### Author:  [@MZA](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/MZA)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/macbook-air-m2-for-3d-slicer/25354/1 "2022-09-20T11:13:54Z")
Hi,
Does the new MacBook Air M2 with 8-core GPU and 8 GB of RAM meet the requirements to run 3D Slicer smoothly?
Respects,
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### Author:  [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/macbook-air-m2-for-3d-slicer/25354/2 "2022-09-20T11:47:00Z")
Yes, in my experience for routine Slicer tasks it works well.
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### Author:  [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/macbook-air-m2-for-3d-slicer/25354/3 "2022-09-20T12:06:24Z")
There have been some reports of issues using the scissors tool in the Segment Editor module on Apple Silicon based machines.
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> \## Summary
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> Two users reported slowdowns when using M1 mac systems:
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> \> I’m u…sing 3D Slicer 4.11.20210226 (latest at time of writing) on my Windows PC without any performance issues, and I can segment CT scans (thorax, abdomen, wrists, etc) without any performance issues. Unfortunately I’m experiencing severe performance issues with the same version, and also 4.13.0-2022-03-15, on my MacBook Pro M1 (2020, 16 GB, macOS Monterey 12.3). I’m getting either a ever-lasting spinning beach ball or it crashes. I’ve tried it without any plugins.
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> https://discourse.slicer.org/t/performance-issues-on-mac-m1/22564
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> https://discourse.slicer.org/t/issues-running-slicer-on-macbook-m1-max/23974/3
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> \## Environment
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> \- MacBook Pro M1 (2020, 16 GB, macOS Monterey 12.3)
> \- MacBook M1 max
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### Author:  [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/macbook-air-m2-for-3d-slicer/25354/4 "2022-09-20T12:49:43Z")
I haven’t been able to reproduce the reported slowdowns on the M2 mac air, even with the scene provided by @sannpeterson. It would be good to hear what experience other people are having. It’s possible that an OS update fixed some issue or other.
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### Author:  [@hherhold](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/hherhold)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/macbook-air-m2-for-3d-slicer/25354/5 "2022-09-20T12:53:13Z")
(apologies for the slightly off-topic question, but I’m hoping M1 and M2 users could chime in…)
@pieper, have you done any volume rendering on an M1 or M2 Mac? I’m curious about the “unified” CPU and GPU ram, and how that’s handled with large datasets.
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### Author:  [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/macbook-air-m2-for-3d-slicer/25354/6 "2022-09-20T12:58:07Z")
@hherhold I haven’t done extensive testing, but it seems pretty good for a lightweight laptop. If I use the CTACardio sample data I notice some slowdown if I maximize the 3D view.
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### Author:  [@hherhold](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/hherhold)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/macbook-air-m2-for-3d-slicer/25354/7 "2022-09-20T12:59:47Z")
Hmm, sounds good. (Always thinking of the next computer.)
Thanks!!!
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### Author:  [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/macbook-air-m2-for-3d-slicer/25354/8 "2022-09-20T13:28:42Z")
For comparison, my 3 year old mac pro with AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 16 GB doesn’t show much slowdown for the same data on a 4k monitor (of course the mac pro is like 100 times bigger!)
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### Author:  [@hherhold](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/hherhold)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/macbook-air-m2-for-3d-slicer/25354/9 "2022-09-20T13:32:30Z")
Yeah, my 2019 MBP 16" with AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB still does quite well. A little concerned over the loss of a discrete GPU in the new Macs.
But that’s a problem for another day
Thanks again!
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### Author:  [@MZA](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/MZA)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/macbook-air-m2-for-3d-slicer/25354/10 "2022-09-21T16:57:18Z")
You think if I do segmentation of cerebral arteries and veins I will face a slowdown?
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### Author:  [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/macbook-air-m2-for-3d-slicer/25354/11 "2022-09-21T21:27:46Z")
I don’t know - if you know of a sample dataset of comparable complexity then people could try on various machines and compare results.