Mac System requirements

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Hello, I am very new to Finale and just doing this as a hobby. trying to get this working on my macbook air.

 

I have it running via parallels. It runs but is a bit choppy on default settings. I can change the render settings to get it to be fairly smooth but I give up a lot of resolution in doing so.

 

Just curious if anyone has any luck running Finale 3D on mac laptops? If so, what hardware stats do you have?

 

May look at upgrading sooner than later.  An air would be ideal but interested to hear about pros as well.

 

Thanks, Jamie

[Dirk Enders – PyroOffice]

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Hi Jamie,

 

i think it depends on which macbook air you are running – an M1, M2, M3 or even an older Intel besed one ?
I peronally run Finale on an M1 Pro with 16GB of RAM . The speed is good enought to script small to mid size shows (like Pyrojam) without a lot of 3d Models.

For me this is enough because most of the time i do support issues with addressing and racks so i am fine with this excellent computer ! Because i also do some Finale videos this is he richt laptop for me because you never heard the fans 😉
But i will switch to a M4 Pro as soon as it is available to be prepared for the future.

A lot of my customers ask me if a mac is a good choice for finale. It is hard to give. a general answer here because it really depends on the shows you are scripting.

 

I thougt we should share a kind of demo show and users should answer how much time their pc or laptop need to render this show. So we got a first impression about the finale speed of a computer .

Dirk

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Thanks for the answer, I am currently on a M1 air with 16gb of ram. at this stage I am doing pretty basic designs and definitely nothing larger than pyrojam.

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