
The 2010 Mac Pro's I've been looking at are the ball park of the following specs.Ģ010 Mac Pro 3.33GHz Intel Xeon + 32GB RAM + 2TB HD and have found my CPU is getting maxed out to the point I can even edit projects anymore (even after bouncing and freezing nearly the whole project.)Īnyway, getting to the point, I want to know if it would be a good idea to invest in an older (what seems like more powerful machine on paper to me) 2010 Mac pro or the new M1 Mac Mini? My projects in logic pro are reaching up to 100+ tracks, I use some heavy CPU soft synths like Serum, kontakt, fm8, waves plugins etc. I use it mainly for Logic Pro X and have found it to crashing a lot recently as my projects are becoming bigger and more demanding CPU & ram wise. What kind of issue is going on here? Obviously we're getting mixed messages with the info above about being able to accept much larger memory configurations, but in practice things get quite whacky.I'm currently in the market to upgrade my MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010), 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB DDR3 Ram. Two of the DIMMS are being recognized while the others are not, even though there are 4 GB DIMMs in place and 4 4GB DIMMS: Upon installing these, my system still shows 32GB of RAM, but the 7 & 8 DIMM slots are showing empty now at this point. I subsequently returned this RAM and acquired 4 8GB DIMMs. I then purchased 2 16GB chips in hopes to raise the amount of RAM, however my system would simply not start up at all.

I initially had an arrangement of 8 4GB DIMMs.

Only when running a 64-bit version of Windows XP or later or Linux. More recently, OWC yet againĭiscovered these dual processor models can support up to 128 GB, but "Leopard" and later increased this maximum to 96 GB of RAM running Mac


OWC firstĬonfirmed an actual maximum of 64 GB of RAM running Mac OS X 10.5 RAM, but again, OWC found they actually can support more. Systems with dual processors, which notes as the "EightĬore" and "Twelve Core" models, likewise officially support 32 GB of From what I have read as per 's information about this unit it should be possible to have far beyond the normal maximum noted by Apple: I have a MacPro5,1 with 8 cores (2 quad-core processors) running OS X 10.10.2.
