which Macbook Pro upgrade for Sketch up model rendering?

green retreats wrote:

Hi I'm looking to upgrade from my 2015 16 Gb MacBook pro.

I do garden designs on Sketch up pro which have a lot of planting added to them. I'd really like to improve on the final product and get into to rendering. I have dabbled on my current mac but one scene can take hours to render.

I was debating about getting a MacBook Pro 14-inch (2023) - Apple M3 Pro 11-core and 14-core GPU - 18GB RAM - SSD 1000GB. Could i get away with something less powerful?

ref: SketchUp Hardware and Software Requirements

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