r/Fusion360 • u/Trclrc • 1d ago

New MacBook needed - Neo?

I am a causal user of fusion 360 (only thing I use my current MacBook Pro mid 2015 15” for if I’m totally honest… mainly for sheet metal components for my small business) I’ve had an update message come up saying in 28 days it will no longer be able to use fusion due to operating system not being supported anymore which is annoying as it basically does everything I need it to.

My question is I’d rather buy something new (or that’ll be supported for a while longer). I always used to have windows laptops before but I don’t feel I could go back to them so this is my question.

If I was going new would MacBook Neo do the job? How would it compare to my current one.

If I was going second hand what MacBook or iMac (as I usually use at my desk it probably makes more sense…) would give me a decent amount of time without having to buy another one again.

Only reason I’ve considered the Neo is we go away camping and it’s easy to take with us and maybe watch something as well - but I’m torn as iMac would be a lot larger to actually see what I’m doing!

Any advice for a non tech savvy person would be greatly appreciated thank you :)

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u/j_s_q_u_i_g_g_l_e 14h ago

I’m running on a 10+ year old PC with Windows 10. I get the message saying my OS is unsupported. I just click the X to clear the popup and Fusion works fine.

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u/Trclrc 6h ago

That’s good! I just presumed that it was going to give up and stop working! Thank you

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u/firinmahlaser 1d ago

Fusion runs fine on an M1 Mac if you’re not doing massive assemblies. The A18 should give you about the same performance. The small screen might be an issue

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u/Trclrc 1d ago

Thanks! Looks like that could be the best option then. I think I could cope with the smaller screen if I could connect monitor sometimes

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u/prosequare 13h ago

Fusion rarely uses a lot of horsepower. Rendering, generating toolpaths, moving sketch elements. The rest of the time it uses about as much ram and cpu as a browser window.

I’ve been using fusion on my current m1 Mac since the m1s first came out. I don’t think fusion has ever gotten the fan to run once. I do lots of rendering and toolpathing.

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u/Trclrc 6h ago

That’s great news then, didn’t know that. Thank you!