Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
lol...now we need a brave soul to test run rb on mac new silicon useing win emulation.
Give me time wink

Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
a lot of the hp z xeon pc';s (and dell and lenovo's) come off lease every year <<< superb for music production...and i wonder how much this impacts mac sales. what i mean is here we have a 180 buck beast that blows the doors off and someone could save over a imacs price of 2k. (much as i like the new macs.)
Given my personal experience with an M1 Mac, no contest. It outperforms my old i9-9900k machine by a large margin, and that already outperforms the old workstations you're talking about.

It's not just raw performance, it's responsiveness. ARM architecture has less overhead than x86, which leads to (I believe) lower process latency, which likely results in lower DPC and audio latency. In synthetic benchmarks, my old 9900K was around 12% faster than the M1, yet I recently had a Logic project with over 200 tracks (with plenty of plugins) that the M1 easily handled while the 9900K choked on half of that.

Again, that's a 9900K with 64gb ram and an RX 580, vs an M1 with 16gb ram, both with 1tb NVME SSD's.

Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
i wonder if anyone has run logic pro under mac os emulation on pc.
Probably yes, but it's likely easier to get macOS running natively on a PC.

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