Our beloved @fin25 (who is unfortunately not on the forum anymore ) eventually bought a Macbook Air M1 for music making purposes, see the whole thread here:
TLDR; A Macbook Air M1 is perfectly capable for music production. The M1 CPU is roughly 3 to 4 times faster as the ARM Quad Core processor of an MPC. You’ll have much more memory, better bus performance, faster storage, etc.
So depending on how heavily VST/AU you are planning to make music with I’d say you have to try really hard to find the limits of the M1.
) eventually bought a Macbook Air M1 for music making purposes, see the whole thread here: