Does MaxMSP run on the Mac Studio M1 Ultra

Max8 will run native, but you may have to run it under Rosetta depending on 3rd party externals. The M1 Ultra might be overkill; I've been using an M1 Max vanilla for a year now with some heavy patches, and never even heard the ventilator.

Thanks, Florian1947. The advice about the M1 Max vs Ultra is also good to hear.

I was reading that the Mac Mini M2 Pro compares well with the Mac Studio M1 Max (between vanilla and Ultra) for less $$, although the Studio offers a better selection of ports and a higher possible amount of RAM.

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/mac-mini-vs-mac-studio/

I got a Mac Mini M2 Pro and love it. I haven't really been stressing the extra "performance" cores yet, but the extra ports have been handy. Also, IIRC the single-core performance on M2 is something like 15-20% faster than M1 (in any configuration), which can be especially beneficial for audio (M4L in Ableton). If you're doing GPU stuff your considerations may be different, though?

Hi, thanks, for the other two comments, Slo~|. and Tyler. All really good info to think about.

The Apple Silicon chips are great for Max. Even my plain old M1 Mini flies. If I were buying a machine now I would definitely get an M2 mini. It's small enough that bringing it around is easy, but the performance per dollar is still much better than the laptops and you get a decent number of ports. (And personally, I'm always paranoid about having really expensive laptops!) I haven't tried the M2, but my M1 is basically silent.