Logos 9 and MAC M1 Chip

Hey everyone, I just purchased a new MacBook Air with the M1 chip and was needing to make sure that there are no problems with the Logos 9 application with that chip. I only ask because I found where you cannot download office 365 off of Microsoft’s website, but through the App Store because of compatibility issues with the M1 Chip . So needing to make sure. Thanks!

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Ryan

I have the Apple MacBook Pro M1 and it works just fine. There have been several other posts that list details on performance but I can confirm there aren't any compatibility issues.

Pastor Michael Huffman

I have the Apple MacBook Pro M1 and it works just fine. There have been several other posts that list details on performance but I can confirm there aren't any compatibility issues.

Does it list poor performance?

Pastor Michael Huffman

I have the Apple MacBook Pro M1 and it works just fine. There have been several other posts that list details on performance but I can confirm there aren't any compatibility issues.

Does it list poor performance?

Frank Jones

Works fine under Rosetta. Really looking to get all my software M1 compatible.

JT (alabama24)

I found where you cannot download office 365 off of Microsoft’s website

I have Office installed on my M1.

JT (alabama24)

Does it list poor performance?

Does what list poor performance?

The M1 is fairly impressive. Logos runs under Rosetta 2, so it isn't as fast as it would be if it were native. If you don't have a very new, beefed up intel Mac, you should be happy with performance and find it equal or better than what you have now.

Speaking generally, not necessarily for Logos purposes, I find performance to be very good most of the time, and battery life to be excellent. There are occasions where there are hiccups. Hopefully those are just growing pains.

Pastor Michael Huffman

Does it list poor performance?

Does what list poor performance?

The M1 is fairly impressive. Logos runs under Rosetta 2, so it isn't as fast as it would be if it were native. If you don't have a very new, beefed up intel Mac, you should be happy with performance and find it equal or better than what you have now.

Speaking generally, not necessarily for Logos purposes, I find performance to be very good most of the time, and battery life to be excellent. There are occasions where there are hiccups. Hopefully those are just growing pains.

so, how would I install Logos 9 on my M1?

Gregory Lawhorn

I just purchased a new MacBook Air with the M1 chip and was needing to make sure that there are no problems with the Logos 9 application with that chip.

Happy Lord's Day, Michael!

Last November I did a lengthy comparison of a max-out MacBook Pro 16" (2020 model), and a MacBook Air with the M1 chip. You can find it here: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/196476.aspx?PageIndex=1.

What you will mainly find is that indexing takes long. My understanding is that the 0-97% of indexing is preparatory, and the actually creation of the index happens in the last 3% (or so). My library is about 47GB, and my index is about 11GB, so it takes a fair amount of time. Let your MacBook Air go ALL the way through the indexing process (let it run overnight, maybe), and you shouldn't notice any differences in speed. In fact, in some things my Air is faster than my Pro.

Kevin A. Purcell

In case you care. I did a video on installation and how well it works.

https://youtu.be/px7AaTfKyTs

Also did a video on performance

https://youtu.be/J3VhIcJ8Thc

Hope that helps.

As for performance, it behaves about the same as it does on other Macs. Which means it should speed up if they ever do a version that doesn't require Rosetta 2, which I bet we'll see sometime in the next year. No inside info, just guessing.

Pastor Michael Huffman

Thanks Kevin!

Pastor Michael Huffman

Thanks everyone for your input!

Joseph Luna

Please enlighten me in lay terms, what "Rosetta" means. Is it the same thing as M1 Chip? I'm planning to purchase a Mac Air in a couple of months. I don't want any issues with Logos 9.

Thanks.

Norman Goos

I just bought the 16" MacBook Pro. I'm having a hard time installing Logos. I can download the .dmg file but I can't get it to open. Is there something obvious that I'm doing wrong?

Graham Criddle

I'm having a hard time installing Logos.

Sorry to hear this Norman

Have you dragged the .dmg file to the Applications folder as per https://www.logos.com/install

If that doesn't work please start a new thread in this forum

Gregory Lawhorn

Have you dragged the .dmg file to the Applications folder as per https://www.logos.com/install

The instructions actually have the user double-click the .dmg file to open it (step 1), and then drag the Logos application to the Applications folder (step 2).

If the .dmg file won't open (which sometimes happens on Macs), you can try giving it a few minutes, restarting your Mac, or downloading it again. The Mac OS does some system checks on .dmg files, and on the rare occasion gets stuck somehow. It's no big deal.