

It really comes down to priorities and budget:ĭo you need Revit to be as fast as possible? The M1 Ultra will get you single core speeds of 3.2GHz, which as many here who are using it for Revit will tell you works great. That would be my choice in your situation. Most folks like that I know end up using Apple for everything except their PC. I don't envy anyone who works in Revit professionally who is also committed to the Apple ecosphere. If you have a tighter budget, there is some room for cost-cutting, and if you can afford more, you can easily double the memory and/or upgrade the CPU to an i9 Alder Lake.

If it fits your budget I highly recommend it or something very similar.

This list is my current "best in class, best value" Revit build. Revit is a hardware hog, for everything except the GPU (a little ironic for Revit users that also want to do high end gaming). Boutique builds can be quite expensive, but you can also find good deals from a number if System Integrators, and a DIY custom PC is relatively easy, satisfying, and gives you the peace of mind of knowing exactly what hardware is in it and what it can do. Please avoid Dell (or HP) or other mass produced workstation providers, they are demonstrably terrible. You can get a way with a laptop if you really need that, but in the long run that will be a limited and likely more expensive (by far) route as you take away a lot of upgrade paths, meaning you'd just buy new laptops later on. My best suggestion is, if you are a Revit professional, migrate to a purpose built Windows machine. Which leaves remote access to a purpose built Windows machine as your best option if you also need to use Mac OS. So, no native Mac Revit version, no Bootcamp on M chips, and virtualization defeats the whole point of using the higher end hardware (faster single core CPU) that Revit wants.
