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#Mac pro 2007 8 core mac
Now doing huge projects with dozens of tracks and plug ins, the Mac Pro is roughly 2 1/2 X faster.
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In almost every way the Pro trashes the MacBook, but on a single track the MacBook is about 25% better, newer chip etc.
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To illustrate this, I have two older macs, a cheesegrater 09 Mac Pro at 3.34ghz 2圆 cpus, and an 2012 MacBook pro i7 2.7 four cpu. Barring that Geekbench is 100% accurate in my experience. You can't judge the power of a computer by what an application like Live "thinks" the CPU is at, a real test of a machines power is a to failure test, this allows for random variations in what Live thinks is left CPU wise, which can be horribly off and often is. This chart in Multi core and single core results is waaaaay more accurate than the resident Live 9 Test thread. i7 or up over i5, look at Geekbench before buying, some machines specced out well on paper perform badly and visa versa. You mentioned all specs but actual processor speed, Live is a pig, no doubt, the faster the machine the better. If you open up Activity monitor/ CPU History and you and only see spiking on one CPU (2cores out of, then what you want to get is a higher CPU per core machine. CPU load can be a problem for people using heavy plug ins on one track, most audio applications including Live do not use multiple cores on one track, one cpu per track. Would the 6 core mac pro make a huge difference and be much faster? P.s.: I have already set the sample rate to 512 and pimped everything that was possible in Live. Or are 8 cores much better and necessary? Would a mac pro with 6 core, 32gb Ram be a better choice? I have so much problems with my macbook pro 2015 i7, 16gb.