Flip Flopping between macOS and Windows

[TorontoJen]

I have been struggling the past few months, going between Mac and PC, before being forced into my decision.
I can’t get the necessary software I need on the Mac.
I’m a full-time writer with both carpal tunnel and tennis elbow, and I need dictation software. Dragon dictation ditched their software for the Mac, and it’s no longer available.
I could just use parallels on the Mac, but my MacBook 12” is too weak to do the job, and my old 2015 Pro is honestly too slow. It would work, but it would probably drive me bonkers.
I’ve settled on using a new-ish Dell Inspiron to get the job done. No it’s not high-end, but it does the job perfectly well.
However, I had a heck of a time setting it up properly, and ran into soooo many stupid issues. It took weeks to tweak because it had been 11 years since I’ve used a PC for anything more than dabbling. Weeks!
The Dell is great now that it’s set up, but it would be greater if it had more RAM.
I now use my PC for 85% of my needs, and use my Macs for book formatting and design work.
But, I still miss my Mac. I prefer the OS. I do have things I really love about my little Dell, though. It does a few things better, I admit.
But stupid issues still crop up.
My Dell, for whatever reason, turns off after 20 minutes of no use, even though it’s not set up to do that in settings. No idea why.
I also had my cursor turn diamond shaped for no reason. It’s weird little things like this that make me miss the finesse of the Mac.
For now, though, I am PC.

 

[pshufd]

I have been struggling the past few months, going between Mac and PC, before being forced into my decision.
I can’t get the necessary software I need on the Mac.
I’m a full-time writer with both carpal tunnel and tennis elbow, and I need dictation software. Dragon dictation ditched their software for the Mac, and it’s no longer available.
I could just use parallels on the Mac, but my MacBook 12” is too weak to do the job, and my old 2015 Pro is honestly too slow. It would work, but it would probably drive me bonkers.
I’ve settled on using a new-ish Dell Inspiron to get the job done. No it’s not high-end, but it does the job perfectly well.
However, I had a heck of a time setting it up properly, and ran into soooo many stupid issues. It took weeks to tweak because it had been 11 years since I’ve used a PC for anything more than dabbling. Weeks!
The Dell is great now that it’s set up, but it would be greater if it had more RAM.
I now use my PC for 85% of my needs, and use my Macs for book formatting and design work.
But, I still miss my Mac. I prefer the OS. I do have things I really love about my little Dell, though. It does a few things better, I admit.
But stupid issues still crop up.
My Dell, for whatever reason, turns off after 20 minutes of no use, even though it’s not set up to do that in settings. No idea why.
I also had my cursor turn diamond shaped for no reason. It’s weird little things like this that make me miss the finesse of the Mac.
For now, though, I am PC.

I need to do a YouTube video on my setup personal PC setup. Many of us go through this process.

I hadn't used Windows in a while but didn't have too many problems getting back into it. I run Windows for most things with screen sharing into my 2014 MacBook Pro to run macOS things that I like, mainly Reminders, Notes, and Calendar. Sometimes Firefox as well. I have considered running it the other way around as well.

If your system requires more RAM, just go out and add third-party RAM. You have two other Macs so you could do screen sharing from your Dell to the other two Macs and run programs on all three at the same time but accessed through your Dell. Graphics-intensive and audio-intensive things tend not to work well through screen sharing but it may be an option.

On tennis elbow, I recommend the Flexbar. I developed Golfers Elbow about ten years ago and had to take a six-month break from tennis which was difficult as many develop tennis elbow and golfers elbow from the addictive nature of the sports and can't stop playing, even when there are clear signs of serious injury. There are other exercises that you can do similar to the Flexbar but it puts them in a convenient package that you can leave on your desk and do when you have a few minutes.

One other thing is that I've been pleasantly surprised at the ways that Microsoft has copied macOS. The two major ones so far for me are Windows 10 Mail which feels a lot like Apple Mail and Virtual Desktop which is like Spaces. I have been having problems with Thunderbird on both macOS and Windows so using the vendor-provided email is nice.

I still peruse the local Craigslist Computer ads for 2008-2012 Mac Pro models hoping that I can go back to full macOS at some point but, pragmatically, Windows + Screen Share macOS works really well. It's what I need but not what I want.

 

[TorontoJen]

Thanks for all of the tips.

As for the RAM, it isn’t upgradable in this particular model, which basically sucks. It’s not a big deal, it would just help make Word and Dragon work easier together. But I found a workaround, so it’s manageable.

 

[pshufd]

Thanks for all of the tips.

As for the RAM, it isn’t upgradable in this particular model, which basically sucks. It’s not a big deal, it would just help make Word and Dragon work easier together. But I found a workaround, so it’s manageable.

I have a few old Inspirons and am surprised that they have gone to soldered in. I will only buy XPS systems from Dell these days (or professional systems).

 

[kazmac]

PC is being returned tomorrow to Amazon and those parts I cannot return I will sell.

My personal computer needs are now being served by an iPad Pro 11 and an iPhone SE.

For work I’m happy using my work supplied windows laptop, but I will probably replace it with an ARM MacBook later in the year. Those should be cool and quiet.

Lightroom works really well on iPad Pro. If I get the itch to game I will pick up a next gen console.

Really love this setup. This may be the one.

As someone whose attempts at moving away from Apple haven't clicked in yet, I can relate.

Glad you found what you needed.

The Omen was a mess (a lemon), not sure what laptop I will pick up (Need a laptop given my home situation).

 

[The_Interloper]

I have been struggling the past few months, going between Mac and PC, before being forced into my decision.
I can’t get the necessary software I need on the Mac.
I’m a full-time writer with both carpal tunnel and tennis elbow, and I need dictation software. Dragon dictation ditched their software for the Mac, and it’s no longer available.
I could just use parallels on the Mac, but my MacBook 12” is too weak to do the job, and my old 2015 Pro is honestly too slow. It would work, but it would probably drive me bonkers.

This is a real problem for the Mac. Losing Dragon may seem trivial for some, but it leaves a crater-sized hole for those who use it. Apple's own Voice Control is a dud for dictation and there is nothing as good as Dragon out there - meaning the PC version via Parallels is the only option and even that is going away with the switch to ARM.

 

[pshufd]

One thing that I miss from macOS is one-click screenshots. Windows 10 has Snip and Sketch but you need to go into a paint application to get your file. I asked my daughter to write a program to save the clipboard to a unique file on the desktop. It would be a two-click solution but better than five or six that I have to do now. Another approach would be if Windows has an automation tool.

 

[BigMcGuire]

One thing that I miss from macOS is one-click screenshots. Windows 10 has Snip and Sketch but you need to go into a paint application to get your file. I asked my daughter to write a program to save the clipboard to a unique file on the desktop. It would be a two-click solution but better than five or six that I have to do now. Another approach would be if Windows has an automation tool.

Yeah, this frustrates me. I purchased Snag-It on my windows machine for this purpose.

 

[The_Interloper]

One thing that I miss from macOS is one-click screenshots. Windows 10 has Snip and Sketch but you need to go into a paint application to get your file. I asked my daughter to write a program to save the clipboard to a unique file on the desktop. It would be a two-click solution but better than five or six that I have to do now. Another approach would be if Windows has an automation tool.

Press Windows key+PrtScn - this gives you the "one click" approach of Cmd+Shift+3 (files are saved in Pictures>Screenshots).

There are several other ways of taking screenshots in Windows here: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-screenshot-on-windows?r=US&IR=T

 

[BigMcGuire]

Press Windows key+PrtScn - this gives you the "one click" approach of Cmd+Shift+3 (files are saved in Pictures>Screenshots).

There are several other ways of taking screenshots in Windows here: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-screenshot-on-windows?r=US&IR=T

Yes, Windows Key + Shift + S !!!! Still involves clicking the snip and saving it. ---- I love Mac's ability to cut out a portion of the screen and either put it in the clipboard or save it in one action.

 

[pshufd]

Press Windows key+PrtScn - this gives you the "one click" approach of Cmd+Shift+3 (files are saved in Pictures>Screenshots).

There are several other ways of taking screenshots in Windows here: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-screenshot-on-windows?r=US&IR=T

I was looking for screen region capture. On macOS, you hit the key combo, select the corners and it saves it to a unique filename on your keyboard. A one-click solution. On Windows, shift-windows-s, select region, click on the sketch option, save in the sketch option. I was looking around at Windows programming tools and I may be able to write something that does the same thing as macOS - that is one-click (to select the region) screen capture. Windows has added a lot of high-level development tools since I last did development on it.

 

[Frankied22]

Yes, Windows Key + Shift + S !!!! Still involves clicking the snip and saving it. ---- I love Mac's ability to cut out a portion of the screen and either put it in the clipboard or save it in one action.

I would suggest installing and trying out ShareX. It is a very powerful screenshot and screen capture program for windows and that can be highly customized.

 

[canesalato]

Yes, Windows Key + Shift + S !!!! Still involves clicking the snip and saving it. ---- I love Mac's ability to cut out a portion of the screen and either put it in the clipboard or save it in one action.

If you press Windows key+PrtScn (not Windows Key + Shift + S)you will have what you look for.
edit: never mind, this only works for a fullscreen screenshot, not for a region. =)

 

[Erehy Dobon]

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I ordered this Acer Swift 3 (model SF314-57-59EY), 10th-gen Core i5, 14" HD screen:

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which retails for US$680 (sales tax not included) and mentioned TB3 in the specs. I was skeptical at best (comments by Amazon customers ignored TB3) but figured that if TB3 did not live up, I could return the unit. Acer also sells Swift 3 models with AMD Ryzen CPUs but I wanted the Thunderbolt 3 functionality.
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Just a followup of my adventures in owning my first personal Windows notebook (I used Windows systems for a long time at work when I was still doing the corporate thing).

The original eGPU combo had issues. After a week of seemingly normal use, it shut down after 10 minutes, even with no load. Luckily I had three Thunderbolt 3-equipped computers and two graphics cards on hand to diagnose the maddening issue. The likely culprit was a Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box with a faulty power supply. Anyhow it was sent back and a replacement eventually made it to my place.

The new eGPU hardware is rock solid (Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box 550 + Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580) paired with the Acer Swift 3 notebook. For an old man casual gamer like me, this seems to be quite serviceable for the occasional dabbling with Resident Evil (7, 4, 2) or Tomb Raider (2013 revival, Anniversary, Shadow, Rise). I'm not even using a proper gaming monitor, I have a moldy 60Hz FHD television and a good corporate-style LG 4K/60Hz UHD monitor (although the latter does have FreeSync 2).

One interesting revelation: using AMD VCE hardware encoding on Handbrake (Windows) isn't as fast as using VideoToolBox on my T2-equipped Mac mini 2018. I know GPUs aren't often ideal for video encoding but I also realize that the RX 580 isn't a top-of-the-line GPU today.

Funny, even if the same program exists on Macs and Windows PCs, often the Windows version has far more features than the Mac version. I've known this a L-O-O-O-N-G time with Quicken. Quicken for Mac is retarded; Quicken for Windows kicks ass. Handbrake for Windows has far more settings and features than Handbrake for Mac.

GIMP on Windows is at version 2.10.20 released a few weeks ago. GIMP on Mac is at version 2.10.14 which is like nine months old.

There is a plethora of applications on Windows. One challenge is finding the good ones. There are definitely a boatload of crappy Windows apps.

At some point, I will compare Tomb Raider on Windows vs. Tomb Raider on Mac. I already have a guess at what the end verdict will be... No such opportunity for Resident Evil. What's wrong? Don't Mac users like turning zombies into dead polygons as much as Windows users?

The eGPU on a Windows box does open up one door that is largely closed to Mac users: virtual reality. I had dabbled a bit several years ago on my iPhone SE (the original one) with VR using a Google Cardboard viewer. A couple of days ago I received an Oculus Rift S. I was skeptical but knowing that I could return it if I was unsatisfied, I took the plunge. I expected something dorky and kludgy; I was pleasantly surprised by a polished introductory setup.

Perhaps this weekend if I have time I will try to figure out how to fire up one of the Tomb Raider games in VR. Maybe I should video myself to see how dorky I look using the Oculus. I have a tripod for my iPhone...

If anyone has a suggestion to a malware removal/performance optimization online tutorial, I would be happy to take a look. My piddly Windows notebook PC seems to be running smoothly so perhaps I got rid of the most egregious bloatware (from Acer, Microsoft et al.).

I know I bought a modest Acer but unlike most of the participants in this thread, I have very little experience in recent Windows PC ownership (I built my own dual-boot Windows-Linux PCs twenty years ago) so I did not want to blow a big budget (like the OP) on my first personal PC notebook. My expectations were low. Next time around (2-3 years?) I might opt for a Dell XPS 13.

One thing for sure, it is helpful to read comments/suggestions/advice from people who experienced both operating systems in depth.

 

[MecPro]

Lol this thread is funny 😄

So I’m in a similar position. I have all the PC parts coming to me over the next few days but I’ve already opted to return them, I just don’t feel ready to go back to PC.

So I have a MBP 2016 and I work in cyber security and have studied/work coming up which means VMs running Windows and Linux. My MBP chockes on more than 1 VM as I normally need to run password cracking (GPU) or some type of forensic tool. Also I have exams coming up soon which will take over 24 hours and recently when I put my MBP to sleep, it doesn’t wake up and I have to hard reboot, it’s been like that maybe once a week.

Also I only have 500GB not his laptop and constantly deleting things. I can't run more than 2 VMs due to some of my VMs being filled with study data which is around 50GB.

So I designed a 3700x (£220), 32GB (£140), Samsung EVO 1 TB (£130), 2070S (£550) desktop for around £1400 for my exams and future studies. I’d keep my MBP but I just don’t know if I should get a Mac Mini 2020 to make things easier!

The choice would have been easier if Apple just gave us one more Intel CPU update as I’m not paying that much for an old CPU and terrible GPU. Also Apple charging £400 for 32GB DDR4-2600 RAM (bought separately) is a joke when Samsung are doing better chips for around £150. Also £200 for 1TB is laughable...

My heart says Apple, but my head says Windows. Unfortunately it just doesn’t seems like Apple cater to people who care about what is actually inside their machine.

*edit: After reading this, it almost makes it clearer I need to just stick with my Windows build.

 

[pshufd]

Lol this thread is funny 😄

So I’m in a similar position. I have all the PC parts coming to me over the next few days but I’ve already opted to return them, I just don’t feel ready to go back to PC.

So I have a MBP 2016 and I work in cyber security and have studied/work coming up which means VMs running Windows and Linux. My MBP chockes on more than 1 VM as I normally need to run password cracking (GPU) or some type of forensic tool. Also I have exams coming up soon which will take over 24 hours and recently when I put my MBP to sleep, it doesn’t wake up and I have to hard reboot, it’s been like that maybe once a week.

Also I only have 500GB not his laptop and constantly deleting things. I can't run more than 2 VMs due to some of my VMs being filled with study data which is around 50GB.

So I designed a 3700x (£220), 32GB (£140), Samsung EVO 1 TB (£130), 2070S (£550) desktop for around £1400 for my exams and future studies. I’d keep my MBP but I just don’t know if I should get a Mac Mini 2020 to make things easier!

The choice would have been easier if Apple just gave us one more Intel CPU update as I’m not paying that much for an old CPU and terrible GPU. Also Apple charging £400 for 32GB DDR4-2600 RAM (bought separately) is a joke when Samsung are doing better chips for around £150. Also £200 for 1TB is laughable...

My heart says Apple, but my head says Windows. Unfortunately it just doesn’t seems like Apple cater to people who care about what is actually inside their machine.

*edit: After reading this, it almost makes it clearer I need to just stick with my Windows build.

The Mac Mini is a nice system and I have and am considering it. The issue for me is thermals. If I bought one, I'd need some kind of cooling chamber for it.

 

[kazmac]

The Mac Mini is a nice system and I have and am considering it. The issue for me is thermals. If I bought one, I'd need some kind of cooling chamber for it.

I agree. I would love a Mac Mini with better gpu, thermals, and fixed Bluetooth & WiFi. Would buy one in a heartbeat if those issues are addressed.

I’ve been talking/thinking about the Asus ProArt laptops for awhile, so I pulled the trigger on the 17” RTX 2060 model.

 

[BigMcGuire]

I used a 2014 Mac mini as a primary desktop for years - even played WoW on it. The case fans were always screaming - it helped to put a few coasters under the bottom to raise the Mac mini a bit so it got air easier... but that thing was always high fan usage. I even tried to use it recently with an external SSD and it was just too annoying. My 2017 MBP will output to a 4k monitor completely silently so...

 

[LiE_]

ARM Mac Mini will be a nice machine.

 

[pshufd]

I've done experiments with Virtual Machines running from yosemite to high sierra and it's not viable. I upgraded Notes in High Sierra and lower versions of macOS will work for me. High Sierra is too slow as a VM on my system.

I had a problem with running iCloud Notes in the browser. On Mozilla-based browsers (Firefox and Seamonkey), I had this weird black-region problem where the document would go all black in-between keystrokes. On all of the Chromium-based browsers, Notes would run for a day and then gradually consume up to 12 GB of RAM. I'd restart it and it would do it again. I found that a few other people have reported the Firefox problem with iCloud Notes so I got some more information about the problem and eventually found a fix - wipe out Firefox on your system including your profiles and then reinstall. So that's a major issue for me resolved.

Another issue: I love Apple Mail. I tried Microsoft Mail which is a clone of Apple Mail but Microsoft can get things wrong, even when they just want to copy Apple. I have had problems with Thunderbird running four email accounts - it hangs from time to time. It comes back but you can't do anything else while it's hung. So I am cleaning out 18 years of email from my accounts. That is I'm archiving my emails to my 2014 MacBook Pro system disk and off the various email servers. This should greatly improve performance of Thunderbird so that I'll just use that for email. I really prefer Apple Mail but Apple Mail doesn't run on Windows. I had considered the Web Version but I prefer a thick client for email.

I want one-click screen capture (discussed earlier). I plan to use the system function and then write a perl, python or c++ program or script to write it into a file on the desktop. I'm amazed that nobody has already done this.

I have WSL running but I haven't figured out how you access the Windows file system from the Linux side. Having Linux will make a number of things easier for me. I would like to be able to use Linux tools over Windows files and I hope that is possible. Typing wsl in front of every command on the Windows side is tedious.

Maybe ARM solves all of Apple's problems. It has the potential to revolutionize the PC industry - I would be worried if I were Intel, Microsoft and AMD. Even scarier? If they decide to take on the server market.

This will likely speed up my iPhone and iPad Mini as I think that they carry all of those old emails along too.

 

[Erehy Dobon]

Maybe ARM solves all of Apple's problems. It has the potential to revolutionize the PC industry - I would be worried if I were Intel, Microsoft and AMD.

I'm doubting this right now.

One application that I run right now on both Mac and Windows is Fidelity Active Trader Pro. This is actually a Windows executable recently updated to be 64-bit. However, it runs on macOS in a customized version of CrossOver. Application performance is WAY better on Windows. In fact, my craptastic $170 Intel Celeron PC (6GB RAM/64GB SSD) runs it at least as well as my Core i7 6-core Mac mini 2018 (16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) that cost nearly ten times as much.

At this point, I'm not sure if an Apple Silicon Mac will be able to run this x86 executable. And I am willing to bet a buffalo nickel that it cannot do so at that same price point as my ghetto Wintel PC.

Much of this will be on application developers not Apple. If Fidelity rewrites Active Trader Pro to run natively on Arm architecture, now we are talking. That also opens up the possibility of running this on iPads (currently it cannot).

Even scarier? If they decide to take on the server market.

Apple does not appear to have any interest in this market.

The more likely scenario would be for Apple to replace much of their third-party datacenter hardware with their own homegrown boxes built from binned SoCs that failed GPU QA. My guess is that Apple has already started doing this to a limited extent.

Rather than have a bunch of i64 cores running at the same minimum frequency, Apple Arm SoCs have a combination of high-performance and low-power cores.

Apple does not need to beat Intel and AMD in the datacenter on Geekbench results. They would want to strike an advantageous balance in performance-per-watt, the first and most important thing Johny Sroudji pointed on in his WWDC keynote segment. Apple can keep this advantage to themselves, just like keeping their Ax SoCs proprietary and not selling the parts to third parties.

 

[pshufd]

I'm doubting this right now.

One application that I run right now on both Mac and Windows is Fidelity Active Trader Pro. This is actually a Windows executable recently updated to be 64-bit. However, it runs on macOS in a customized version of CrossOver. Application performance is WAY better on Windows. In fact, my craptastic $170 Intel Celeron PC (6GB RAM/64GB SSD) runs it at least as well as my Core i7 6-core Mac mini 2018 (16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) that cost nearly ten times as much.

At this point, I'm not sure if an Apple Silicon Mac will be able to run this x86 executable. And I am willing to bet a buffalo nickel that it cannot do so at that same price point as my ghetto Wintel PC.

Much of this will be on application developers not Apple. If Fidelity rewrites Active Trader Pro to run natively on Arm architecture, now we are talking. That also opens up the possibility of running this on iPads (currently it cannot).


Apple does not appear to have any interest in this market.

The more likely scenario would be for Apple to replace much of their third-party datacenter hardware with their own homegrown boxes built from binned SoCs that failed GPU QA. My guess is that Apple has already started doing this to a limited extent.

Rather than have a bunch of i64 cores running at the same minimum frequency, Apple Arm SoCs have a combination of high-performance and low-power cores.

Apple does not need to beat Intel and AMD in the datacenter on Geekbench results. They would want to strike an advantageous balance in performance-per-watt, the first and most important thing Johny Sroudji pointed on in his WWDC keynote segment. Apple can keep this advantage to themselves, just like keeping their Ax SoCs proprietary and not selling the parts to third parties.

I just went through the WINE architecture overview so I have a better idea as to how it works. I use Fidelity Active Trader Pro daily. I used to run it on my 2014 MacBook Pro but I run it off my 2008 Dell Studio XPS now. I also ran and now run TD Ameritrade Think or Swim with 80 real-time streaming charts. There is some overhead for Wine but there should be no problems porting it to macOS ARM and I don't see a performance penalty specific to ARM.

The professional traders that I know run ToS over ATP and ToS is written in Java. I know a couple of guys that run ToS on Mac Pros because they need the memory and CPU horsepower.

Wine doesn't run the x86 executable. The Windows developer compiles and links their Windows program natively on the target platform so it would run in macOS ARM in Apple's case. The Wine libraries implement the Windows API, also compiled natively. The performance penalty comes from their approach in implementing just the Windows API, doing the threading and time-slice stuff. It's actually pretty clever.

So Fidelity wouldn't have to rewrite ATP. They would just have to do a build (compile and link).

Does Apple sell servers? They used to sell X-Serve systems and they sell rack-mount Mac Pros. They had a server version of their OS - not sure if that's still kicking around.

The cloud server market is still growing rapidly so it would be a good revenue and profit opportunity. They've already spent the money making custom chips - they could just leverage it in the server market.

 

[Madhatter32]

So Fidelity wouldn't have to rewrite ATP. They would just have to do a build (compile and link).

I am hoping for a rewrite. I like Fidelity as a broker but ATP on MacOS is a dog. It's slow and unreliable. I was hoping for a rewrite so ATP can run native on ARM without the need for WINE. But if it's not to be, I'll go with ToS, which is a great trading platform and operates flawlessly on MacOS, or I'll just go with either on Windows.

 

[pshufd]

I am hoping for a rewrite. I like Fidelity as a broker but ATP on MacOS is a dog. It's slow and unreliable. I was hoping for a rewrite so ATP can run native on ARM without the need for WINE. But if it's not to be, I'll go with ToS, which is a great trading platform and operates flawlessly on MacOS, or I'll just go with either on Windows.

I used to use QuoteTracker which was written by Jerry Medved. It was a small Windows executable and used a few hundred K of RAM. Then Ameritrade bought him out and the program languished. He resurrected it as Medved Trader after ten years lockup and it was $700/year but I had problems getting it to work - it had VM leak issues. So I bit the bullet and learned how to use ToS. All of these things have a steep learning curve and nobody likes to change platforms. So I use Fidelity ATP for trading but I use ToS to watch my positions and the markets in general.

I do not expect Fidelity to get serious about their platform - certainly not to the level of Ameritrade - they have different kinds of customers. I have never run into traders that wanted to move from ToS to ATP.

 

[Erehy Dobon]

I wouldn't call the rack mountable Mac Pro a server in the contemporary interpretation. It's rack mountable because video production studios use industry standard 19" racks just like they did 25 years ago when those were populated by Tektronix waveform monitors, vectorscopes and Abekas DDRs.

This is one of the atrocious design failures of the cMP. What was rattling around in Sir Jony's head didn't match up with real world needs.

Like Madhatter32 said Fidelity ATP is an absolute dog on macOS. The technical explanation of its current macOS state is irrelevant to the Fidelity end user. Like I said, my ghetto $170 Wintel PC runs it at least as well as my better appointed Mac mini 2018. If I buy a $1700 Apple Silicon Mac mini and ATP runs the same way, it's still an abject failure regardless of the tech behind it. Some technologists can't see the forest for the trees.

Hell, I have a Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box 550 with a Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580. That's another $450 in hardware that doesn't really give me that much more performance to my Mac mini 2018 for running Fidelity ATP.

That's like $2100-2200 in Mac hardware whereas my weakling $740 Acer Swift 3 notebook can run Fidelity ATP like a champ.

I don't really need to know the technical aspects of Fidelity ATP runtime execution. I can just look at my computer hardware expenditures and know that I need to spend 8-10x more on Intel Mac hardware than Wintel PC hardware for the same general user experience with ATP.

Hell, I'd be far more impressed if I could run Fidelity ATP on my $99 Canakit Raspberry Pi 4 than whatever upcoming Apple Silicon Mac. Or run ATP on a $300 iPad and project the display to whatever video device handy (like my geriatric 1080p Toshiba TV).