Look, if you NEVER bought a computer because sometime down the road there’d be some software it can’t run, you’d never have bought a computer!

Take the absolute fastest, most expensive computer currently available… your argument is equally valid for THAT! Sooner or later, someone is going to come up with something it can’t run. So don’t get that either… wait a while. Rinse and repeat.

In the meantime, everybody that bought a computer that worked well NOW got all the work, made all the music, made all the videos, and you’re sitting in an empty room going ‘maybe it won’t run next year’s programs’.

What I look for in tech is a generational move forward, not an incremental one. I’ve done it with arrangers, with software, with everything I can. The M4 Mini is generational. It outperforms previous TOTL models from only two or three years ago, at close to a tenth of the price. The M2 and M3’s were incremental models. Performance jumps of 10-20%. M4 is benchmarking at 50-80% increase at creative tasks (audio track counts, render speeds for 3D, compiling code etc). Apple generally has two or three models before the next big jump. And usually introduced the big jump on their TOTL high dollar computers first.

This is the first time for over a decade that the leap forward got introduced in its BOTL range first. Now’s the time, especially with Trump’s threatened trade war with everywhere that makes the stuff we use! That $500 M4 might be $650 next year… 🤬
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An arranger is just a tool. What matters is what you build with it..!