Very good laptop, BUT...
First of all, thank you to LDLC. The product was very well packaged and received in the DROM in very good condition.
I'm very pleased with this product and it's very good, it's very good. I'm very pleased with the quality of the product and the service. I'm very pleased with the quality of the product and the service.
I'm not sure what to say about the laptop itself, but if you're in the music business like I am, WAIT and definitely DON'T buy it. Unless you need a Mac right away and can't wait (or if you like to hurt yourself). There are 26 pages on the Apple forums of users all complaining about the same thing and everywhere else on the net. Not ready for music production.
Indeed, most of the plugins are not at all optimized for the Apple chip and it's a big disappointment at this level: high CPU resources, clicks and audio pops... in short, it's a mess (and yet these plugins are certified M1 native). Developers are not at all up to speed on this new CPU architecture.
Moreover, you will still have to install Rosetta 2. Yes, our dear developers offer native M1 plugins but the installer is not yet compiled for M1 so if you don't install Rosetta, you can't install the native plugin either. Great job by the developers....
And for plugins that are not yet ready for the Apple chip (there are tons of them), you'll have to go through Rosetta 2 as well + launch your DAW (Logic Pro or other) in Rosetta mode as well, so emulated.
I don't know about you, but personally I regret this purchase and I should have kept my 27 inch Intel iMac from 2020 which was the top of the range model and I never had any problems with any audio plugins.
