Apple M1

[Tony Scharf]

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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