Hi I just got this for GarageBand IMovie so I can one day film a cover or two or the odd demo .
Will only be used for music. Use my 2007 iMac for torrents/streaming/general practice ,etc
i will update it with a crucial mx500 SSD most likely , someone on another post suggested this
unless anyone knows of a cheaper alternative , around £30 would be ideal .
ive seen YouTube videos of people using a 2010 one with logik so I’m thinking my relatively simple
needs might be met with this. I know you can freeze tracks too to make things easier .
Battery cycle count is only 226 .
do you think it will be ok running Catalina when I add an ssd or should I look at downgrading it to Mojave or high Sierra (I don’t relish this as it looks tricky )
cheers Paul
Sorry to bore you with my old computer purchase ,
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from looking carbon copy or super duper look good or disk utility .
You can downgrade the OS if you want, as Catalina was not the OS that the Mac came with from new, but if Catalina will work for you then just keep it.
You can take it to 16GB RAM too, but if cash is tight, you can replace just one of the 4GB sticks with an 8GB, then repeat this at a later date.
Anything we can help with, just ask.
Enjoy it :-D
thanks again
I did this with mine, and tried to keep OS and essential stuff on the SSD, and use the new 2tb metal disk for archiving and sample libraries.
I haven't been very good at sticking to that, but it would be a good practice.
It does make the fans kick up sometimes, but there is an app for that.
You will have no problems with Garageband, but if you go up to Logic, you will be downloading some pretty big sample libraries that soon eat up disk space.
I'd recommend using Reaper as a DAW, just because I always do-it is excellent.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203106#:~:text=Select AirDrop in the sidebar,recipient shown in the window.
https://www.macworld.com/article/3052874/how-to-transfer-files-between-a-mac-and-iphone.html
I don't think we're going to be offered the next release of macOS for this machine, so Catalina is probably where it stops.
Shocking isn't it? Only 8 years of support & free OS's
Plus it doesn't mean they'll not work after the last update too, I'm keeping mine until the bitter end...& maybe I'll find a way to prolong things even then
Yes it was great for the money, I got it from CEX . I don’t have a sim in it lol I use it as a camera /video /portable computer gadget . I’m a weirdo who doesn’t use a mobile lol . Actually I do use WhatsApp over WiFi to let someone know if I,ll be in the cafe one day a week
That sounds great , thank you , iMovie looks like a nice program , I used an old version a couple years ago to record a video with my boss gt1 and audacity , I can’t remember what I did now though lol, I remember something where I had to put my latency time in which was 170ms as I wrote it down
im going to have to start from scratch now lol
Ran my last one for 18 years, now my daughter uses it. Macs are expensive but they can last a hell of a long time. My son needs a new PC laptop approx every 4 years.
I'm not against progress, but I have lost count of how many times I have had to explain to people why their computer, phone etc. no longer works the way they want, as they had 'automatic updates' turned on.
But all those nice toys every new release gives us. How do we have the discipline to resist? :-) (And how often do we install it but never use those new shiny things?)