Hi,
I've been a long time Mac user. I'm still using 2nd gen iMac specially for sketchup modelling full time.
No problem in modelling. For rendering I'm use Thea, V-ray Next all work 100 percent.

Time has been moving fast ,with the new real time rendering applications around. My iMac can't handle those
high computing applications.
You should thing about this and if you are going into realtime in the future i.e
new v-ray realtime, Twinmotion to Unreal Engine or D5 etc.

For me I bought a Window laptop GPU of course just for Realtime rendering proposes.
and do my 3d modelling-small scene rendering projects in iMac 27" .

Anyway I hope that helps in your decision.Cheers

This is good! Thank you

Have you try universal importer plugin?

Nice illustration and style! Good alternative.
Sorry to hear, things will be better soon.

Nice thing with Twinmotion is you can do all your modeling in sketchup then to Twinmotion.
The most exciting thing is you can combine other 3D Format assets FBX , OBJ,RHINO etc within your scene.
No more converting meshes!!!! Buy ready textured assets from 3rd party and Twinmotion will take care of it.

Thanks for your input Nlipovac
Yes, VRAM Is 16GB I think that is a plus for rendering.
My alternative choice is MSI WE75 RTX3000 32GB about $1800 cheaper, but I don’t have any idea about MSI.
So far Razer is the best choice and similar to MacBook design.
Thanks again.

Hello Sketchuppers,

Looking to up grade my mac for a new window laptop computer.
I am wondering if anybody is using Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition using Sketchup?
I was looking for a Nvidia RTX 30 SERIES but at the moment very limited brand available.

This studio edition is using NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, it is a bit pricey but justified.
I will be using 100% sketchup for Modelling then either Thea,Vray,Enscape, Twinmotion or Lumion Plugins
for rendering and animations.

I am sure that this card is capable Quadro for my needs, but not sure how Sketchup will behave?
I normally get a gaming cards not sure about this.

Any advice will be great full. Cheers and keep safe.

Sky is too dark as Majid mentioned. Try using dome light And play around intensity if it too bight .
For exterior I think vray Camera shutter speed is set to 300 as default,You can lower this down.
Just remember if you are doing interior scene shutter should be around 50 then adjust to suit.

Too much youtube tutorials for vray Skp. Most of them are really good but complex setup and sometimes take long to render.
Start at youtube Chaos group you will fine good tutorials and you can download a simple house scene here:

And try to study The setting used or reverse learning.
Good luck!

Have you try flowify plugin?

Thank you so much!