Hettoblaster Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Hello guys, Happy new year It's been ages since i was on this website. Had some 'crap years' practically without music. Back on the horse, and LPX 10.6, now though! Question: My Studio /LPX computer is: iMac 27" late 2013, 3,5 Ghz Quad core intel i7 , 32 GB ram (1600 ddr3) , 1 T SATA disk, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2 GB. As you probably know, apple dropped OS updates for this machine. Not nice. At All. I also have a Macbook Pro: Mid 2015 15" retina, 16 GB, 2,5-GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 , 512GB SSD , AMD Radeon R9 M370X met 2 GB GDDR5. I have no complaints about my iMac; i love it. But it hurts to see i can't install Big Sur, not that i need it, now, but from now on it's counting down, right? Would i notice a significant performance drop if i'd continue on the MBP instead you'd say? Or not even that much as some parts are newer/faster? any idea? I do Techno/tech house / house etc: quite some AU synths , Au effects and automation. Not so much audio. Any thoughts? thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 According to this Geekbench comparison, the MBP is almost as powerful as the iMac, so you shouldn't notice a performance drop. https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-comparison-chart/?compare=all-intel-macs&highlight=0&prod1=iMacIntel057&prod2=MacBookPro094&prod3=iMacIntel003 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nunstummy Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 I have a mid-2014 MacBook Pro 15 on Catalina 10.15.7 running LPX 10.6. All is good, despite 64 bit requirements. It took a while in 2020 to get updates from 3rd party plugins, VSTs and hardware, but it’s fine now. I CAN upgrade to Big Sewer, but I’m waiting a bit. I think your 2015 MBP should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hettoblaster Posted March 3, 2021 Author Share Posted March 3, 2021 Thank you for your answers. When i wrote this, we just got ourselves this second hand MBP, as a main inhouse computer. Then saw the possibility to swap with my iMac, and the thought came out of the iMac not being supported by apple anymore. Thing is though; i wasn't even taking the new M1 processors and prices in consideration yet, hand't really looked into that as im not buying. But now i have and it's totally ridiculous right; performance/price wise. Yeah, i don't really 'need' big sur either, i don't care really; the iMac runs great - i've bought a Samsung T5 ext SSD, cloned Mac HD and now boot from the ext SSD: THIS makes such a difference as i opted for the cheaper 1T HD in 2013. I do wonder though, because this now really is the question , right? Will the next (major) LPX update still be catalina compatible? or only big sur? OR.. only big sur on M1 chips. (but i suppose they won't do that to us yet, would they..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Nunstummy Posted March 4, 2021 Solution Share Posted March 4, 2021 What we do know is you need big sur for any M1 Mac. My wife has the new MacBook Pro 13” M1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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