[Will Russell]

I don't do any video editing or much VI work so I'm inclined to go for the M1 Pro rather than the M1 Max. It seems that the M1Max is all about the GPU and honestly even though I have a 2009 core cheese grater (HDX) as my main production machine all of my sessions run just fine on a 2015 quad core 27" iMac.

I'm leaning toward a 16" M1Pro 2TB SSD, 32G RAM.

HDMI/or TB4 for an external monitor, MagSafe for power, leaving 2 TB4 ports for external drives/interfaces or just get a OWC TB hub.

The bummer is that everything related to Pro Tools will be running on Rosetta for quite a while until everyone comes on board with the appropriate code to run native. My guess is that this is a pretty big job for most folks so it might be a little bit of a wait.