It does. I just might go for that 2017 model. For the price, it sure
looks like one gets a lot. I didn't see anything on the specs about how
many and what kinds of ports are on it. Will have to look it over again
more closely.
On 5/10/2018 11:08 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
Hi Steve. Every Mac has a seven year life cycle. Therefore, your 2012
Mac will still be good until at least next year. With that being said,
if you do go the Mac Pro route, I'd suggest that you buy the newest
one you can afford. So if you bought, let's say a 2016 model, that
machine would still be good until around 2023. Hope that helps with
your decision.
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On May 10, 2018, at 9:59 PM, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:
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 <numb...@noisynotes.com
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> 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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