OP got what was considered a smoking system in 2015 w/16G RAM, but it is far from what is optimum today.Īs OSX grew in physical size, with Mac’s FREE OS UPGRADES, but more importantly, it grew in the amount of RAM it uses, (tho I read a post that claimed Big Sur had a smaller footprint, I can’t verify it) and as Logic offers more and more features FOR FREE, they tend to take up more RAM when you use those features. The biggest slowdown when using Logic, is the handling of memory. So let’s dig deeper into why we would want 64 Gig of Ram in a Mac workstation. Today, with M1 Max released, Mac just doubled down. Today, 16 Gig is nothing in the PC world, if you want a serious workstation.-yet M1’s, with only 16G RAM, kicks everyone‘s butt. PC users usually look at the components to judge a Mac, solely by the cost and/or specs of components, and don’t consider the performance aspect that Mac can give with those components. A PC can’t do anything serious with only 16G. The way OSX handles itself makes incredible use of 16G with an M1.

Or, “it’s how much and it’s just an XYZ cpu”. This is why PC users, whom often look at it and say, “only 16 Gig RAM, why that hardly enough for anything”. So, I have to believe there are some things that apple’s developers learned from the M1, that they would do differently in the next generation, so I waited, but that’s me and I ordered a 16” 64G M1 Max MBP.īut an M1 with 16 gigs rocks. M1’s, it turns out, are great and have proven themselves handsomely as an Intel slayer, even a Mac Peo slayer in many instances, with only 16G, for around a year now. I’ve been holding off, waiting for the M1’s successor, for I didn’t think it wise to get a first generation chip. I usually replace my Mac every two years (I’m a full time Mixing Engineer) and the macs in the studio get upgraded, down the line, with mine replacing the next one down, etc. Here are my thoughts, for what they’re worth.

I’m not an IT guy and I don’t even play one on TV, but I’m no slouch either, when it comes to computers.

Turn down latency in logic x pro