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Are there any desktop hardware recommendations beyond the stated minimum requirements that help Revit run its best?
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**moved to Hardware** the best thing i can recomend is to get an Apple Pro! nothing come close in term of performance and value for money, all of our hardware is Apple 
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Please don't go with apple anything for performance. Last time they had a clock speed worth mentioning was in the '90s. If anything stripped down, go with a Unix system - it's apple without the crappy hardware. Back to your question, I think optimized recommendations were for a dual processor & as much RAM as you want to stack.
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isn't osx unix based and most likely revit is being run via boot camp so its running in windows anyway? Clock speed isn't everything i.e. amd. I'd just buy a high clock speed dual core. Save some money for when revit can multi-core. Don't count on any serious speed improvements until then.
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MarauderX, I can't disagree with you more! when was the last time you had a look? Mac hardware actually runs windows faster through boot camp than a PC! my Macbook pro is the fastest PC notebook in the world! it is not about the clock speed, it's about all the hardware working together and optimised. last time we tested HP top of the range against the Mac Pro and the HP was far behind on all the test and was more expensive! more RAM will defenitly help, but if you are runing 32bit, windows won't see more than 3 (that's after editing the boot.ini) Dual CPU, for sure (not that you can get a single these days) Revit will only use more than 1 for rendering, this will change eventualy...
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Well, I've put together machines that run any Adobe product way faster than a Mac, and at less cost. All I know is that my massive music, design, and graphics (and, well, games) files run on a 3-year-old machine faster & without flunking out. Meanwhile my workmates stay committed to their buddy Steve Jobs and add more memory as if it will fix their boxes. I agree that components working together is key, and this is why software developers hate to make programs for it - too much propritary hardware that forces software to behave like a chimp on a leash. With my laptop I have been able to program my shock sensor to command windows media player. One tap and it forwards to the next song, two taps it goes back. Let me know when you can get that flexible with a mac.
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lol on my old Ibook I had a program on the dashboard that would use the output from the shock sensor to tell me how level the table it was sitting on was. When you beat on the computer to activate the shock sensor doesn't it stop the hard drive??
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Not when you are tapping it, as it detects degrees of shock and the motion of falling.
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