Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
50 secs to start affinity designer is abysmal - it takes 4 secs on my win10 amd ryzen 7 2700X cpu desktop

you either have a very old or very choked up system, quite possibly both
I don't think you can compare domestic setups with a ryzen 7 2700X and no doubt a good SSD.

..that said.. ..I can't remember waiting for any software to take 50 seconds to load.

Buying an M1 Mac is going to be a shock in terms of performance, that's for sure.