#MACBOOK PRO RETINA 2015 UPGRADE#
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#MACBOOK PRO RETINA 2015 PRO#

I changed my music recording system about 4 months ago and bought a 2014/15 MacBook Pro Retina 2,5GHz i7, 16GB Ram,ĥ12GB Flash drive for the use with PT11/12. Just wanted to bring in my personal experience additionally. a DAW is all about getting audio on disk, with this internal SSD most users are able to avoid needing an external audio/session drive for Pro Tools.īasically Darryl has covered it all, as usual. So like I said, max out that drive to 1TB. It is just night and day, the only way you get close to the internal SSD performance of the MBPr standard SSD is with external Thunderbolt PCIe based SSDs like the ~$1,000 1TB Lacie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2. The increase in random IO performance is even more spectacular (but all good SSDs have realtively great random IO performance). You end up with sequential IO read performance over 1.2 GB/sec (1,200 MB/sec) compared to the sequential IO of ~200 MB/sec for a 7,200 rpm laptop HDD. The PCIe SSD in the MBPr is connected by multiple PCIe lanes that are all much faster than the SATA III (6 Gbps) interconnect used in most other laptops HDD or SSD. SSDs don't spin, that is the 'Solid' part in Solid State Disk (SSD). for me it would be, and I'd need things like maximum 3D graphics performance for other reasons. Again the reason to max these systems out is they are closed non-upgradeable and already expensive, so the question is it worth throwing more money into something already expensive or not.

#MACBOOK PRO RETINA 2015 MAC#

Configuring a custom built Mac thorough the Apple online store will get you all the options that a retail Apple store or reseller will not have. Just go into the online Apple store and configure the MBPr and pick the fastest options there. The fastest is the fastest, for current MBPr that is 2.8 GHz/4 GHz (turbo Boost). My knowledge on computers is average, when you say 'fastest clock CPU', do you mean getting, for example, 2.5 Ghz instead of 2.2 Ghz?Ĭan you say how many RPM is super-fast SSD?

#MACBOOK PRO RETINA 2015 PC#

Buying an user upgradable PC I'd be much more conservative on initial configurations. I'd also go for the fastest clock CPU, it all adds money (you are looking at over $3k) but the end result is a MBPr that will may be much more usable and last you a year or more longer. Especially that super-fast SSD as already mentioned. Given how the MBPr hardware is not really user upgradeable I would tend to max out any system. It is unfortunate, but I suspect they have other problems that many folks here would rather they work on. MBPr is a very common platform for Pro Tools if there were major issues you would see folks here rightly screaming about it.Īvid does not do a good job keeping their supported platform information up to date. Many people do use Pro Tools 12 on current and near current MBPr. Otherwise any comments about the suitability of a computer for what you want to do with Pro Tools are pretty useless (beyond that a MBP Retina often is/might be a great Pro Tools computer).Īs this new MBP retina is not approved by Avid, I wanted to know if it will work, now I know, thanks to you, Pro Tools 12 will/should run fine on it.Įven though, it´s surprising nobody seems to own both. If you want useful help from others on DUC about sizing a computer for Pro Tools then you really need to provide information about your sessions/workloads, sample rates, # tracks, plugins used, what interface you use, whether you are working with video, how heavy VI workloads etc.

How do you de-risk all that upgrade/computer migration (don't do it in the middle of a project.). Are all your plugins compatible? Can you test that now (with a demo of Pro Tools 12 on a different computer, etc.).

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So your question to yourself should be how much work will it take you to upgrade to Pro Tools 12 and the computer. not unless you check and *know* you can do that downgrade (in this case you cannot). You cannot just ignore that stuff or just guess you can fix it by downgrading OS X versions.

#MACBOOK PRO RETINA 2015 SOFTWARE#

But understanding compatibility start with software compatibility, including OS and all your plugins and your interfaces/drivers.

The MBP is a great platform for Pro Tools, assuming you have sized the system/configured it suitably for what you want to do. Oh lets ignore that and think of other things. I'm described to you exactly what your problem is going to be. You cannot downgrade this MBP to get what you need. I know what you are hoping to do _will not work_. Now, let´s say the OS issue is solved, do you know if Pro Tools (9,10, 11 or 12) runs fine on MacBook Pro 2015 retina ? Sorry to insist, but I need you to confirm this, it´s a lot of money.

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