Apple M1

[Joost Schuttelaar]

Ah, I can agree with that. The MacBook Pro’s after 2016 are really not great, quality-wise.

My 2016 model had continuous random crashes with external displays, resulting in three logic board replacements, also two top case replacements due to keyboard issues.

Then got it swapped out for a complimentary 2018 model that I’m using now. That one had a battery issue, which again means a top-case replacement.

All fixes free of charge and without a fuss from Apple, by the way.

Forget about repairing these machines yourself, I think that ship has sailed long ago :)

Cheers,

-- 

Joost Schuttelaar
The Hague, NL

> On 17 Nov 2020, at 23:04, Niall Munnelly <niall.munnelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In my experience so far, MacBook Pros have been really shitty, and the options for repairing/replacing broken parts are shittier, still. This definitely fills me with some dread. I’m not so sure I’ve had a Mac of any stripe remain reliable for more than a year or two since pre-Intel days.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 9:00 PM Tony Scharf <tony.scharf at outlook.com> wrote:
> There is a lot I like about the new M1 chips…and a lot that makes me nervous.  It seems their goal is to make it impossible to run anything BUT Apple Silicon.  No upgrades allowed.  It’s either buy a new machine, or deal with the old one.   They may mean to make laptops as disposable as iPhones…
> 
> In any case, I’m taking a wait and see.  My 2015 iMac is still pretty ok….starting to get a little full, and some newer plugins cause some choking…but it still works.   
> 
> Im more worried about my MOTU audio and MIDI hardware.   It may finally be time to upgrade that.
> 
> Tony
> 
> > On Nov 17, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Joost Schuttelaar <joost at joostschuttelaar.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > So, those benchmarks arriving today are quite impressive. I can’t wait for Apple to set up a system with four of these little monsters, perhaps with a secondary set of off-chip RAM slots (maybe SSD speeds are fast enough anwyay?).
> > 
> > The baseline specs of Mac’s jumped a lot too — now a measly MacBook Air is on par with the fastest Intel MacBook Pro, with a bunch of ML-cores to spare. Will be interesting to see what audio stuff will be run on those (e.g. instrument separation?). It also doesn’t bode well for DSP-hardware boards, they are now obviously just electricity wasting dongles.
> > 
> > Plugin compatibility will be limited I expect. So when I upgrade to ARM I’ll probably downgrade my current machine (MacBook Pro 2018) to Mojave. Still got some old tracks with 32-bit only plugins.
> > 
> > Hmm, now we also know why they dropped support for 32-bit in Catalina...
> > 
> > Coincidentally I just received an old AGP-video card so I can revive my old Athlon XP 2400 Windows XP machine running Sonar… I religiously backed up all my old tracks & WIPs, but never bounced them to audio (arrrghhhhh). And also never backed up all those downloadaed plugins (double yaarrrgghh), so that’ll be a fun challenge to get some of them playing again…
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Joost Schuttelaar
> > The Hague, NL
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