Hi Steve, I use everymac.com a lot for verifying upgrade possibilities. They usually have the Apple recommended specs as well as what it will handle from a real prospective. Apple often under sells what machines can handle memory-wise and such.
Check this link so you can be best prepared when going to the non-Apple Apple Store. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i7-2.6-late-2012-specs.html <https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i7-2.6-late-2012-specs.html> Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 11, 2018, at 20:06, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote: Jonathan, No worries about audio and music production on Windows. Got that covered with Samplitude. You gave me a chuckle when you mentioned making my living with sound. I haven't been making a living with sound, or anything else for that matter, for twelve years now--retired since March, 2006, before which I hacked DEC PDP systems, and then OpenVMS, for nearly thirty years. Uncle Sam and two pensions are paying me to sit at home and learn all about the stuff I wished I had time to learn back when I was working, but are way more accessible and fun to use now than they ever were. So maybe somebody was saving my best years for me to play with it all when it got good and usable. I think what I'm going to wind up doing is transistorizing my storage (upgrading the internal 5400rpm drive to a high-performance large-capacity SSD), and at least doubling my RAM. I'll start with the disk, which will give me that instrant gratification thing for sure, and take my time to shop for memory. When I get the memory in hand, I'll make an appointment somewhere to remove and discard the old slow mechanical drive and put in the new memory That'll keep me for years to come. Nobody says I have to upgrade the next time Mac OS upgrades.modules. On 5/11/2018 10:23 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > If your only issue is that Time Machine is causing a burp because both it and > your music tools are using the same disk I can think of two possibilities to > extend the life of your machine. > > 1. Add an additional hard disk dedicated to TimeMachine. I am not sure what > efficiencies there are for USB to USB disk copy so it might be that this > would not work great either. Certainly if the computer has two internal USB 3 > hubs and your applications end up doing significant I/O it would make sense > to try and have your disks on separate USB hubs. You can get an idea about > this by opening the USB row in utilities System Info application. The second > panel should have a tree view of your USB devices and if there is more than > one at the first level definitely find out about moving resources to reduce > I/O on the USB hubs. > > The second Option I was thinking of is to just turn off TimeMachine while > doing your editing. > > In any case, if you are thinking of moving to Windows or Linux, and you are > making your living with sound then, make sure to have enough time to not only > learn the new platform but also transition all your tools to it. It does seem > that several blind people are quite comfortable with sound production on the > PC. I believe Jonathan Mozen even has a book about it. > >> On May 10, 2018, at 9:50 PM, Steve Matzura <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? >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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