In my eye I shall believe what Jim has posted. He hasn't steered us wrong in how many years! Really @Hugh Mann you need to do your homework. Jim has been part of this community since the Cakewalk early days. He tells it like it is and is very detail oriented. He doesn't care about the CPU manufacturer inside the machines he sells. If AMD is better then Intel he will use AMD. Intel was kicking butt until AMD new 5000's series of chips for low latency audio came out. Now about the Apple M1 chips, they are very nice mobile chips but they are not and I repeat the M1 are not Intel and AMD killers. Heck the new AMD Ryzen 5700U, 5800U mobile processor would be better for most of us for a laptop build. Plus Cakewalk by Bandlab would work on it.
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