I’m hovering over an add to bag button myself, and I think I’ve just completed my last round of checks and justifications…
The topics of how Plex will leverage the GPU hardware, and how that compares to Intel from a price-v-performance, I’ll leave aside, beyond saying the price point of a well spec’d NUC and Mac Studio isn’t that big (my last NUC purchase in 2018 (NUC8i7HVK, 32GB RAM & 1TB 980 EVO), only a few hundred dollars less than the entry level Mac Studio today, and at a glance the NUC pricing hasn’t changed that much.
- Plex are finalising a full native M1 release, and are “close” to release
- Currently Transcode is native (Plex leverages Apple’s VideoToolbox), so nothing to do with Rosetta2.
- All other functions are likely today to need to go via Rosetta2 emulation until the native version is released (things like optimise jobs, media analysis, previews intro dection etc), but this shouldn’t be a major issue and only (hopefully) for a short time.
Source for the above points - Plex Media Server running on Apple Silicon M1 chipset i.e. new Mac mini, MacBook, etc - #354 by elan
