9/30/2020 0 Comments Best Mac For Unity 5
Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Log in sign up User account menu 14 Laptop recommendation for Unity Pro developing and 3ds max.I was thinking a macbook pro perhaps and dual boot to Windows, because I kind of feel like buying any PC hardware is throwing money in the toilet over the long term because mac hardware has such great resale value.Theres the counterargument that I can get so much more bang for my buck going straight up PC.
![]() ![]() Do any of you develop on laptops 22 comments share save hide report 86 Upvoted This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Sort by best level 1 4 points 5 years ago For mobile games pretty much any decent recent laptop should suffice. Not only you will get considerably better bang for your buck but you will be able to easily upgrade parts in the future. Like uBreggs said, if you have the budget there are some kick ass laptops out there if you are into that. Before I used to have the most powerful macbook pro, but it was a limited setup. Not good enough for gaming, but not as portable as an Air for example. Lets not forget laptops have really high failure rates, specially if you abuse them with gaming, travel, etc. Now I work 90 on a desktop, with a good desktop GPU so I can game properly, and have a 13 retina macbook pro for when I need mobility which is not that often. The CPU is easily fast enough for Unity editor work (Im not pushing the shaders, no idea what Unity5s PBR will do to it) but without a decent GPU youll definitely feel it struggle with Max. Continue this thread level 1 3 points 5 years ago If possible, reconsider. I did something similar half a decade ago and it was kind of a mistake. Instead of buying a 2,000 laptop (for examples sake), youre way better off building a 1,200 machine and getting an 800 laptop. A tower you build can be upgraded incrementally and runs way cooler than any laptop. Best For Unity 5 Software Youre UsingIf the modeling software youre using is Windows only, I highly recommend just staying on Windows and bypassing Linux or Mac. If you have a Windows laptop and PC as described above, you can just maintain your code on Git or another source control and use your laptop to pull when you need to work remotely. Also - having a sub-top-of-the-line laptop has its benefits, as you can easily see how an average machine will perform with your game. You can really max out stuff on your dev machine, and then test it locally on your laptop for benchmarks. Super sweet Lastly, Mac resale value isnt all its cracked up to be. If youre out of warranty, you might sell it for half of its original cost, which still puts you out of more money than blowing up an 800 laptop.The only real reason to get a Mac would be if youre planning on doing iOS deployment. And I would only plan on that if you have a successful mobile game that has already made a following on Android (since its free), and you can predict of proper return on investment that is greater than the price of a Mac. To summarize: Ive been using Unity3D since v2.0, and have used it in all sorts of environments and teams on all sorts of machines.
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