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Pro Tools 12 Disk Cache is great, and can mask lots of issues, but if buying a professional workstation, just skip the crap and go straight for the very very fast Apple PCIe/NVMe SSD, they have incredible performance, and worth it even at Apple prices. (starting with wether you are using Disk Cache in Pro Tools or not). And unfortunately these kin of things are often not "it works OK for me so should work OK for you", they tend to be very dependent on software/setup/sessions etc. All a cheap and nasty low-cost way of Apple trying to improving performance, not something anybody should want on a professional DAW workstation. And if you are unfortunate enough to buy a Fusion drive with a 4800rpm HDD then uh, they suck at just about everything. Yes some specific things may have been improved, but the fundamental problem of very unpredictable IO latency is inherent to the design. Sierra should fix that though, can't wait. The only issue is the minor GUI lag with faders and the Pro plugins. I have a Late 2015 27" iMac running El Cap and HD Native 12.5.2 and it's perfect. MacBook Pro 2.6GHz Intel Core i7 16GB 512GB SSD 15' Retina Display MR942 A1990 2018 - Refurbished Special Price 1,149.00 Regular Price 1,349.00 More Choices: iMac 3.0GHz 6core Intel Core i5 8GB 1TB Fusion Drive 27' Retina Display 5K MRQY2 A2115 2019 - Refurbished Special Price 1,600.00 Regular Price 1,895. Just chiming in - I know a lot of people say to stay away from the Fusion Drives, but it's been fixed for a while now. Are they preferable to fusion drive? Obviously they are faster but is there any Pro Tools related issues with them? Are they more or less reliable that fusion drives? Is Halswell i7 and ProTools work fine? Also, 1st option has twice as much video memory but I don't play any games :) The difference is $500 (1st option is more expensive)ġst option looks better but I never worked with pcie SSD. IMac (27-inch, Late 2013) - Technical Specificationsīoth have Apple warranty till July 2017. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M graphics processor with 4GB of GDDR5 memory I looked at the options and there is two available.ģ.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz).
#Imac pro 2018 vs late 2015 retina 5k 4 ghz upgrade#
I cannot buy current iMac because I then have to upgrade to PT12 and I'm not ready to do so. I do audio post production and the current machine works fine but I'm getting busier and want to upgrade it to more powerful one + 27" screen. I'm currently running PT11HD (standalone software) on late 2012 21,5" iMac with 16gb of RAM, 512Mb of video, 1Tb fusion drive and 3.1Ghz i7.