Pro Tools has improved a lot over the last 2 years, but...

[cmbourget]

Originally Posted by resonatee

These are all native rigs. No HD cards inside. A mac mini M1 is overloaded while the same session ~300 tracks plays back with 30-40% cpu usage on a cMP. The same amount of memory.

Um... excuse me, what's a cMP?

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by cmbourget

Um... excuse me, what's a cMP?

Cheesegrater Mac Pro

[LDS]

Originally Posted by resonatee

These are all native rigs. No HD cards inside. A mac mini M1 is overloaded while the same session ~300 tracks plays back with 30-40% cpu usage on a cMP. The same amount of memory.

vvvv

Originally Posted by JFreak

Mini M1 is much much more powerful than my 2009 Nehalem Mac Pro with HD3 cards. Even though the Mini only has 16GB memory vs. 48GB in the cheese grater. Everything is snappier...

[resonatee]

Actually looking closer at this german guy test its very weird. He disabled all the plugins in the session because he was having a problem with a pro tools on a M1 mini install

[Darryl Ramm]

In that SMM video I would be curious if all the CPUs were warmed up before the test or not. Did anybody catch how much RAM was in the Mac mini? I wish the video had caption/foreign language captions enabled, i can make out some stuff, but not all.

---

Following up on what LDS said earlier... many Macs are pretty much laptop thermal designs stuffed into other package. And performance can be significantly dominated by thermal throttling, even potentially with Apple Silicon and its very impressive power/performance. It may be useful to report CPU temps when making comparisons between these systems.

[Emcha_audio]

Originally Posted by CygnusX-1Bk2

Just another of a myriad of reasons to avoid Windows. It is one of the reasons I have stopped using Windows. Just one. My career has been mostly in games and post. For the longest time I have had to use both platforms; game dev and admin on Windows, production on a Mac. Once much of the former Windows only tools had become available for Mac (including MS Office) I realized I hadn't booted up my personal Windows machine (that I built btw) for over a year so I ditched that machine altogether and haven't looked back. Windows OS have been clunky forever but everything since XP has gotten worse and only seem to try to emulate Mac OS on the surface because they build on their existing tech instead of from a clean slate. I mean, the main drive is still labeled as "C" because A and B were reserved for floppy drives. WTF? Who even uses floppy drives anymore? No one, that's who. You can't even buy any machine with an optical drive anymore... (yet some people still work at 44.1kHz too). Mac OS is so much more fluid. All of my drives have unique names and thumbnail images to indicate their content and function, not bound to an archaic generic lettering naming convention from over 30 years ago. Closest thing to a Windows machine I run now is my Xbox Series X which is awesome for gaming. It doesn't feel near as cheap as a PC.

You do kniw that you always had the ability to rename a drive on windows?... just saying

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000532.htm

[cmbourget]

Originally Posted by JFreak

Cheesegrater Mac Pro

Thanks.