There are many reason your computer can get hot and throttle but anyway your intel 4 core is not indication about anything apple silicon.

They wrote “studio computers” musician buy not “musicians computers” so they get away with that i think.

too bad we cannot address the gpu cores for additional cpu processing for plugins

Hi ! I have a MacBook Pro ? 2016 with 16GB ram with i7 8 cores multithreaded. So it should be ok … but not . I m obliged to use a 3rd party software that disable the CPU throttling…

Sounds like total BS honestly. Most musicians I’ve known just use whatever they can afford and it’s generally not a mac. I’d put the average cost of musicians computer around 700-1000, not even close to the 2k they are claiming.

I use a lot of sample libraries, kontakt, labs, etc… and only have 8gb of ram on my computers. It has basically never been a limitation for me regardless of project complexity.

People need to get over the idea that their tools are preventing them from doing something.

Spec up in the first place and you will get a nice long life out of your Mac. Cry once, buy once.

Space skeleton is correct. Apple’s system-in-package design trades off memory expandability for higher performance: high bandwidth, low latency, and unified memory architecture to reduce copying between CPU/GPU/neural engine.

Regarding storage, you can plug in additional NVMe storage via Thunderbolt, though Thunderbolt 4 is 40 Gbit/s (like Thunderbolt 3) so it will max out near 5 GB/s rather than the 7.4GB/s of the internal storage.

That’s ignorant, lets climb the treeeee!

It doesn’t.

Funny reading this while taking a break from my MASSIVE rack running in VCV 2 with VCV host running multiple VST’s. If you replaced “all” with “low performance”, I might agree but then I was running VCV Rack on a 2015 macbook with 8GB of ran and never ran into issues either so…… What mac you got?

haha.. thats pretty funny. The answer is a simple one though.. “muscle”. The most “notable” use of steroids is to put on massive muscle. A bowl of arugula and a fruit smoothie not so much.

The way their new ARM processors use ram is much more integrated than just jamming in some old SIMM or DIMM modules. NVMe drives are much much faster than cheap spinny drives with huge capacity.

I’m not going to argue that it’s some sort of best value, which Apple never is, but just to brush it off as overpriced is being ignorant.