I am sure the problem would be not with the chip but the latest version of the 
Mac OS - which may not be compatible. I can’t test because my university is one 
whole operating system behind the times. One of the few occasions when what 
they do actually benefits us. 

Adrian 


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> On 8 Nov 2024, at 21:42, Jurgen Bosch 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have an M3 and everything I need works fine. I do not foresee any issues 
> with M4.
> 
> Jürgen
> 
>> On Nov 8, 2024, at 12:40 PM, Patrick Loll <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m thinking about getting a new laptop before the imbeciles in the new US 
>> administration impose massive tariffs on anything made abroad.
>> 
>> This would likely involve getting an Apple machine with the new M4 chip. 
>> These are only just being released, so it’s obviously too early for people 
>> to have tested them with crystallographic packages. However, I wonder if 
>> some of the more chip-savvy folks have any predictions?  I.e., will there be 
>> a long period of tweaking/recompiling before our favorite packages can run 
>> happily, or will software that works OK on the M1/M2/M3 machines port easily 
>> to the M4 machines?
>> 
>> Speculation welcome.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Pat
>> 
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