I’ll ask this question on the Merging forum as well, but thought I’d start a thread here.

I have to upgrade my MacBook Pro soon (mine is from 2013), and although I have a dedicated Thinkpad for Pyramix, I thought I’d get a 16” MacBook this time and set it up for PMX under bootcamp as a backup.

All the discussion now seems to indicate that bootcamp will no longer be possible on the new Apple chips for obvious reasons. It seems that most users that require this kind of functionality will use virtualization software. That will work fine for many apps, but not likely to work for DAWs.

Based on what I’m reading, it seems like PMX will no longer work on the MacBook Pro, once they switch to the new Apple chips, and that if you want bootcamp functionality, you’d better go with the last of the 16” MacBook Pros. The downside is that I doubt that any Intel MacBook is going to have the same 7 year+ lifespan that I’ve gotten out of my current machine because in the next few years everything will be moving to the new chips, and support for the old Intel-based architecture will wane.

Anyone else have thoughts on this?

Apple is going to hose you on hardware via their changing OS gambit sooner or later, and possibly, now that they will control all the hardware of the computers, even more often than they have in the past. You buy into the ongoing hose when you buy into Apple gear. This is not new.

Can you be a little more specific? Are you saying that the Intel architecture prevented Apple from changing things in non-standard ways (or at least as often), and that we could start seeing proprietary hardware that leverages the capabilities of their new silicon, but that is wholly incompatible with everything else?

I have no idea, I don't design computers. I have, however, been frequently hosed by Apple upgrades to their OS that leave not-very-old but very functional computers behind, along with the apps that have been tweaked to use the newer OS. So let's say I'm not super-long on trust in Apple to do other than find new ways to force me to change out expensive hardware for no reason that they decided it was time for that to happen. That situation is part of what you are buying into if you run a business etc on Apple gear.

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