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Originally Posted by Mike Thornton
My advice would be to wait until the M1 Max version of the Mac mini comes out. At Production Expert, we have been running some tests on an M1 Max powered MacBook Pro with 64GB of unified memory and frankly, it is amazing.
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I'm sure that machine is amazing, but I'm afraid it's a software problem. My standard sessions with dnxhd36 video are certainly not snappy on the Mini M1 16GB with Big Sur and PT 2021.10.0
In activity window there is always enough headroom for CPU, GPU and memory, o that's no problem.
The same session is running much more fluently on my Mac Pro 10core trashcan with High Sierra and PT 2020.12.
Upgrading to 2021.3, then 2021.6 and after that 2021.10 downgraded my system to being more "laggy".
After installing Catalina on the trashcan it was still lagging with PT 2021.10.
This with massive amounts of headroom for the GPU (just a few percent) and CPU. Also more than enough RAM headroom.
I tried downgrading PT to 2021.3. It was better, but not much.
Then I downgraded to 2020.12 and it was better then 2021.3, but not as good as with High Sierra.
So, in my test, the older machine worked best with the older OS and the older Pro Tools version for the exact same session.