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_ Regards Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] www.macambulance.com MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. On 21 Apr 2021, at 21:18, Route 49 Studio Brighton <[email protected]> wrote: Hi I run an audio mixing and recording business and am looking to move from an iMac to a MacBook Pro to give me more portability. I'm currently using a late 2012 iMac with 16gb ram, I upgraded the hard drive to a solid state and despite running some fairly large projects with lots of plugins on logic X it's still running pretty well. I do need more portability though. I'd like to go for a 16" obviously for screen size but I believe they are also more powerful? My max budget is £2000 although less would be great, if buying new, it seems I can either choose between having 32gb ram or the 8 core processor. Which do people think is most important for audio processing, my research seems to suggest RAM but that doesn't seem conclusive. Am I right in thinking new macbooks can't have ram upgraded? > Any MacBook/Air or any MacBook Pro from 2013 onwards will have soldered ram > so can’t be upgraded. 2016 onwards the storage is also soldered. The Macbook I'm looking at seems to have the Intel chips, does anyone know if any of the macbooks have the apple chips and are they worth waiting for if not? > Currently the Air and 13” MacBook Pro have the M1 chip. They seem to be > extremely fast when compared to similar intel macs. > The 16” MacBook Pro has a very powerful graphics card, so it’s mainly > designed for visual apps, though the i9 processor will work very well for > audio. Unfortunately a 16” MBP with 32GB RAM and i9 quad core will be way > over £2k even 2nd hand. If I go for new are there any models I should avoid? > Currently I’d choose the MacBook Pro 13” over the MacBook Air, but there are > rumours of a 14” M1 MacBook Pro in the wings. I imagine it will be faster > than the current 13” M1 MacBook Pro. Ideally wait until WWDC in June to see > if Apple release those. They’ve just released the iMacs so laptop’s should be > next I'm considering going secondhand, does anyone know of any reliable secondhand dealers or have something to sell? I'm anxious about buying online but if anyone has had positive dealings with a company that would be good to know. Are there any models or specific years I should avoid? I know certain models have had problems over the years. > hoxtonmacs.co.uk are very good, excellent customer service. eBay will be > cheaper but sometimes a bit risky buying 2nd hand from randoms. The 2016 > onward MacBook Pro is very fast but make sure you get the highest spec > affordable, it can’t be upgraded later on Sorry for the mass of questions! Any help on any of the above would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/CANzyC0bxpH%2BDp6vLyHDsdwY8rmmZ6pK%3Dh4yTdo%3Df17RDoahJ6g%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/91C0910B-49FB-4634-9E70-5E235AFB74EA%40macambulance.com.
