

Its a Hackintosh, same cpu as a 2014 iMac i7 4970k,Īnd as I'm not very savvy with all things Hackintosh I'm stuck with High Sierra

It was a local computer shop guy telling me yesterday about M1 Macs with fried ssd's because of memory swaps who brought this to my attention. What's your workload? How much RAM do you use now? etc. I can think of no, good reason to wait for a 32GB RAM system. SSD has had 16.3 TB written - if the drive is good for 800TB then I have about 17 years left on the drive -) I don't "do Chrome" for any significant anything. My M1 (16GB/1TB MacBook Air) basically doesn't swap. I wasted too much of my time watching the video. I really, seriously do not recommend trying to desolder and replace chips on these boards. but, for media production you kinda need to pay apple what they demand and just accept the eye-watering markup.

All look far more convincing in their higher specs than in their lower specs. If you could do with a new display, keyboard and mouse, the iMac is good. If you peripherals are all good, the Mini makes sense. If you need to buy now, and you're committed to the Apple ecosystem, I certainly wouldn't buy an Intel Mac, so the 4 M1 machines are your only choices realistically. there are no signs of disappointment to be found, which is remarkable. Reviewers and testers are generally shocked by how powerful they are. If your current set-up is operating well and you can hold off to give yourself options, you might wait.īut, reviews and performance testing all seems to indicate that 16GB works surprisingly well even on heavy professional workloads. If you use huge sample libraries for movie soundtrack composition or something like that, you might wait.
