Especially with Macs you face inflated costs and often non-upgradeability so I would tend to overconfigure machines to get some good years of use out of them. The simplest guide for what to purchase is starting with what you are using now.
If you are working with large sessions, especially using lot of VIs, then you will need more compute power, and memory, and potentially disk (for sample libraries as well as sessions).
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Macs generally run Pro Tools well, but how much horsepower you need nobody here can guess. The Supported Computers list is near useless and not kept up to date. 1 would be for backups of all sessions, and the other would be for backups of your system drive(drive images), and I would also designate a folder to store everything you download(PT installers, plugin installers, etc) This might be overkill to many, but I have never regretted saving installers My preferred use of backup drives is to keep them turned OFF most of the time(turn them ON, copy/backup, then eject and turn them OFF). Re Darryl's advice on drives, I agree and recommend at least 2 external drives(or maybe 1 really big one that's partitioned in half). However, with so many folks getting better stability with Hyperthreading disabled, the i5 may make more sense(though this seems to depend on a great many small details) Re the i5 vs i7 debate, in the past I have always been a proponent of the i7. Avoid Fusion drives(I think all you listed are good on that detail).
I think any of the 27" models you listed would do a fine job, but you DO want to go with 16GB of RAM at the minimum, and I would double that to 32GB if you plan on using many VI's(Virtual Instruments). Good advice from Darryl One more opinion I would skip the 21.5" as the larger screen is going to make life much easier. Any help/advice would be very much appreciated. Radeon Pro 5500 XT with 8GB of GDDR6 memoryĪpologies for my lengthy post. Retina 5K 5120-by-2880 P3 display with True Tone (optional nano-texture glass available)Ħ-core 10th-generation Intel Core i5 processorĨ-core 10th-generation Intel Core i7 processor Just in case, can I ask if any of these iMac specs would work with the current Pro Tools 2021.3 (Pro Tools STANDARD)?Ħ-core 8th-generation Intel Core i7 processorģ.1GHz 6-core 10th-generation Intel Core i5 processorĨGB (Upgrade to 16 or 32GB) 2666MHz DDR4 memory I'm honestly a little confused as to what the real minimum requirements are, my apologies.
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My question is this: Are these requirements supposed to be strictly adhered to, to the tee, or are these just the recommended specs for the most optimized performance? I ask, because of the "Minimum System Requirements" section which mentions the bare minimum, like Intel Mac, OS versions, i5 processor, 16GB RAM(like Intel® Mac with macOS 10.14.6, 10.15.7, 11.2.3, among others, but which also states, "please find version specific qualifications in the macOS Compatibility Grid below" where the only stated iMac 2020,x specs stated is "2020 Retina 5K 27" iMac20,2 10-Core i9 'Comet Lake' 3.6 GHz w/Radeon Pro 5700 X". I just upgraded my Pro Tools STANDARD and would like to start my transition to PT 2021.3 and BigSur on a new iMac. Apologies if I seem dense about stuff like this, but I'm about to purchase a new iMac (since Pro Tools is already BigSur-compatible) and would just like to really be sure before doing so.
Just wanted to ask, for clarification, about the Avid "System Requirements and Compatibility for Pro Tools", particularly the "Supported Apple Computers" section.