Apple's M1 Chip

Apple has recently come out with a new chip that is now available in both laptop and desktop computers. These chips were designed to be more efficient. Unfortunately, it came at a high cost. Specifically, some software is not compatable with the new chips. As a work-around, Apple provides an interpreter, Rosetta 2, which initial reports indicate is slow, which makes sense as it is another layer of software before the computer can actually do the work. Mainly, I’m concerned about Matlab and R/RStudio. The MathWorks has put out a statement about Matlab on the new chip; it will run through Rosetta 2, but it looks like you need an updated version. R is a bit more complicated; for now, it looks like R will run, but through Rosetta 2, according to the r-project, but RStudio for Apple M1 does not appear to be available yet.

This M1 better be worth it to someone.