Mac M1 vs Mac 2012 opening same song.

spark240

Just for fun …I opened the same song on both machines at the same time

https://youtu.be/birSyZnjKaY

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but which one is which......!

spark240

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but which one is which......!

Ah yes....its kind of clearer if you listen to my yapping !

But yes...i thought maybe I should have indicated on the vid....

2012 on the left M1 on the right.

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ha, I did think that, I played it on mute, sorry! Quite different times, but practically, would those differences be an issue? Almost 10 years of tech between them too, makes you think

thecolourbox

Blimey i wish I could open a daw project in 55 seconds!

digitalscream

It'd be interesting to know what the hardware differences are in the two machines. I'm guessing that the 2012 has a 2nd- or 3rd-gen i7 in it, but what about the RAM, does it have an SSD, and if so is it NVMe or SATA? Also, is the project being loaded from internal storage, or an external drive?

Sorry for all the questions, I just like to understand the practical differences

Incidentally, that popup on the M1 when the project's loaded - was that about missing plugins? 'cos that might affect the result too.

spark240

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ha, I did think that, I played it on mute, sorry! Quite different times, but practically, would those differences be an issue? Almost 10 years of tech between them too, makes you think

Agreed its minimal, but obviously other factors might affect the difference in some cases,..this was  a simple test for fun I guess,  

spark240

digitalscream said:

It'd be interesting to know what the hardware differences are in the two machines. I'm guessing that the 2012 has a 2nd- or 3rd-gen i7 in it, but what about the RAM, does it have an SSD, and if so is it NVMe or SATA? Also, is the project being loaded from internal storage, or an external drive?

Sorry for all the questions, I just like to understand the practical differences

Incidentally, that popup on the M1 when the project's loaded - was that about missing plugins? 'cos that might affect the result too.

2012 is i7 2.3Ghz with 16G Ram, the M1 8G- Im not sure of the tech but both are installing from on board SSD's.

The pop probably is some plugins and the fact that my interface wasn't connected.

Stratavarious

That from the same external drive or duplicates?  My 12 year old mac loads 3 hours of band multitrack gig recording in about 10 seconds and the peaks in another 10.

Those both looked really slow.  

spark240

Stratavarious said:

That from the same external drive or duplicates?  My 12 year old mac loads 3 hours of band multitrack gig recording in about 10 seconds and the peaks in another 10.

Those both looked really slow.  

They are both the their own internal SSD...what DAW are you using?

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ha, I did think that, I played it on mute, sorry! Quite different times, but practically, would those differences be an issue? Almost 10 years of tech between them too, makes you think

Agreed its minimal, but obviously other factors might affect the difference in some cases,..this was  a simple test for fun I guess,  

oh yeah, get that. I thought it was a good reflection on the 2012 kit tbh. Making me think I shuold do more with my 2014 mini which mostly sits around gathering dust. Must be able to put it to some sort of productive use!

spark240

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spark240 said:

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ha, I did think that, I played it on mute, sorry! Quite different times, but practically, would those differences be an issue? Almost 10 years of tech between them too, makes you think

Agreed its minimal, but obviously other factors might affect the difference in some cases,..this was  a simple test for fun I guess,  

oh yeah, get that. I thought it was a good reflection on the 2012 kit tbh. Making me think I shuold do more with my 2014 mini which mostly sits around gathering dust. Must be able to put it to some sort of productive use!

Def. some mileage in it …I added a 256 SSD to mine and 16G ram….

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spark240 said:

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spark240 said:

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ha, I did think that, I played it on mute, sorry! Quite different times, but practically, would those differences be an issue? Almost 10 years of tech between them too, makes you think

Agreed its minimal, but obviously other factors might affect the difference in some cases,..this was  a simple test for fun I guess,  

oh yeah, get that. I thought it was a good reflection on the 2012 kit tbh. Making me think I shuold do more with my 2014 mini which mostly sits around gathering dust. Must be able to put it to some sort of productive use!

Def. some mileage in it …I added a 256 SSD to mine and 16G ram….

i don't think any of the mini's contents are upgradable sadly. Pretty sure it's all hardwired in. I'd happily have a butcher's if not. A fast external drive might be the only possible upgrade though! 

spark240

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hey, thanks for that.....now we're talking!