I would add that Resolume Arena works fine on my 500-watt Windows 10 PC, though. Thanks.
But, Apple is currently building processors that will be released before the end of the year that use 1/8th the amount of energy and perform as well, so long as software was written with them in mind.
Do you care about climate change?
Decades from now, do the performing arts wish to be remembered as careless contributors to climate change, or active participants in reducing energy use? We’ve seen massive reductions in the energy consumption of movie production through the use of LED lighting fixtures like ARRI Skypanel S360 in place of HMIs. We’ve seen massive reductions in the amount of physical waste in movies with the on-set recycling programs. Yet, with media servers in general, they all run on these big, beefy heat-generating workstation hardware, in a world that is transitioning to ARM. It is discouraging. Okay?
I cannot in good conscience send $219 a year to a company uninterested in helping to address climate change by being unwilling to adopt modern software design to help software run optimally on the next generation of energy-efficient computers. It just goes against my values. I’d rather support other companies that want to address climate change by making software that performs well on low-power hardware, because that is consistent with my values. Okay?
Would I be profiting by selling my Arena license for more than I paid? Yes. Absolutely. Will I spend that money helping to address climate change? Yes. Absolutely. Which is more than can be said for Resolume, the company, when they make a sale. Just saying.
If 10,000 people using Resolume 5 hours a week could reduce their energy consumption by 400W, by running a heavily-optimized version of Resolume for ARM and newer graphics APIs, this would result in 1,040 Megawatt hours of avoided energy consumption annually. In a combined-cycle gas turbine plant (that produces 1,000 lbs. of CO2 per Megawatt hour), that's a 1,000,000+ lbs. of avoided CO2.