I don’t think you understood my point; so I will rephrase it:
The performance enhancement coming from the M1, when compared with previous architectures, is such that ANY other equipment or computer used as a Roon core will pale in comparison, thus rendering the relative 30% boost all but irrelevant.
And I am just talking about the first generation of Mac notebooks with that SoC; when desktops come the gap will be even wider.
So what happens if I use a core 50% more powerful than any Apple M1 based computer?
Does the performance of the M1 become irrelevant?
You only need a certain amount of power to move these bytes about.
No; I mean such a performance advantage is not relevant enough to justify buying a (rather expensive) dedicated equipment just to operate Roon. Obviously you may still wish to buy it for other reasons (such as storing all your music in that equipment, not worrying about carrying your Roon core around, etc.). But performance WON’T be it.
Sound good I’ll look forward to installing it, maybe you need some nice retired men to do some customer acceptance testing? We have loads of time in the locked down GB winter…
Sorry I read it the other way
Which do you have? I’m still using a 2020 Air and look forward to trading for an M1 but I only use it for light general work and photo library, can’t really find an excess to upgrade at this point.
Do Roon developers and support staff want to be able to enjoy a peaceful Christmas and new year break with their families? I personally hate December deadlines.
Roon doesn’t provide target dates for releases. It will be released when it is ready. Past major releases have occurred both before and after Christmas.