Over time, software has moved forward: it’s now sophisticated, comprehensive, and fully featured and it often feels like the Mac computer has struggled to keep pace.

We’ve been hearing the debate rage on for some months now: should we wait, or should we buy the new 2020 iMac? Which is, unusually for Apple, a very good spec for the money, and you can upgrade the memory yourself to 64Gb for under £300 likewise, external SSDs for a fraction of the cost of an Apple upgrade.Īnd let’s be honest here, unless you’re professionally writing and recording film scores with a full orchestra, a Mac Pro is simply a world away. What does Apple Silicon’s new M1 chip offer, how does it perform against the entry models it replaces, and more importantly, is it suitable for music production?