@cmc @djogon - you may be interested in EigenD for Apple Silicon test build.
apparently, Ive had the the Mac Mini M1 for 4 months now… time flies.
I thought, Id review my initial post, and see where we have got too,
so here are the 3 steps I discussed…
step 1 - music computer
this has worked out extremely well…
whilst most daws are still running under Rosetta, but I’ve had no issues with them at all.
the performance has been excellent.
as expected/hoped, we are seeing more and more software ported to apple silicon, already quite a few vsts are either out, or in beta.
looking beyond music, video software are seeing apple silicon versions , so not only final cut pro, but also Davinci Resolve.
importantly, I think all developers have said they are working on native versions.
so generally its a bit of a mix bag, as to what runs native (which is not unsurprising), but I expect when the iMac/bigger MBP are released (June 7?) , we will see quite rapid progress here.
however, its not a big deal - since Rosetta and the performance on the M1 is so exceptional.
… its easily outperfoming my i7 2.5ghz mac book pro, at a fraction of the cost.
the only ‘negative’ I had really was initially setting up (video) monitors with the Mini - the Apple offering was out of my budget, and it was a bit fiddly to get what I wanted - though reading forums, this is really a general issue with 3rd party monitor support on macOS - any way all working now - and very happy!
(it did make me appreciate how great the iMac monitors are !)
step 2 - development
this was mainly about developments tools, the progress in this area has been amazing!
this is hugely important since developers (of things like daws) need tools and libraries to be updated to enable them to port thier own software.
personally, I dont think there are any impediments to this now.
interestingly the lack of a virtual machine (vmware) to run linux, meant I forced myself to sort out a decent cross compilation environment - which is fantastic on this machine.
generally, this is now the best macos dev machine Ive ever had - by a large margin.
its ridiculously fast, and completely solid.
step 3 - looking at migrating various software to arm
porting EigenD over last weekend, was really my last task…
Ive now managed to get all my projects now building and running natively on apple silicon.
given its only 4 months, thats coo - a much shorter timescale than I had anticipated.
Conclusion
overall, as you can probably tell - Im as impressed by the M1, as the day I got it.
for a computer thats unusual… usually, you think for the first week ‘wow its fast’, then you quickly get used to it… and its just normal - but the M1 has continued to surprise me.
the iOS support, still feels a bit gimicky - technically works fine, but I think many iOS developers are not sure how to market this.
Big Sur, has thankfully been much less problematic than I was expecting.
the price/performance I think is exceptional.
I’d say 16gb is pretty much essential, so the base price is really 1000 euro (as I suspect you could use an external SSD if your on a budget) - and I will agree with reports, that 16gb does seem to get you further than it would on Intel (where I always use 32gb+)
the M1 is definitely a great machine, the best apple has released in years.
of course, the current machines are for all - many want an iMac or a more beefy MBP.
the good news is it looks like you want have to wait long…
the WWDC (apple dev conference) is Jun 7th, basically this will be 100% dedicated (likely sycophantically 
) to the success of the M1 launch, and how the ‘migration’ is going smoothly … this is what apple always do … and then as part of that , its very likely they will announce the next in the lineup - which you’d expect to be the iMac and MBP (*)
(*) I’d say this is almost certain, unless they have had technical or manufacturing issues - of course, this is all possible given the panademic has complicated life for all manufactures.