity-suite-above-5-years-what-is-the-most-important-spec-here/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/196100-macbook-pro-m2-max-or-m3-pro-for-affinity-photo-2/ Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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