Sometimes I just need to tweak a material or update some textures and for that, MacOS Big Sur is more than sufficient. Apple Mac Mini M1 – Day 2Īlthough the new Apple Mac Mini M1 doesn’t have a dedicated graphics processor, Blender runs amazingly well on it. I will update once I install more software. What’s next? Arm processors are new to me so I will have to watch some YouTube videos to learn what others do and adapt the good parts into my workflow. I will have to do some more testing tomorrow but if nothing changes, then my new Mac Mini M1 became just more valuable than I imagined. YouTube is amazing! I just installed P圜harm Community Edition which seems to work perfectly fine. VS Code is great but I don’t need two text editors.ĭisadvantage: Python 3 programing is best done on Linux. I’ve also installed Microsoft Visual Studio Code briefly but removed it again. It would have been nice to use the new Mac Mini for some Python scripting but the more I looked into it, the more I was convinced that Linux is way more suitable for programing then the Apple platform. I will play with it some more over the next few days and if it all pans out, then Reaper will be my main DAW running on MacOS Big Sur.Īdvantage: On a 4K 32″ monitor, the Reaper UI text is amazingly easy to read. I just found an arm64 version of Reaper, installed it and it seems OK. Over the next week or so, I will make some test recordings and if GarageBand does the job, then I’ll keep it as my main DAW. I prefer to use the sounds of my amazing Yamaha Genos arranger keyboard. The very first program that I installed was GarageBand but not the instruments and loops.

Because of that, I was willing to add another Apple device to my setup as long as it’s not an iMac.

Although it is a late 2009 iMac, it runs Catalina amazingly well. If you glimpsed over some of my other blog posts, then you know that I’ve recently “upgraded” my late 2009 iMac. I bought my second Mac computer on Saturday, November 28.

Gimp for mac big sur