Anyone loaded up Roon Core on a new MacMini M1 - How does it work?

[Drew_Wilson]

I am curious how Roon Core runs on the new MacMini M1 with 8 Gig of Ram. Should I be buying a 16 Gig M1 or getting the 2020 Intel based MacMini?

First machines have arrived so I am figuring a few lucky Roon customers can answer this question.

Tx Drew

[killdozer (Brutalise me with music)]

I have no idea about compatibility but am interested in the new Mac hardware. That said am going to follow my usual advice and not buy the first generation of anything Apple. I suspect that M1 will be a success but it might be worth sitting the first wave or hardware out and let other people test it.

To be clear, I’d be interested in running a Linux distro on the Mac hardware and will have to wait for sure.

[dylan (Dylan Caudill)]

Is Roon compatible with new Mac with M1 chip?

We’ve been testing Roon with the new M1 Mac hardware and we are happy to say that everything is working quite well! Our tests have shown that even accelerated DSP and other resource intensive functionality are performing great. We don’t have an M1 optimized version of Roon available just yet, but this is something we are looking into for the future. In the meantime, the current version of Roon will perform excellently on Apple’s M1 hardware. We are confident that things will work well, but if …