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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Yeah specs do look good.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I'm waiting for the Mac Pro to get the new silicon to replace my previous generations Mac Pro :-)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Questions about reliability and disposable hardware, that's not unique to Apple I guess...</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Mohsen</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 12:50:45 PM PST, Joost Schuttelaar <joost@joostschuttelaar.nl> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">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></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hmm, now we also know why they dropped support for 32-bit in Catalina...<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Cheers,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Joost Schuttelaar<br></div><div dir="ltr">The Hague, NL<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">music-bar mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">music-bar@lists.music-bar.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Listen to Music-Bar Radio! <<a href="http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html</a>></div></div>
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