#2018 mac pro ssd direves plus

I put in my order and timed it so that I could get the new Mac mini and accessories required to migrate from the Mac Pro before Christmas and then instead of being a couch potato over the holidays, I could do something useful and get this baby set up! My PurchasesĪkitio Node Lite TB3 Enclosure (for the HD Native PCIe Card)ĬalDigit TS3 Plus Dock (connectivity galore)

#2018 mac pro ssd direves upgrade

Christmas was coming and I was convinced! This was the Mac I needed to upgrade to. I waited a couple of months and pretty much watched every review on the Mac mini 2018 to see if theory matched reality. But hang on…Apple announce the 2018 Mac Mini at their October event and that changed everything! The Perfect Fit The sensible thing for me to do was to wait and see what the 2019/2020 Mac Pro would bring to the table. I have my own touch control Slate Raven displays, which are firmly part of my workflow so those displays on the iMac Pro and MacBook Pro wouldn’t be getting any attention. Then there’s the displays on the iMac Pro and MacBook Pro which are beautiful by the way but useless to me. It would have been a different story if I had upgraded to the ‘Trash Can’ a few years ago. The ‘Trash Can’ was over 5 years old and still very expensive. I was actually ready to upgrade in the summer of 2018, but still wasn’t really convinced by any of those options.

A Mac upgrade it is then! My Optionsīefore the 2018 Mac mini was announced, I narrowed down my options to the 2013 Mac Pro (‘Trash Can’), 2017 iMac Pro and 2018 MacBook Pro. What about Thunderbolt connectivity? Watching workarounds on YouTube didn’t fill me with much confidence and it all looked a bit messy.

I wouldn’t be surprised if those machines are dropped from official support in the next 2 years. You only have to look at the latest Pro Tools system requirements and OS Mojave compatibility to know that the 20 Mac Pro cheese-graters are hanging on by a thread. Did it make financial sense to me by investing further in aging tech though? Nope! OK, so what are my options to keep this beauty of a machine up to date? Well, I could have purchased a supported graphics card and at the same time pimp out my Mac Pro by upgrading the CPU to a 12 Core and adding more RAM. When OS Mojave was released and I read an Apple article about compatible graphics cards I quickly realised that my graphics card (ATI Radeon 5770) wasn’t supported. It wasn’t a big deal because it meant that my sessions were stable and there was none of those dreaded CPU errors! I could actually have continued to use the Mac Pro for another few years if I wasn’t so bothered about Pro Tools upgrades, OS upgrades and Thunderbolt connectivity. Then Pro Tools 12.4 was released, and I was a happy bunny as we got track freeze! I constantly used this feature on every mix because of my CPU limitations. In some scenarios this is ideal and in some not so much, but it was what it was. The Mac Pro has served me very well, but as mix session demands increased (larger track counts and multiple plug-in processing), I often had to commit tracks by printing them. I used this system for music production, recording, mixing and mastering work. My previous Pro Tools computer was a 5.1 Mac Pro 6 Core 3.33 GHz (Cheese-Grater), which I purchased in 2012 to run a Pro Tools HD Native PCIe System along with a DigiLink interface. That said, I’m a Mac guy through and through and have been for a very long time so it’s always my platform of choice.

#2018 mac pro ssd direves Pc

With the correct configuration, Pro Tools can work equally well on both platforms and as Apple prices are increasing, choosing a Windows PC to run Pro Tools is no doubt a sensible decision as the cost factor can be much less and the components are largely the same. I just want to say that the war on this topic is well and truly over.

Over to you Simon… Something To Get Out Of The Wayīefore we get into my experiences changing to a new Mac mini 2018 I wanted to say something about the Mac vs Windows PC debate. In this article Simon shares his own experiences of going from a Mac Pro Cheese-grater to a Mac mini 2018 computer fro his music production Pro Tools rig. Simon Nakra owns a recording studio called Studio Neo based in Warwickshire in the UK and he has been a Pro Tools user for the past 14 years.