Been using Linux for the last 2 years as my main driver, before that was always on Windows. I switched to Linux for minor coding and privacy concerns with Windows. However, the only software that I wasn't able to find a good alternative for in Linux is CaptureOne which I use for photo editing.

The work around I've been using is running CaptureOne in a Windows VM machine... but it's janky and a terrible usage of my computers resources. The VM takes a fixed amount of RAM so I often run into issues where the VM crashes, or, linux crashes because they can't manage RAM resources together. I upgraded to 32GB of Ram to try and solve this, but, it's been a no-go. The VM also can't utilize the GPU so, that's been an annoyance.

Current computer: i5-126000k RTX 3060TI 8GB 32GB RAM Ubuntu

Wanted to see if anyone here uses CaptureOne on a MacMiniM4 16GB RAM and can comment on it's performance for both editing and batch processing. My big concern is RAM, and if 16GB is enough. Seems like Apple is more efficient with RAM though?

High usage would generally have a browser with up to 10 tabs, maybe a video playing on my second screen, and then CaptureOne Full screen.

Think the M4 16GB would be enough? Budget is tight.

Hello! I'm trying to figure out what kind of chipset/shared RAM would best suit a given scenario. There are two graphic-intensive things I use my current setup for (late 2019 i9 32GB MBP), and both seriously drive the Activity and CPU/GPU nuts slowing everything down to molasses.

1. I regularly need to use three screens for work. The built-in retina display, an external monitor, and a 65" Promethean board (a Promethean board is similar to a SmartBoard). All three need different information on them. Currently, I need to downsize the resolution on the external monitor to avoid lag/freezing.

2. I do a fair amount of video editing using Final Cut Pro. I'm not importing 4K video, but I do regularly need to combine several 3-5GB video files into several multi-cam clips. The background tasks often slow the process down. While scrolling the timeline view to insert titles the audio track preview (waveform) doesn't render for several minutes.

My questions are how to avoid this on a future laptop. Would the extra GPU cores on the M2 chips do a better job with these tasks or is this a CPU issue? Would there be a noticeable difference between the Pro and Max chips and/or 32GB versus 64GB? Ideally, I would like to be running both Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro at the same time.

Thanks in advance for any replies. The new shared RAM has me scratching my head.

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