There's a solid chance that Rosetta isn't going to play well with the applications you've listed, and while there is a decent chance it'll work, it's probably not going to be worth chancing it when it means that you could be unable to run stuff that you need to use for your degree. But honestly, as much as I hate to say it with how good the M1 CPU is, for your use case it's not the best idea. If you're insistent on a MacBook, the best advice I can give you is to get the M1 Air, especially as you could spend the money you would spend on an 8GB Pro on a 16GB Air, which will likely be more meaningful to performance than the slight CPU boost. Im struggling to decide and have never own a MacBook before and I really want to make sure I get my money’s worth. The new M1 is proven to be a lot faster ext, but I’m still questioning where it’s worth getting the M1 chip or one with intel, when using these softwares. And the MacBook Pro Intel works perfectly with these softwares. But they claim they are going to fix these issues. I understand the new MacBook Pro M1 support these through rosseta but can have some issues. I will be using softwares like Fusion 360, any other Autodesk softwares and Adobe softwares like Illustrator, photoshop and indesign. I’am trying to compare the MacBook Pro intel core i5 with the new MacBook Pro M1 chip. Help!! I’m looking to buy a new laptop for when I go to Uni this year and to use it beyond that. Otherwise I’d opt for the M1 since it is literally made for apple devices I’d recommend you wait until September for the new MacBooks to come out. It’s only apples first generation processor.

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