This thread reminds me to see how he's getting along with his master plan to see if he could do it all in one machine VS a couple computers, with those specs. There's a guy who composes for NIN over at VI control who bought the maxed out M1 Max, 64GB RAM, 8TB ssd etc. ![]() I'm just delving into orchestral type composing really, but yeah RAM needs are a hell of a lot more in that world, so it's always possible I switch to a Windows PC for a sample library slave, the apple tax to match the 96GB RAM in this old mac pro might be too rich for my blood. Yep, my strategy for the M1 transition is to get the Air, which is just a design masterpiece really, and use it with VEP and the Mac Pro until developers are all on board the Apple Silicon train, at that point getting the desktop to retire the Mac Pro with. As the Beach Boys sang, "Savin' my nickels, savin' my dimes…" The replacement for the 27" iMacs including the Pro, next MP and a beefier Mini are all rumored to be out by Fall 2022. Also personally, it's possible that a M1 Pro and Max Mac Mini is released in the next 5 months, if you can wait for that, it might be the way to go. With that in mind, the Mini can support two external monitors without Display Link, and has more ports. ![]() Personally if you're talking the difference between the MBP and the Mini, then you're not worried about portability. That being said, 16GB is a bare minimum IMO for what we do regardless of how much better the M1's are at dealing with RAM. In Ableton Live with clips it was possible to max out RAM because of how much data was being stored there for time stretching algorithms and loading a small amount of data into RAM to facilitate faster clip firing. The only times I run into RAM limitations with a DAW are with large sample libraries, and with Clips. Quite honestly I never ran into RAM limits using regular non sample based plugins and linear DAWs. Since I have no need for a MBP running DP, I’ll let others speculate on the Pro and Max chips. I want my projects to render quickly and am spoiled by my current machine-if the next one isn’t faster, what’s the point? No way that I’ll get less than 32GB when Apple finally releases the iMP replacement, though. Unless doing large amounts of Photoshop, animation or intense AV, it’s hard to believe that any of us need more than 16GB for audio. ![]() Browsers, especially, use far more than anyone ever thinks. Then there is the fact that, the more RAM you have, the more apps you can have open. I’ve played with DP 11.04 on my wife’s M1 MBAir and it is quite good - hers has 8GB unified. There are those who claim that the 8GBRAM/8Core/7coreGPU M1 like my wife’s outperforms any Intel Mini-I can't verify that.īack to the M1 Mini: Do we really want to cheap out over $200 for 16GB over 8GB RAM when we spend so much time at these? If buying now, I’d go 16GB/16Core/(all M1 Minis have 8core GPU). ![]() I can’t imagine a 16GB M1 Mini running worse and the integrated 8 Core GPU smokes the Intel. These figures are done with Logic (it is Apple, after all) but an 6 core i7 Intel MINI with 32GB RAM can run over 1,000 tracks with a separate instance of a VI and reverb on each track (the comparison was a 12 core MP 6.1 with 64GB RAM that choked on 300 tracks). I’ve not seen any chart that says x amount of unified RAM equals xy amount of discrete RAM, only overall performance figures-but they are impressive. For AV, only the high end iMac Pro and Mac Pro 7.1 outperform these. The efficiency of unified RAM in the M1 is way better than the discrete RAM of the Intel Macs - so is the GPU.
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