Apple M1

[Niall Munnelly]

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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-- 
Yours,
Niall.
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