I know it sounds funny, but that's the premise here. Also we cannot buy a used computer because of VAT rules in our country, so buying an older Macbook Pro 16 as advices is unfortunately not an option either. (Well we do but then 900 euros would have to be payed in taxes). The window for buying will be lost if we would buy the next gen M1 in half a year. We have to buy a new computer before this financial year ends because of tax reasons. I'll just clear one thing up, that might have been unclear in my first post Thanks for all the answers and info guys, OR wait at least half year for more capable Apple Silicon Macs (by that time Adobe should have complete M1-tested suite of CC Apps) Maybe leaving Adobe and moving onto something like Affinity + Blackmagic DaVinci might be better option in the long run?Īnd on top of that, especially After Effects requires more than current M1 Macs can provide in terms of specs and performance,Īs I see it right now, your friend should either buy used older MacBook Pro 16 which can run Catalina where most apps are proven to work (given the fact people will jump onto M1, those older machines might drop in prices pretty fast), Your friend has enough money for new Mac but not for software? interesting.

This is actually an important and tricky topic,Īs of today, majority of Adobe apps are not provided as native M1 versions,Īs of today, Adobe support for Big Sur is kinda clunky,Īs of today, most new Macs are sold with Big Sur preinstalled, without ability to downgrade,Īs of today, Apple Silicon Macs are entry-level Macs limited by overpriced insufficient 16GB memory and only 4 high-performance cores (being weaker in real use than 5-year old 6-core Intel i7 for ex.) So should we get the new M1 chip or current intel? What do you guys think?

If it is likely then the M1 is probably the way to go. We'd like to know the likelihood of there being cracked Adobe apps native to M1 chips in the future. Is it possible to activate current or semi-current Adobe apps written for intel on the current intel macs running Big Sur?Īlso can anyone guess if future M1 native versions of adobe apps will be as easy to activate for the Zii team or is there any risk that the native m1 versions of adobe apps will be protected in a different way and harder to crack? Or is the risk mainly with apple OS versions becoming more restricted, perhaps locked to app store etc. Is it possible to activate current or semi-current Adobe apps written for intel on the new M1 mac via Rosetta2 running Big Sur?Ģ. My friend cannot afford renting these apps so activation with Zii is an absolute necessity!ġ. He will buy it for use with mainly these Adobe CC apps

This new mac will most likely come preinstalled with Big Sur no matter what processor we go with, M1 or intel.

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