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How to Optimise Your Apple Mac for Making Music

When using an Apple Mac for music production we need to consider three main areas of the system, the CPU, RAM and Storage. But how much of each do you need? And how should you set them up?

Is this the final Intel iMac? 10 cores, SSD storage, new graphics and more

04 Aug in Tech

In what is presumably the final update to the Intel-based iMac, Apple has refreshed the 27" model with new 10th-gen processors with up to 10 cores. The new 27" iMac also features new graphics.

13-inch MacBook Pro 2020: THE powerful portable laptop for music producers?

04 May in Studio, Tech

Apple upgrades the 13-inch MacBook Pro! The smaller Mac stays at 13 inches but gets up to 32GB of RAM and up to 4TB of SSD storage space, along with 10-gen Intel processors.

Samsung’s Thunderbolt 3 X5 external SSD can shovel 20 GB of data in 12s

29 Aug 2018 in Studio

Samsung's brand-new portable SSD, the X5, lets you haul around up to 2TB terabytes of audio (the most expensive model) and other data, transferred from your computer over Thunderbolt 3.

New Toshiba OCZ RC100 SSD drives slay with NVMe speeds, affordable prices

22 Jun 2018 in Other

Thanks to NVMe, Toshiba's newest 64-layer 3D-TLC NAND memory chips, and a custom controller, these SSD drives race at up to 1600MB/s - more than you need even for high resolution audio recording.

Lenovo ThinkPad P52 mobile workstation: the hardcore music producer’s laptop?

19 Jun 2018 in Studio

Lenovo has announced a new workstation-class laptop in its ThinkPad series, the P52, which can be configured as a music and video production monster, and has plenty of connectivity.

MacBook Pro 2018 specs price ports release date rumors

Apple MacBook Pro 2018 rumours: A better laptop for musicians?

31 Mar 2018 in Studio

The 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pros didn't come off as convincing upgrades for musicians with reduced connectivity, somewhat gimmicky OLED touch bars, and price increases. Can Apple win them back?

Could the iMac Pro be user-upgradeable after all?

07 Jan 2018 in Tech

A full teardown of the new iMac Pro reveals that the CPU and RAM could be relatively easy to upgrade after all, but storage and graphics are perhaps another story.