MacBooks with Retina displays usually have one of these but you can check to make sure. Do use a host machine with a Nvidia Graphics card.I also set my system to delete the cache after I close the project. Enable Vertical Synchronization, and test the Speed -|- Quality slider. Make sure your 3D accelerator matches your VM host. Go ahead and monkey with the settings a little. My video stuttering problems STOPPED when I chose DirectX9. Parallels has options for OpenGL, DirectX10 and DirectX9. There is some compatibility issue with DirectX10. I know this is counterintuitive but the virtualization experts told me that ArcGIS Pro uses DirectX11 by default if it's available then jumps down to DirectX9. Parallels allows me do shave off another 2GB to the Video Memory still leaving 6 GB to run the MacBook.
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I moved from 8 to 16 and dedicate a full 8 GB to my virtual machine. VM Ware Fusion and Parallels are virtually identical in benchmark testing with ArcGIS Pro. Virtual Box is nice if you aren't doing anything serious but doesn't have the options or horsepower that a production machine requires.
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Do I even need top point out how Apple was the only PC maker to have double digit growth in the past year? Point is there will be a lot of people trying to figure out how to run ArcGIS Pro on their MacBooks and the folks at the conference helped me out so I pass along that info to you: You have to do this when you talk about Esri software running on a Mac. (it seemed like they were there waiting just for me!) We spoke about my set up, there was a bit of nose-wrinkling but I looked around and pointed out about a dozen or so Macs throughout the Expo center.
Last week during the Esri Business Partner Conference I spoke to a few virtualization experts who were demonstrating ArcGIS Pro on a virtual machine. Unfortunately, these easy answers didn't help with the display, I was still getting jumpy navigation and 3D felt like it was on Windows 2000.
The display flickered & stuttered quite a lot and seemed to be constantly loading something. In anticipation for full release of ArcGIS Pro v1.0, I upgraded to the most current version of Parallels (10) and doubled my RAM to 16GB. I had played with the Beta a while ago, and it didn't run too well on my current system.