The setting under Battery>Battery>Energy Mode is set to automatic, which 'will automatically choose the best level of performance and energy usage.' Similarly, the Zephyrus m16 has settings to change in Windows 11 settings and Asus' Armoury Crate. For example, the MacBook I used for testing under the settings Battery>Power Adapter> Energy Mode is already set to High Power. Most systems out of the box have higher performance configurations when running on AC. Sorry for rambling, maybe this will be helpful to someone.For the testing of both systems, I ran the benchmarks on AC (plugged in its stock charger) rather than DC to give both systems the chance to perform at their best. The M1 chip is still pretty new, and maybe Vectric will wake up someday and provide a native Mac version. I suspect all of this will get worked out in time. For Fusion, I’d have to narrow it down to the M1 chip or the Mac version of Fusion having some memory management bugs. For VCarve, I don’t know if it’s rooted in Parallels, or in the Windows virtual machine, or in the newness of the M1 chip. These things smell like memory management problems. Closing Fusion and restarting it sometimes fixes these issues, temporarily.

Artifacts from the Fusion window left behind on the desktop, etc.

For example, when dragging something, the view may lag the dragging action, or never even catch up.įusion 360 exhibits similar quirks on the MacBook which I didn’t see previously on the Windows computer. Additionally, in 2D view, it sometimes loses its ability to snap to points, or loses its ability to display accurately. The biggest thing I’ve noticed is that the rendering of the paths in 3D view is slow and choppy. VCarve has to run on the Parallels/Windows virtual machine. CAD) apps are not originally or natively designed for it therefore the experience is not always superior. Third: although the Mac is a clearly (to me) superior platform, many technical (e.g. Second: For VCarve and Fusion 360, everything works “OK”, not spectacularly. I installed Parallels (ver 17 I think, whatever the latest was in June), and then installed Windows 11 on that virtual machine.įirst: the MacBook is generally incredible, really should have upgraded years ago. Now, I’m running VCarve Pro and Fusion 360 on a MacBook Pro 14” with M1Pro processor and 32Gb RAM.

I’ve been using Windows computers for decades and in the last several years have been using Vectric VCarve and Fusion 360.

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