I’m currently using an Apple MacBook Pro as my main computer. Also, I’m using Carbide Create 838 version as my main design software. When I opened Carbide Create this morning I got a notice that it may not open with a future IOS update. Has anyone else received this notice when using an Apple product? In the attached link, the first paragraph kind of gets right to the point. Any information would be helpful, thanks in advance. Using Intel-based apps on a Mac with Apple silicon - Apple Support
For clarity, you’re probably talking about MacOS, not iOS.
Apple is planning to remove support for Intel programs with the next major release of MacOS, which is what we’ve been using from the start. So, when that happens, we’ll begin building Motion and Create for Apple ARM, not Intel. We wrote a little about this at Intel Support on macOS | Carbide 3D
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Yeah, my mistake. Thanks for the update and link.
Just adding my 2 cents as a MAC user - while I do have access to a windows PC, I prefer doing design work on my Silicon-based Macbook. Please don’t forget about us! Thank you!
Support for Mac computers is not going away. When Apple ends Rosetta, we’ll support Apple Silicon only, not Intel.
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I use an older Intel-based Mac for Carbide Motion. I’d be sad if that stopped getting updates. Could you please build fat binaries that support both architectures?
We don’t own any Intel Macs anymore, so we don’t really have a way to test that platform even now. Right now, macOS is a minority of our users (ranked by downloads) and Intel Macs are a minority of that. We’ll stick with Intel builds for as long as we can but supporting the Intel platform that Apple is effectively abandoning is a tough one for a small company.
Edit: To add one more thing- this is why we’ve been such a fan of local apps, rather than cloud apps. The code we publish should continue to run for years- none of it depends on our servers or newer apps. There’s no forced-upgrades with CM or CC.
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I’m pretty much in the same boat as @rgjacobsen is in. I have a M4 MacBook as my main computer but I would hate to take that thing out to the shop. My plan, when it’s time, is to get an older M1 MacBook to replace the Intel machine.
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