Whoa, whoa, whoa. Be sure to wear eye protection before the fun begins.
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I saw a benchmark comparison and the result was that an M1 Mac was on par with a mid range gaming PC, assuming that the games had a native Macos port.
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It’s well equipped for gaming & Apple has their own 3d API called Metal although currently it isn’t very well embraced by the gaming industry. Resident Evil Village was released as a showcase a couple of months ago & it looks great.
I do have a few steam MAC intel games that play ok, they should work ok if 64-bit. You can also use crossover which is an implementation of wine to emulate windows software, though it’s hit & miss and not free.
At this point I’d say if gaming is important you aren’t going to see industry wide support on the scale of a PC but there are still some games released. I tried running the Forest through crossover & it works at a low resolution but isn’t very playable, so that’s definitely much better on PC although it is a resource intensive game.
This YouTube channel is good to follow for news on M1 gaming related stuff:
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Mine for a MacBook with a track pad.
Settings\accesibility\mouse(or similar)\
Enable:
Three finger click and drag
I hate every other trackpad after this.
You can use three fingers brushing on the trackpad to move knobs or sliders (or anything) and you don’t have to click down on the pad physically.
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Here it is on Monterey / 12.6.
I already love the Magic Trackpad, and bought the new black one because it looks cool. I’ve only had it enabled for a few second and I already love three finger drag.
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When’s the next miserable git thread?
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You’ll never go back. You’ll also offer it as a suggestion on anyone else’s MacBook you touch that doesn’t have it active already.
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Too late, it isn’t smart enough to co-exist with three finger swipe to move among virtual desktops, so I think I’ll switch back. 
I miss fvwm.
Giving drag-lock a try, again.
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Like a lot of people have already said, Buy that shit!
Ableton is incredible and having it on a laptop is super fun. All of the built in instruments and effects are top notch you really can’t go wrong with Ableton and a laptop.
Being into hardware doesn’t mean that you have to drink the kool-aid and be hardware only
And this is coming from a guy with a room full of hardware synths and drum machines. Software instruments don’t really get me terribly excited with a very few exceptions (Ableton being one of them) but it gets the job done quite well and can go much further in some aspects than a lot of hardware.
I work with 90% hardware but that 10% software is absolutely crucial essentially when it comes to mixing.
All said and done I often just take my laptop somewhere with no hardware and just fuck around with Ableton it never gets old
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Can’t that be a 4 finger swipe or something?
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After turning off 3-drag, I was surprised to find that expose and moving among virtual desktops is now a four-finger gesture. Back to 3-drag.
I get why Apple does this, and why first-class fine customization will never be a thing, but I still miss unix dotfiles.
Indeed.
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I used to but the GPU was woefully inadequate for most games. Now that was years ago and the new M1 may have a dedicated GPU for gaming but I have a gaming pc dedicated for that task now and use my new MacBook Pro just for music and production.
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not sure if this helps but
This is on 10.13.6 (…yes, I’m one of those)
I set up Ubuntu on a high-powered Dell laptop recently, and the way the trackpad produces a “swipe up rapidly” gesture as I’m pulling my fingers off of it is really such a waste.
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seven finger swipe 
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I draw the line at a 12 finger swipe 
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Yeah, I wasn’t really expecting it to be feasible.
Tbh, I’m probably better off sticking with my PC for another year or two and only upgrading once I’ve put a serious dent in my Steam library and looking for something new to play.
Which leaves the question of is it worth grabbing an MBA solely for working on music? For me probably not.
I think I’ve saved myself some money on both fronts.
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What about a toe flick?
Actually an underdesk foot stand that’s a nice cool slab of glass/aluminium to rest your bare feet on and use as a controller could be pretty nice.
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I’d give it a go
depends if you need to use Logic X as your DAW or not. I used Presonus Studio One for a while on my gaming PC since I had a free license for it and it is easy to use. But after trying Logic X on Mac, prefer that as my main DAW and had to upgrade to new Mac for it.
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