Originally Posted by Mike Halloran
As PG Music has stated many times over the years, with GarageBand being free, they saw no point. With the DAW plug-in introduced a few years back, I have to agree.
Precisely.

Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
much as the new m series processors excite the tech in me i might just get a m2 mac to see what i can do with it when cheap refurbs are available with m2 tech as users upgrade to future versions like m3 or m4 or whatever.
I've seen some of the M1 Mac Mini's floating around for under $500 CAD. Worth every penny if you ask me, considering the M1 easily can outperform an i9 or Ryzen at a tenth of the wattage.

Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
but what im really interested in and which excites me is how apple engineering deal with the laws of physics as the power of the m series is ramped higher. ie how many ghz can engineering wring out in future
m cpu series....its gonna be very interesting.
Ghz doesn't matter much anymore - that was proven over 20 years ago when the first Pentium 4 CPU's were being outperformed by significantly lower clocked Pentium 3's. These days it's efficiency and scalability that offer speed gains. All of the M-series chips are between 3.2 and 3.68 ghz - the performance difference between versions is in the amount of cores and the energy efficiency. More efficient means more flops per watt of heat.

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