Great advice, yes, but would that not be about six times the price? I
just saw this one from 2017 that looks frightfully good.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fast-8-CORE-Mac-Pro-OSX-2017-2-8GHz-32GB-Ram-2TB-HD-1GB-HD6870-VIDEO-Warranty/173158663830?hash=item28510f8696:g:ldUAAOSwyXNaRSlf
Forget the software. The 2T SSD, eight cores and 32GB memory are worth
the price all by themselves.
On 5/10/2018 10:28 PM, Maria Reyes wrote:
I would wait until the new Mac Pro comes out next year.
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On May 10, 2018, at 9:50 PM, Steve Matzura <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a quad core i7 late 2012 Mac Mini with the stock 5400rpm 1TB drive and
8GB RAM. I use it exclusively for music reation and education (mainly my own)
with Logic and Pro Tools. My sample libraries are stored on an external MyBook
3TB drive which is also shared with time Machine. Consequently, once per hour,
there's a little gligtchiness sometimes if I happen to be playing something
that draws heavily on sampled content when TM runs. Granted, it only lasts for
a second or two because the machine does not require much in the way of
backups, as very little on it changes.
So I'm starting to think it's time for an upgrade. But what to upgrade?
Clearly more memory would help, as well as replacing the mechanical drive with
a solid-state drive. There's also the main hardware, which surely can't be
upgradable to the next operating system forever. I ran into this with a 2009
iMac when Sierra was released. For disk replacement, Crucial has a 2TB drive
for five hundred dollars--that's just twenty-five cents US per gig--a very nice
price. I'm quite fond of Crucial solid-state disks, as I already own two other
smaller units used in other machine. I figure if I changed out the 1TB rotating
drive for a 2TB SSD and moved all my sample libraries to that drive, that would
also eliminate the USB 3 slow-down (if there really is one, which I'm not
convinced there is), then that USB drive would be used exclusively for Time
Machine backups.
Another option is to purchase an empty Mac Pro and put the Crucial 2TB drive
and lots of memory into it, then set the rest of it up as above. But how long
will a Mac Pro last before it, too, can no longer be upgraded? With the price
of Apple hardware ever increasing, will I eventually get priced out of
upgrading?
Everybody says it's bad practice to mix system and data files on a drive. But
if it's a solid-state drive, how could this be bad?
If I obtain a Mac Pro, which model year has the highest expandability quotient?
i.e., which one can I keep the longest and expand the most into the future
before it won't be expandable/ upgradable any more, like my old 2009 iMac
turned out to be when Sierra was released.
So, what would you do?
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