[ANSWERED] Experience with Izzy and Apple M3?

jerkson

Hey all... I've been away from the forum for a spell so apologies if I've missed info on this one... It's long past due for a machine upgrade and I'm thinking about the new MacBook Pros with the M3 processor. Any thoughts on these re: Isadora?

thanks!

Brian

JJHP3

Using an "ancient" M1 MBP here; great computer, no problems and it is, what's the techie word, very snappy?!

John

Armando

@jerksonn I have a M1 max and Isadora just screams... of joy

fubbi

@jerkson isadora loves the m2 ultra so far

bonemap

@fubbi

I have to concur, the M2 Ultra and the Mac Studio offer a great Isadora experience. The Mac Studio with M2 Ultra has a lot of advantages for media artists. It fits neatly into a compartment of my camera backpack and I can use a portable screen to operate in the field. Huge advantage to natively attach 6 - 8 display outputs. Said to be equivalent to the new M3 max in terms of chip capability.

Best wishes

Russell

jerkson

Thanks for the feedback everyone... I assume I should have no concerns regarding the M3... sounds like the new Macs are rocking!

best

B

davidcoll

@jerkson just tried to get isadora running on an m3 and I guess b/c its Sonoma v14.1 i'm prompted to run rosetta. Unless I'm missing something, that means I'll have to wait for a new Isadora version to run on this OS if I wanna skip Rosetta.

bonemap

@davidcoll

You should submit a support ticket for this.

https://support.troikatronix.com/support/tickets/new

Best wishes

Russell

Woland

@davidcoll said:

just tried to get isadora running on an m3 and I guess b/c its Sonoma v14.1 i'm prompted to run rosetta. Unless I'm missing something, that means I'll have to wait for a new Isadora version to run on this OS if I wanna skip Rosetta.

I saw this before recently, but you don't need Rosetta at all (so long as you're not planning to use the OpenNI plugins). The dialog is just Apple being weird.

jerkson

@davidcoll thanks for the heads up.... Please let us know if you get it going as per @Woland's recommendation...

davidcoll

@bonemap thanks for pointing that out-- just submitted the ticket.

Woland

@jerkson

I worked on a show in October with an M2 Mac Studio where we used Isadora and the same dialog came up at some point. I can’t remember if we just installed Rosetta because Apple demanded we do so for some reason (though we never used or needed Rosetta for Isadora) or if we were able to just tell that warning dialog to go away and shut up, but either way, the warning/dialog is a complete red herring. If you can’t make it go away without installing Rosetta, just install Rosetta to make Apple’s dialog shut up, do nothing with Rosetta at all after it’s installed (because you won’t need to), and then continue on your merry way.