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Originally Posted by Sardi

Are you tied to PCIE slots or large amounts of RAM?

You’re going to find that your new laptop will run rings around that MP. Relegating it to office duties is criminal! HAHAHA

It’s funny though. So many people still getting a lot of mileage out of the old MP towers. I jumped on one a few weeks back to help a colleague with some RX work and was just gob smacked by how slow renders were on that machine compared to my 6 core Intel Mini. Like really slow in comparison.

I guess if you’re just running mix sessions with DSP or need the RAM and slots, then yeah, you can still squeeze some mileage out of them. But comparing them to a machine with modern architecture and they really do feel sluggish. Can only imagine what it will be like with these new M1 Pro/Max laptops.

My jaw dropped at how fast the M1 MBA I bought my partner is. I wanted to put PT on there for *****s and giggles but never got round to it. Probably a good thing as I’d likely want to get another one. =P


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The 5,1 is a dedicated Pro Tools machine; 48GB Ram with an HDX and a UAD PCI cards in it. It also has an M.2 NVMe SSD startup drive, Radeon RX580 GPU, Bluetooth 4 and 802.11ac WIFI (which is usually off since it's wired to Ethernet). This is my home machine and it is in no way sluggish running Pro Tools. I routinely switch back and forth with the three machines at the NYC studio (2019 McaPro, 2013 Trash can pro and an iMac Pro). This is no discernible difference in Pro Tools performance on the 2010 and the 2019 Mac Pro and iMac Pro. The 2010 Mac Pro is noticeably faster than the 2013 Trash Can, mostly in graphics redraw performance and boot up time. Now if you are doing things in FCP, yeah, huge difference with the 2019 Mac Pro being a beast.

Now that its running Big Sur smoothly, I figure it's got another two years of life as my main Pro Tools machine.