How to run r studio on my mac laptop full#

It’s getting a bit outdated and unfortunately Blackmagic Design haven’t updated it yet. If you’re building a PC, or looking for a good (non Apple Silicon) laptop to run Resolve, then everything below still applies.įirst things first, you can download the latest DaVinci Resolve 17 configuration guide here. More on that to come in a separate article.Īs significant as the Apple Silicon Macs may turn out to be in the evolution of desktop computer architecture, many users will want more, and still value the ability to upgrade, change components, and tailor a build to exact requirements. The Apple Silicon Macs will require a different breakdown because they seem to make far more efficient use of system resources.

Please note that the minimum hardware specs you’re going to find in this article below, apply to DaVinci Resolve running on a PC, or an Intel Mac. Benchmarks show the M1 is not going to hold up against a high end PC running an AMD Ryzen 5950X with a Nvidia RTX 3080, but that shouldn’t come as a surprise, and in any case wouldn’t be a fair comparison.

How to run r studio on my mac laptop full#

Noise reduction is one of the exceptions, at least in a 4K timeline at full resolution, but still, that kind of performance from a $699 Mac is incredibly impressive. From what I’ve seen in early videos about the Apple M1 Macs, DaVinci Resolve runs happily enough on an M1 Mac Mini with only 8GB of unified memory and plays 4K media on a 4K timeline with most operations on the Resolve Color Page processed in real time.

However, I have to point out that the Apple Silicon Macs look like they will change a lot in terms of the minimum hardware requirements and cost of entry to professional post production for creators and filmmakers. I started this article in 2015, and for many systems, the general points you’ll find here are just as valid as they were years ago.