2/17/2023 0 Comments Mac cpu speedThe Mac Pro is a fantastic machine, but overkill surely and pretty expensive for a 2 year stop gap Justin, is the iMac Pro quiet enough all the time to have next to you or in front of you? I’m waiting to see if the iMac Pro gets a refresh as a last Intel iMac pro. I have toyed with getting a chassis for my HDX card to try with the Mac Mini - but then there is the whole on chip graphics bottleneck… I have my doubts though if it would actually beat it in a real situation with WL. I have a 2018 macMini in my office (a 6 core i7) that scores higher on Geekbench than my production machine, a 2012 cheese grater Mac Pro 6 core. In addition, if like me your audio IO is AVID hardware (I’m on HDX card) it could easily be longer. Realistically, judging from PGs answers to my questions about this in another thread, I don’t think we are going to be using WL on ARM macs for 2 years. I have been giving this some thought too. I put the eGPU in a compartment for noise purposes but that causes it to get VERY hot which doesn’t seem good. The eGPU was essential to getting things stable for audio work but the bummer is that it makes a little noise, and gets warm. Maybe a Mac Mini could work well so I’d get some other opinions but this is my current situation. I might have a maxed out 2018 Mac Mini for sale I’m not saying you can’t use a Mac Mini, because maybe mine isn’t optimized well, or I use too many CPU hungry plugins, but I’m close to moving my iMac Pro from my studio to home, and getting a new Mac Pro for the main studio. Usually, when I started getting audio dropouts, it was when certain plugin GUIs were open and I was trying to adjust things, but when I closed the windows, the audio dropouts would go away until I reached a point where even with all plugin GUIs closed, problems were happening. I had to add an eGPU (Sonnet external graphics card) to offload some graphics demands from the Mac Mini to the eGPU so I wouldn’t get audio dropouts. but even with my maxed out 2018 Mac Mini at my home setup, I was maxing the CPU out easily at 96k and getting audio dropouts in WaveLab when trying to master all “in the box”.
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