I have tried (unsuccessfully) to purchase a Macbook Pro that will run Starlight Mini and process locally? I got a “you do not have the proper hardware” error message even though I bought the exact computer a blogger linked to as the correct one to buy (yeah, I know, I know). I’m not a computer techie but I want to be able to take advantage of the upgrades I paid for if I can. Does anyone know what Macs will handle Starlight Mini and render locally without going to the cloud render?
You need at least 36 GB of RAM according to official specs - I’d even say 64GB is the minimum (seeing that Starlight mini takes up over 50GB).
M3 machines seem to be problematic with at least one user having artifacts.
My M2 Ultra runs fine (quality wise) - but at slow speed.
Generally it’s not a good idea to run Starlight on a Notebook (no matter if windows or Mac).
Here are the minimum system requirements for the Starlight models
