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Buying a new Mac.
Hi everyone I'm looking to buy a new Mac this weekend and upgrade to PT11.I'm familiar with Mac OS and want to stay with them. I almost never use more than 32 tracks but ideally I'd like the most bang for my buck. I would be hooking up a 3tb Glyph to it and possibly a 1tb Seagate. I do use some fairly intense plugins, like Play, Ivory and Superior Drummer and reverbs. I am using a pile of Slate and Waves plugins as well. I don't want to have to worry about what the computer is doing when I'm doing a session. Yes I know we all want that. What I'm looking at is a 21.5 inch Imac with a quad core i5 8gb of ram and a 5400rpm hard drive. Would this handle what I want to be able to do or would I need the 7200rpm hard drive offered in the 17inch model to have more peace of mind? Ideally I'd like to keep the cost around $1800 at most and less would be better. Thanks
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Re: Buying a new Mac.
skip the i5, get the i7
check that the plugs you want to use are available in the new AAX 64bit format, your current RTAS plugs are DOA. Slate has only released a few of theirs 5400 for the OS is OK plugs will load a little slower than the 7200
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Keep in mind the 21.5" iMac only has 1 Thunderbolt port where the 27" has two and current iMacs are USB3 ports. I use the iMac in my sig file and at 60+ tracks it's barely straining in PT11 with heavy vi use (Play 4 EWQLSO, Ra, Stormdrum 2/Pro, etc.). |
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Re: Buying a new Mac.
Kind of in the same boat here. I am considering a switch from win to mac, and the 27" I7 imac looks good to me. Buy it with 8gb of RAM and upgrade it to 32 myself for less than half.
I've priced out a new build win machine using the recommendations for members here, and to get the same kind of performance, AND a hi res 27" display, the price seems to be a wash between the two. However, i see that OSX 10.8.4 is the Avid supported OS and they are shipping with 10.8.5 and now 10.9. I know NOTHING mac, so is there a way to back off the OS to 10.8.4?
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Re: Buying a new Mac.
10.8.5 seems to be OK
10.9 to 10.8 requires wiping 10.9 and installing 10.8 and that is not always doable
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Re: Buying a new Mac.
Yes, it is. Avid has not blessed it but it works just as good as 10.8.4
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Re: Buying a new Mac.
This guy has trouble with 10.8.5
http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t...highlight=6101
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- Although Apple ram is more $$$ than everyone else - there are some weird fit issues with many of the modules on the newest imacs. THere is also some discussion of 1.35v vs 1.5V ram. The apple upgrade to 16G replaces the two 4G sticks with two 8G ones for $200 (cheapest 16G is $135 - most is OWC $200). Starting with 16G can either be enough or a more direct and only slightly more expensive path to 32G (I always spring for OWC am anyway).
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