<div dir="auto">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.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 9:00 PM Tony Scharf <<a href="mailto:tony.scharf@outlook.com">tony.scharf@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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…<br>
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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. <br>
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Im more worried about my MOTU audio and MIDI hardware. It may finally be time to upgrade that.<br>
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Tony<br>
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> On Nov 17, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Joost Schuttelaar <<a href="mailto:joost@joostschuttelaar.nl" target="_blank">joost@joostschuttelaar.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 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?).<br>
> <br>
> 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.<br>
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> 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.<br>
> <br>
> Hmm, now we also know why they dropped support for 32-bit in Catalina...<br>
> <br>
> 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…<br>
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> Cheers,<br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> <br>
> Joost Schuttelaar<br>
> The Hague, NL<br>
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