If you have critical work bringing in money now and need Intel today and that work would pay of the system in a few years then sure, different question. And more so I am past the point where I'd buy another Intel Mac. If you put a gun to my head and force me to buy an iMac Pro I'd save money and go 10-core. make sure you can return whatever you get. So the real answer is you need to test it for yourself. Your whole systems scaling may be limited by minor flakiness on one critical plugin. Chains of plugins still need to execute on a single core. How well stuff will scale at large number of cores is highly dependent on your sessions/workflow/plugins used etc. The Mac Pro is quite likely to be thermally limited at the high end if you get to load it up well. My take on the Mac Pro is it's still a thermally underdesigned system, yet another a poor packaging choice, that Apple seems to have abandoned with the Studio packaging, which I feel much more comfortable with. The two configs have different SSD space, I'd try to instal enough SSD internally to run sessions and samples off the internal SSD drive(s). then they will stop being available on Intel systems. But if your work needs new features/new plugins etc. But yes if you can stay on old macOS and Pro Tools versions and not need to upgrade then great. Like I'd be more inclined to think both might happen in the next 2-3 years. What do you mean by that? I expect Apple to stop putting out macOS updates for this mac well before 2027 and I expect Avid to stop releasing Pro Tools Intel binaries well before then as well. And iMac Pro will easily last till 2027.ĭoes anyone here uses iMac Pro? Should I spend a bit more and get 18 cores as it also has more RAM. I'm also getting latest MacBook Pro with M1 Max.īasically, if I buy any of the iMac Pro + MacBook Pro with M1 Max it will cost me the same as Mac Studio with the config I want and I will get 2 powerful machines to work with instead of one. The big question mark or me though is how well can PT utilize these 18 cores?Looks like it that PT is more designed for single core performance. And that's good for big sessions and mixing. But judging by the geekbench, single core performance of 18 core Xeon is very close to 10 core, pretty much identical but is significantly faster in multi core performance, it actually competes with Mac Studio with M1 Max, it's that fast. Which one to get I'm not sure though.ġ0 core has a higher single core speed and that's good for editing/audiosuite. Seems like either of these iMac Pro will be a nice improvement over my current iMac. When I just edit dialogue it's ok but I'm getting into dialogue premixing + do SFX/Sound Design as well so want to have something more powerful which can handle bigger sessions and with more plugins.Īnd a lot of work I do has very tight schedules so I need to be able to run my processing faster. + any RX work, especially Dialogue Isolate + offline bouncing takes quite a lot longer than even iMac 2019 with i5 and 16Gb of Ram. It's ok and does the job but I noticed that it started to struggle a lot more, fans started to get loud way more often + audiosuite processing eg Clarity Vx Pro etc. I'm currently running iMac late 2013 with i7 and 32Gb of Ram. Radeon Pro Vega 64 with 16GB of Video memoryĢnd spec is cheaper than 1st one by $1600nzd which is about $1050 usd. I have a chance to get iMac Pro in 2 different specs and not sure which one to choose.
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