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How's your M1 Pro holding up in 2024?
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14” 16GB/1TB MBP here.
It has held up surprisingly well. Perhaps even improved a bit with age…
I’m running Cubase and a lot of virtual instruments and plugins making electronic music.
When I first got it, Cubase ran under Rosetta. Now it’s native. Over a period of a few years 3rd party plugins gradually switch to AS native too, so the software I’m running is better suited to the M1 chip.
What’s really been holding me back from upgrading has been the following:-
1. The above mentioned switch to AS native software has improved efficiency.
2. Most music production software (including both Cubase and Logic) only use Performance cores and NOT Efficiency cores. The 8P2E 10 core M1 Pro is ideal for my use case as 8 of 10 cores are being used. In comparison the base model M3Pro only has 5P cores and the more expensive 12 core M3Pro only has 6P cores. The move to adding more E cores doesn’t suit my use case at all as my software cannot use them. To get more performance cores than I currently have I need the M3Max.
3. Cost increases. To get better Performance core numbers I’ll need to jump up to the Max chip which is prohibitively expensive.
So looks like I’ll be stuck on this for a few more generations, perhaps waiting to pickup a refurb M4/M5Max in a couple of years.
It has held up surprisingly well. Perhaps even improved a bit with age…
I’m running Cubase and a lot of virtual instruments and plugins making electronic music.
When I first got it, Cubase ran under Rosetta. Now it’s native. Over a period of a few years 3rd party plugins gradually switch to AS native too, so the software I’m running is better suited to the M1 chip.
What’s really been holding me back from upgrading has been the following:-
1. The above mentioned switch to AS native software has improved efficiency.
2. Most music production software (including both Cubase and Logic) only use Performance cores and NOT Efficiency cores. The 8P2E 10 core M1 Pro is ideal for my use case as 8 of 10 cores are being used. In comparison the base model M3Pro only has 5P cores and the more expensive 12 core M3Pro only has 6P cores. The move to adding more E cores doesn’t suit my use case at all as my software cannot use them. To get more performance cores than I currently have I need the M3Max.
3. Cost increases. To get better Performance core numbers I’ll need to jump up to the Max chip which is prohibitively expensive.
So looks like I’ll be stuck on this for a few more generations, perhaps waiting to pickup a refurb M4/M5Max in a couple of years.
