Reply To: Blender 2.8 and MacOS – Purchase Question

I was a Mac user for 8 years, I switched to PC because Mac’s were not cutting it when it came to doing 3D. Mac’s comes with very low specs and you have to pay way too much money for too little capacity. I kept running into walls with Mac, limited support for cool software that aid you in 3D work,  they’re all on PC and you can barely find any on Mac.

So I had to buy a PC, at first I was very resistant of course, being used to the Mac environment, but not a month went by and I got very comfortable on Windows. Last time I had used Windows it was very different than now, but it has come a long way and today it is not the big difference it used to be. In the end it is not a big deal, it’s all browsing folders.

So at least for rendering and 3D work I say get a PC. Super high end specs for one quarter of the price, much more support for extra software. 

I have a PC at home and work on an iMac in the office. I have Blender 2.8 installed both on my PC and Mac at work. And Blender in my office Mac is soooo unstable, it crashes a lot, not to mention that the render that take 10 minutes in my $1,500 PC, in the $4,000 Mac it takes one and a half hours. 

I’m not trying to start a Mac vs PC war, Mac’s are great, I love the OS software and their slick design, I use them everyday, but it’s a fact that they are a disadvantage when it comes to doing 3D. I recommended to not be scared to use a PC, it is no big deal, see it as a work tool, one which you’ll be benefiting a lot from.