Hi, thinking of getting this souped-up Mac mini
Are you considering the base 24 GB of uni-RAM or more?

The minimum strongly recommended would be 48, out of the three choices.
24 will soon or later be too low given the fact that less will be available in-practice.


That's good to know. On ...

This is really handy, thanks Beppe


Hi, thinking of getting this souped-up Mac mini:

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I realise it's not been tested with Octane yet, but would anyone hazard a guess as to what the OctaneBench score might be?

Thanks

Hi,
in theory, it should be slightly faster than M2 Ultra, but ...

Hi, thinking of getting this souped-up Mac mini:
I realise it's not been tested with Octane yet, but would anyone hazard a guess as to what the OctaneBench score might be?

Thanks

Hi,
for 2023.1 versions, you need to have macOS 13.3 or higher.

We strongly recommend that you update macOS to version 13.3 or greater.
Prior to 13.3, there is an OS related issue that causes a render failure consistently if you render for long periods of time.

For 2024.1 versions, you need to ...

FYI After trial and error it seems 2022.1.2_R4 works in Monterey on M2

aoktar wrote:These versions require the Sonoma if I could remember correct it!

thanks for repying, as for Monterey, will any of the previous work?

2023.1.2-R2 etc..

hi, i am using C4D R25 on a MacBook Air M2, Monterey

I installed both 2023.1.2-R3 and 2024.1 Alpha2 - R3, but neither of them worked

Is my setup compatible? Thanks

ah so it's in Apple's hands. Ok thank you!

Ok, let's try to do a recap.

It was not possible to have a single OctaneX version supporting any type of Mac's GPU, so from some time, the OctaneX project has been divided in two:
OctaneX PR versions for AMD GPUs (Vega, Navi, Big Navi)
OctaneX 2022.1 or greater for Apple silicon M1/M2 native ...

When PR15 comes out for C4D, will it be here? https://render.otoy.com/account/downloa ... 15&ver=ALL