Stefan Wyeth is obviously throwing some serious BS here. This deserves a rewrite, or to be taken down. This is, hands down, the most sloppy and biased article on the Mac Studio I’ve seen anywhere.
#Charles mac m1 pro
“Doesn’t meet pro specifications?” What planet are you living on? The Mac Studio can connect to any modern audio interface, including by PCIe, as mentioned earlier. Connectivity options out of date? Are you aware of any other OEM using Thunderbolt 4? It’s as cutting edge as it comes at present. And those who do have abundant options for external thunderbolt enclosures for PCI cards.ĥ. The majority of studios (of any size) don’t have a need for PCI expansion. Limitations on RAM and SSD size? 128GB and 8TB is too limited? Those upgrades are hella expensive, no doubt, but does anybody in pro audio need that much RAM? Also, I have too many samples and they only take up 5TB.Ĥ. Pro audio professionals have little interest in GPU comparisons.ģ. Single core performance is effectively identical for all M1 variants, so for tracking with native plugins, it has no special advantage.Ģ. The answer is… 20 cores is overkill for most, except those who rely heavily on virtual instruments. Nowhere do you really address the question in the title, the M1 Ultra chip’s specific suitability for pro audio work. So many are likely to wait for the new Mac Pro.ġ. Without upgradability, it simply isn’t a sustainable and future-proof tool.
#Charles mac m1 upgrade
For professional studios looking to upgrade to an Apple silicon workstation, the Mac Studio just isn’t what we’ve been waiting for. Like so much tech aimed at the content creation market, it offers Swiss-Army knife solutions to a very impressionable audience.
Once you take a look at the reviews and benchmarks, you’re faced with the truth. The initial hype wave of the Mac Studio washed over us all, with impressive promises of performance. Does the Mac Studio make sense for home producers?
#Charles mac m1 software
Meanwhile, the built-in webcam is also subpar in the quality department, but at least Apple has promised to fix this with a software update. On top of that, the selection of stands is factory configured and cannot be altered after the fact – which sucks, frankly. The six-speaker system did not give you a particularly accurate image of Apple’s Spatial Audio format. Apart from the astronomical price tag, there were several aspects that simply didn’t cut it. The new Studio Display received mostly mixed reviews, while some were unconvinced, to say the least.
The limitation on RAM and SSD size is also rather underwhelming. Everything is installed firmly onto the board, which is a steady move away from the Mac Pro into the consumer realm. To make matters worse, there is a distinct lack of the upgradability and modularity that we are used to. As it turns out, the first benchmarks have discovered this is not comparable and a discrete GPU is still far more powerful. At Apple’s Peek Performance event, the Mac Studio’s GPU was compared to Nvidia’s flagship RTX 3090. There are however a few things that annoy us slightly. When compared to an equivalent desktop PC, energy savings were around a thousand kilowatt-hours per year! M1 Ultra Mac Studio: How Ultra is it? In addition, Spender found the energy efficiency of the Mac Studio to be considerable. Opening pro apps like DAW systems or calling up your projects happens almost instantly. The close to silent fan system means you can position microphones close by, without the risk of noise on recordings. With the capability to export 30 GB of 4K ProRes video in only 24 seconds, it’s not surprising. Finally, the research efforts to bring memory forensics to the M1 will be discussed, along with new artifacts from Rosetta 2 that can be analyzed as a result of these research efforts.The Mac Studio has also made a good impression on YouTubers like Mary Spender. Afterwards, memory forensics will be performed on select samples to confirm functionality. In this paper, malware will be executed through the Rosetta 2 translation environment in an effort to document the functionality of malware run through it. As a result, all malware compiled for Intel Macs is theoretically functional on M1 machines. To make matters worse, Apple has developed Rosetta 2, the translation layer for running x86_64 binaries on an M1 Mac. Memory analysis capabilities have lagged behind on Apple's new M1 architecture while the number of malicious programs only grows. Memory forensics allows for the recovery of historical data created by running malware, including information that it tries to hide. These techniques evade traditional forensic analysis, requiring the use of memory forensics. As malware continues to evolve, infection mechanisms that can only be seen in memory are increasingly commonplace.