Hi,

I want to get into houdini. Right now I am using a Macbook late 2012 with 13.3 inch display which I want to repalce with a current model.
I am doing 3d apps as my hobby. Right now I mainly work with modo but want to get into vfx effects. I allready did some stuff with realflow.
I have seen in the official specs form sidefx, that intel graphics are not supported with houdini on macs but I have also found a few form posts reporting to get houdini up and running even with Intel Graphics on mac. Unfortunatly apple has no real gpu in their 13“ mabook pro lineup.

I have a windows system at home which fits to the requirements where I can run houdini fine.
But I am often away from home and want to play a little bit in houdin. It is the best way for me to learn things, when I am doing the stuff after reading or watching tutorials. And when I am away I only have my laptop with me.

Do anybody have experience with current apple macbook 13” models and houdini?

If you're going to be buying a new MB, I would highly recommend that you consider the 15" model which has a built in GPU. I think you'll be much happier with the experience and you'll find Houdini that much more stable.

Having said that, you might want to hold off purchasing anything too soon as it's rumored that new models will be announced in June.

Midphase
Having said that, you might want to hold off purchasing anything too soon as it's rumored that new models will be announced in June.

Thank you fur this hint.

I have found a windows laptop which fits perfect. Lenovo t480s with a good 14“ display, 2 gb dedicatet nvidia gpu and a core i7 cpu for arround 1600.- Euros. For a macbook, 15” with related specs I have to pay much much more money (3000.- Euros). I am waiting for the new specs of the 13" notebooks but I think after 15 years using macs I tend to return to the windows world. Sadly Apple stalls with innovation and quality (keyboards of current notebooks).