![]() ![]() However, for people who want a productivity machine, the fact that the Mac mini no longer supports eGPUs will be a major disappointment. In many ways it continues to offer what we love so much about the Mac mini: it has a compact, attractive design, with some great components inside, and the ability to run legacy Intel apps, along with M1 apps and iOS apps, is genuinely exciting. ![]() It’s great to see Apple embracing its quirky little PC, and using it as a showcase for its M1 hardware in a desktop PC. Overall, the Mac mini (M1, 2020) is an impressive bit of kit, with Apple’s latest hardware and software taking center stage. This will disappoint anyone who needed to upgrade their Mac mini. However, we should note that the move to the M1 chip means the memory is capped at 16GB, and you can no longer use external graphic cards (eGPUs). ![]() This tiny little PC feels fast and responsive, and it was able to punch above its weight when it came to intensive video rendering tasks. Even though the M1 chip that powers the Mac mini is Apple's first chip for a desktop PC, it's really knocked it out of the park. I understand it is said 'non-compatible' by Reason Studios, because there are some drawbacks - but in fact, it's not too bad.And, it really has got a performance boost. (in my test, there were 2 DIVA synths, one in 'best' and another in 'divine' and some 3 other 'lighter' VSTs FX + 7 Europa RE synth, each (and Divas) playing 5 notes generated by Chords and Arpeggio players (intruments patches with some sustain - just to obtain somehow musical though heavy) + 14 RE fx (Sweeper and Quartet x7) + 1rhytmic and Beatmap before reaching 'audible' limit (drop outs) - 44.1Khz - internal coreaudio - 512.) Had some troubles with other buffer size (bigger or smaller). And Rosetta 2 is an impressive translation layer! All in all, it's finally impressive it just works IMHO. When I disable multicore support, it looks like it works better (and however 4 Cores of M1 are used), but I can't obtain same performance than running Reason on my quad core Intel Mac Book Pro 2018 13" (when multicore enabled). But in terms of performance my results are mixed, as there are drop outs in the audio stream when multicore is enabled in Reason. I Tested Reason 11 on the new Mac Book Air M1 of my daughter - 'entry' model - (for few hours this weekend) and it works. CodeMeter (Reason's offline copy-protection scheme) uses what's known as a kernel extension in MacOS, which is one of the types of software Rosetta2 doesn't support. Per the above link, Reason can only be run in online mode on an M1. It was still perfectly usable, just not on par with some of the other M1 benchmarks out there.īasically, you can use Reason on an M1 without issue right now, but you may not be blown away by the performance until Reason Studios releases an ARM-native version. Various factors can make translated performance slower, though, and in the same thread, an M1 user ran one of those Reason benchmark song files and it didn't perform quite as well. In ideal conditions, Rosetta-translated apps can run at 80% native speed, so some Intel-based apps actually run faster on an M1 than on many Intel chips. It works seamlessly for most, software, although there are a few exceptions. When you launch Reason (or any other Mac app compiled for Intel), there's a behind-the-scenes translation to Apple Silicon using a system called Rosetta2. There's a thread I can't find at the moment, but another user reported that Reason 11 runs fine on an M1.
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