I am not by any means a tech-saavy user, but here is what I’m running: All actions on this laptop, like restarting Windows through Parallels, have been blazing fast.

I have a few more days left to return this new laptop, but have really been hoping I can find a solution to running Revit on it. I'll write a follow up post if I succeed.I have had some success with this today (after installing all latest updates to Big Sur OS, Windows 10, Parallels Desktop, and Revit LT 2021). With the holiday break around the corner, I hope to spend some more time with it and try upgrading some other images I had in my old laptop. And after a quick update to our own Kinship app, everything was running smoothly. Parallels and the recently released Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview made the whole experience a no brainer. The installation couldn't have been easier. I'm very pleased to report that yes, Revit not only runs on the new M1 MacBook Pro, it screams! As does everything else you throw at this laptop.īelow is a series of images showing the setup process with Revit running and Kinship working. But again, thanks to some very persistent users ( see this video from back in April and this other one from July) the situation started to look more promising. The early comments were that it wasn't working. Then there was the question of whether Revit itself would be able to run on the ARM version of Windows. But Microsoft had an ARM version of Windows, and people managed to get it working. With Apple's switch from Intel to ARM-based M1 chips, it wasn't clear if Windows would still be able to run on Macs in a virtual environment (like Parallels). Now that it has, I've gone all in - 14' M1 MaxPro with 32GB and 2TB SSD. I held back for about a year, because I knew a 14' MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon would be coming out. Recently, however, the computer finally started to struggle, as the software on it is more demanding than ever. Throughout its long life, I've been a happy user, with Revit and everything else running just fine over the past nine years.

Since then, the only change I've made was to replace its hard drive with a bigger, faster 1TB SSD. The machine was maxed out back when I originally purchased it, which at the time meant a whopping 8GB of memory. I've been using the same MacBook Pro 13' Retina since the end of 2012, the very first day they came out. Revit works like a charm on the new 14' M1 MacBook Pro.

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