<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17.11.2020, at 21:59, Tony Scharf <<a href="mailto:tony.scharf@outlook.com" class="">tony.scharf@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">They may mean to make laptops as disposable as iPhones…</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>For years I have treated my Apple laptops like paper notebooks - once I get a new one, the old one goes on the shelf for archival purposes. </div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">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. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I’ve stopped working on MacOS/iOS projects this year and am back into the embedded Linux world, professionally, and I’m pretty sure that unless I find a really, really compelling reason to do so (i.e. someone pays me to do some kind of *interesting* MacOS/iOS work again), I won’t get on the M1 bandwagon for at least another 2 or 3 years, once a few generations roll past - and only if things don’t go awry vis a vis Apples attack on general purpose computing.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Now I’m focusing personally on shifting to Pine-based platforms - PineWatch, PinePhone, etc. The Pine ecosystem is really, really appealing, especially given recent announcements, and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying hacking on the PineWatch (bare metal Rust). </div><div><br class=""></div><div>This seems to me to be a more sensible place to apply some attention, as the embedded-Linux and device-Linux markets are really expanding. I’ve done 4 pretty beefy embedded Linux projects this year, and its not slowing down for 2021.</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Im more worried about my MOTU audio and MIDI hardware. It may finally be time to upgrade that.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">See, that’s the thing - my whole studio has settled on the existing Presonus/Roland Audio/MIDI interfaces that I have in place, and I have absolutely no need to ever upgrade. Fortunately, this setup is MacOS and Linux- friendly, and if things go the way of the dodo for support in MacOS over the next few years, then it’ll just be 100% Linux in the studio for me from that point on.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Luckily, I do have access to a bigger studio where they have gone absolutely mad about updating everything to the latest Universal Audio high-end gear - that is also looking to be a dodgy move, given that its probably not going to be supported that well by UA on M1 for at least a year or so .. but hey, this is life in the computer world. We’ve rocked these waves before ..</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">j.</div></body></html>