Hey all,
A lot of the focus around the M1 is on video/photo editing. However there aren't a huge number of reports on audio or software development. I'm going to refer to M1 here as the generation rather than the specific chip, so that'll encompass the Pro/Max/Ultra. My daily driver is a 2016 MBP, which is fine, but I'm looking at a Studio to replace my Mac mini as an always on server and "grunt power" machine.
Audio
I understand Logic is now a universal app, so can run natively on M1 and slowly third parties are releasing native/universal installers. For example, I see Kontakt Player from Native instruments became a native app recently. How are people finding the general ecosystem? Has anyone found any issues with hardware, like audio interfaces? I'm not really worries about benchmarks, but has the transition been stable? Or stable enough for you?
Software Development
So on a day to day basis, I work as a software dev but do a fair bit of DevOps too. I use JetBrains IDEs for Java, Python and a few other bits, these seem to have been ported (except some of the C# stuff, but I don't use that). On top of this, I use home-brew and docker quite a lot. I'm aware any x86 images will need to go through translation, which may be a big performance hit. How have people found this? I've seen some reports that docker is quite slow on M1, but it seems to be getting better with time. As far as VMs go, I'm expecting this to be a bit painful to start with. Virtual Box aren't making any noises about supporting non-x86 hosts, but UTM seems to be an option for native ARM VMs. I predominantly use Ubuntu and CentOS VMs, so windows isn't an issue. Has this been ok for people?
Any experiences, good or bad, are useful
Thanks in advance
A lot of the focus around the M1 is on video/photo editing. However there aren't a huge number of reports on audio or software development. I'm going to refer to M1 here as the generation rather than the specific chip, so that'll encompass the Pro/Max/Ultra. My daily driver is a 2016 MBP, which is fine, but I'm looking at a Studio to replace my Mac mini as an always on server and "grunt power" machine.
Audio
I understand Logic is now a universal app, so can run natively on M1 and slowly third parties are releasing native/universal installers. For example, I see Kontakt Player from Native instruments became a native app recently. How are people finding the general ecosystem? Has anyone found any issues with hardware, like audio interfaces? I'm not really worries about benchmarks, but has the transition been stable? Or stable enough for you?
Software Development
So on a day to day basis, I work as a software dev but do a fair bit of DevOps too. I use JetBrains IDEs for Java, Python and a few other bits, these seem to have been ported (except some of the C# stuff, but I don't use that). On top of this, I use home-brew and docker quite a lot. I'm aware any x86 images will need to go through translation, which may be a big performance hit. How have people found this? I've seen some reports that docker is quite slow on M1, but it seems to be getting better with time. As far as VMs go, I'm expecting this to be a bit painful to start with. Virtual Box aren't making any noises about supporting non-x86 hosts, but UTM seems to be an option for native ARM VMs. I predominantly use Ubuntu and CentOS VMs, so windows isn't an issue. Has this been ok for people?
Any experiences, good or bad, are useful
Thanks in advance