plan to get a used Mac Mini M2 because I’m super tired.... Windows updates has become increasingly irritating. I dont feel like its my computer anymore
Do you get any problems with the MPC studio software in controller mode or as a plug-in the daw.? Either in logic or studio one? Consider considering a base Mac mini M4 to handle this stuff maybe some simple video HD or 2K maybe 4K but really just 1080p hd which is fine for UA-cam videos.
I have been running an base level M2 Mac Mini for a few months and cannot fault it. Like others I was initially concerned about having just 8GB memory but it has never been an issue. Runs Logic Pro fine. Final Cut fine. Never any problems loading multiple effects etc. Obviously if you are doing some high end video creation the extra memory would come in handy but for me, with just editing guitar review videos there has never been any issues. I do use an external Lexar drive in an NVMe enclosure and again no problems with that. I also have a USB hub plugged in with a SD card and a Lacie 1TB SSD. Both are not fast for sure but they are fast enough when I need them. I will probably upgrade at some point but for now I am very happy with the base M2 Mac Mini.
Wow you look younger now, I just came from the old video that was made 1 year ago In my journey for finding the best mac mini for my needs, So this is the 2nd video I see on your channel after the video you made a year ago, What did u do to look younger :D may be you should do a videos about your daily routines and diet :)
Having used the M2 base mini since launch for music production and mixing. The biggest issue, is that the internal drive gets filled quickly. Even when used external drives for audio data and sound files. There are still large files that are installed by DAW's and plugins, that will refuse to be off loaded elsewhere. The other thing, that has stopped me getting a laptop, is simply the lack of ports, simply far too few. Next Mac will have a lot more internal storage.
I left this on another video, but one thing to keep in mind, is that the higher the number on the M chips, the more efficiency cores that are implemented in them. Effectively, this means that with only a couple of exceptions, most DAWs will not run as smooth on the higher numbered chips. Most DAWs, except for Reaper and Cubase (known so far), will not recognize or utilize the efficiency cores. The higher numbered M chips, M2, and M3, have more efficiency cores to maintain low power usage, as well as more graphics cores for video processing. If you're strictly doing audio production, this is not good. In fact, I would say it's best to get the M1 chip for audio production if that's all you're going to do on it. If you're going for an all in one machine, then I'd say the higher chips maybe the way to go, but maybe get the pro or max versions.
Thank you for this video. Very informative. I think I would still want a Mac mini just for music only I personally use my macbook air for music and work.
Very timely video - thanks! I'm currently using a very high end windows laptop for Ableton; no matter what I try, I just can't stop it glitching. I thought I might get an M2 Mac Mini as a dedicated DAW setup but needed some more info. And here it is!
I'd say for over more than a decade computer hardware isn't all that critical any more for the average producer. I've run various versions of Ableton over the years over all kinds of Windows and Mac desktops/laptops without much problems. Just make sure you have decent amounts of RAM and you can run Ableton fine even on cheaper Windows and Mac models.
absolutely; for audio editing before apple silicon I've been using a 2012 quad core mac mini for a few years and it was enough. Now I've tasted the luxury of putting a ridiculous quantity of cpu hungry synths and effects though with apple silicon and I can't go back. I rarely bother to create an aux track for reverbs anymore.
Awesome video! I am one of those doing audio post production work for TV where my track count is normally not less than 60 tracks for a 30min non-fiction show and my setup is an M1 Mac mini with 16gb of RAM and it's really great. I've had it for 4 years since launch and of course it got better when software caught up. Largest session on this system has been 250 tracks (sound design and dialog and music editing) on Pro Tools for a 95min TV stereo mix and a theatrical surround mix without a hitch. Here in Colombia these computers are 4x to 5x the price than in USA so once I commit to a system I'll do it 'til the wheels come off! So sure a Mac Studio with a million RAM and Ultra cores would be great and noticeably faster for big sessions, but not enough to justify the almost $15'000 in a base Mac Studio (adjusted for our currency and taxes) Mine is truly great and has payed for itself dozens of times over. PD. That disconnect issue is thermal on lower end drives, connected to the TB port I've dealt with it a million times with many drives.. The best solution I found is any SSD that is a Firecuda drive from Seagate, like in the LaCie drives. They handle that thermal issue perfectly and haven't disconnected for a couple of years now.
I'm still using a M1 Mac Mini with Saetachi hub w/SSD drive. I have no issues with it running Ableton. I do want to upgrade because I'm starting to need more tracks. So I'm looking at a M3 machine. I just haven't decided if I want a laptop Pro, Mini or Studio.
Nice video! Same story on my end with a M2 pro mac mini and Sandisk randomly disconnecting. Western digital refunded us even if it was from a batch not affected by the massive SanDisk issues. My older SanDisk extreme never disconnects randomly from the Mac mini while using the thunderbolt ports. With the newer SSD refunded, we went for a Synology NAS instead of having a bunch of external disks (but for video production, your use cases may be different). Cheers!
Great update. My question to you is, what would be the cheapest you would go if you primary do music production but also light video production. I might have 2 camera footage, I dont get crazy with color grading, dont what my videos you might barf. I do film in 4k but my projects are 1080p. I was thinking the base Mac Mini M2 pro would be the better option since upgrading the RAM in the standard M2 gets you close to the price of the M2 Pro already.
used M1/M2 (pro) machines will be great value in the coming years. I've got the base M1 air and barely saw any limitation (one time a slight slow down due to high ram usage; but mac os used to have memory leaks; it's better now, you just had to reboot once in a while). And I basically master with ozone inside my mixing session (I know that's not a good practice; but that works) sometimes with several izotope rx vsts on top
I use Crucial external drives and I don't have any issues. 8GB ram on a Mac is so tough. You can say the machine will run but you're not future proofing yourself if you only upgrade every few years. Rumor has it Apple is thinking of making 16GB the new base model spec when the M4s come out and it should. Too much memory compression and disk swapping to make 8GB work. Give yourself the performance back by giving your system some room to breathe.
I think it's reasonable to say that when you buy almost any Mac and consider your use cases carefully you're going to get the better part of a decade out of the thing. Semi-related note regarding disconnects via USBC/TB - i had an issue transferring the 1GB "Essential Samples from Mars" library to my Digitakt II (which is notorious for its slow transfer speeds). Seemed to be going smoothly; walked away for a bit, screensaver kicked in, and when i checked it Transfer was showing a bunch of errors. Went back to square one and didn't let the screensaver kick on, and all was well. Was connecting the DT II via an Asker USBC hub FWIW...
good to have an update :) I will say, I use a remote nextcloud instance (and a windows computer with upgraded SSDs) to hold all my data - that way I have it locally and remotely. it's gone really well without having to manage different ssd's. ... if I had over 4tb of data though, that would be different I guess.
I've actually had really good luck with iCloud so far for transferring projects between computers ( I always backup offline though! ). The 4tb drives are typically for video and I rotate files constantly. Like standard video projects will run roughly 1tb.
For music production the base model is brilliant but you’re right about film scoring being cautious. RAM isn’t as important as proportion of efficiency v performance cores for that type of music though. Ableton and Logic only use performance cores so M1 Studio is probably best bet for cinematic music as it’s likely to have more performance cores than your M3.
I’m wanting to buy the mini m2 tonight, my pc just isn’t cutting it. I’m just concerned the 8 gb won’t be enough to run getgooddrums in Kontakt. That’s literally the only thing I use in kontakt. But it’s a pretty important drum kit for me.
The reason drives disconnect randomly is there is a battery/power settings with a little option menu at the bottom of the screen. Click on that and the option is called called "put harddisk to sleep when possible" If you have issues with disconnections of disks that are APFS, MacOS extended Journaled you can change this until the problem goes away. You should not use ExFAT for disk formatting on a Mac unless absolutely necessary and you need the disk to be used with Windows or Linux as well. If you need 1 external disk to be used for multiple machines then partition it with a small ExFAT slice to use for file transfers for multiple machines but SSDs are so cheap this isn't really a good idea.
I believe users of sample libraries (like the orchestral ones) probably still want more RAM. I upgraded an Intel Mini to 64Gb but am looking forward to getting something with Apple Silicon at some point.
i bet the disconnect issue with thunderbolt is heat related. thunderbolt can make drives hot as hell and when they stay hot for a long time they begin to disconnect. when I got enclosures that are metal mine stopped doing it. also I have noticed a few thunderbolt cables that cause this too. i bought two new ones to stop this problem too.
Thank you for this info. I’ve been having issues with my Sandisk drive and iMac quad core i5 thunderbolt port. I’ll try usb. It’s been working fine as of late but some of my kontact instruments take a looong time to load. I’m wondering if I’ll have better luck with my MacBook Air m1.
Hmmm long load times could be something else. If you try a different brand, like Samsung, then you could narrow down the issue. For instance if it persists, then it's the thunderbolt firmware potentially causing issues. But if it's fixed, then could be that particular SSD was on it's way out. I didn't mention in the video, but I always have backups for projects both on site and off site just in case things have problems.
For just music production, that doesn't involve large film scoring, yes. If you multi task anything though, 8gb starts choking. So when I ran Ableton with it, that was it, I didn't do anything else on the machine. If I had to download some software I'd close Chrome as soon as I was done.
For music production, I was wondering how things would work with just 8GB. You've reinforced my suspicions, 8GB works fine for most people. I have 16 on my M2 Mini and things are perfect. I did just buy one of those Walmart specials, the M1 Air with 8GB and I've been using it in a small mobile studio setup since I'm traveling for six weeks. That seems to be operating perfectly and it's a good daily laptop. The only problem I've ever had was with a previous M1 Mac Mini that would drop the LAN connection and had trouble with Bluetooth connections. These were known problems that were corrected with the M2 MacMini.
can confirm it's not an issue. Ram upgrade being like 1/4 of the price you can go this route without worries (if you don't have a full vsl orchestra running at all time that is)
@@valdir7426 I do recommend upgrading the HD to 512GB. Apparently, it works differently than the 256. I saw they were going with 16GB with the M4 in an announcement today. What is amazing is how well Logic Pro works with 8GB.
@@peteandpuy on the original macbook air M1; it's two chips for 256 GB so it's as fast as 512. on the M2 onward it's only one chip for 256 so slower than 512
@@TonyThomas10000 That’s kind of true but not in the way people think. What they mean is that you cannot choose to assign a separate disk for swap like you might on Linux, it’s always the boot drive by default. But the current boot drive is whatever drive you boot from, external or internal. In fact to avoid issues and for an extra security measure my internal drive stays encrypted and dismounted at all times, and all disk activity only occurs on my external, which is the boot drive. So it’s most accurate to say the swap file lives on the boot drive, wherever that might be.
@@TonyThomas10000 I only see activity on the current boot drive. So I’ve thrashed my external nvme with tons of data and I got it for that purpose. I’m constantly moving massive files back and forth, but my internal drive stays encrypted and dismounted so that in the event of any hackers or shenanigans I have that safe as a fallback. So my external boot drive can’t even access the internal drive, much less write to it, because it’s encrypted and dismounted. I think the confusion came from people being used to the Linux concept of choosing your partitions and the Windows concept of setting a swap location. It is true Mac makes you use only the boot drive for swap, but when you switch between the internal or the external drives, only the one booted is used for swapping at that moment in time.
I was a huge Mac fan, but the hardware is now designed to be unrepairable. The pairing of components to each other with secret cryptografic keys is atrocious. Sadly I have to fall back on Window 10 PCs now and convert them into Hackintoshs.
this is a comparison worth watching: Mac Mini M2 Pro $2,199.00 Key Features Apple M2 Pro 12-Core CPU 32GB Unified RAM | 1TB SSD 19-Core GPU | 16-Core Neural Engine Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) | Bluetooth 5.3 4 x Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 Ports USB-A 3.1 Gen 1 | HDMI | 3.5mm 1 x Gigabit Ethernet Port Mac Studio M2 Max $2,199.00 Key Features Apple M2 Max 12-Core CPU 32GB Unified RAM | 1TB SSD 30-Core GPU | 16-Core Neural Engine UHS-II SDXC Card Reader Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) | Bluetooth 5.3 4 x Thunderbolt 4 | 2 x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 2 x USB-A 3.1 Gen 1 | 1 x HDMI 1 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet Port
From my experience, 8 gb of ram is really limited. 16gb can hold most projects, without the need to freeze or bounce tracks too often and for using not just synths modals but also kontakt libraries or multisamples. The bottleneck today is the Ram memory, not CPU's.
I agree. Amount of ram and motherboard throughput are the two most important elements of any system now. 32 GB of RAM is the baseline for any computer today in my opinion. Eight or 16 gig is a non-starter unless you’re just doing basic email and Web stuff. And if you’re doing serious graphics or game development, 64 GB is a baseline, and 128 is more realistic.
Hello there man, my name is Johnny and I'm a freelance logo designer, currently I'm looking for more works, would you love to have a logo for your channel's branding to help your audience recognise and remember you easier and longer? I would love to craft a music themed graphical monogram logo that inspired by your direction for you! Let me know if you interested to make it happen! :-)
plan to get a used Mac Mini M2 because I’m super tired.... Windows updates has become increasingly irritating. I dont feel like its my computer anymore
Definitely interested in a video in how changing workspaces impacts your inspiration and workflow
I love workflow videos and I totally agree with having different workspaces for different aspects of the process.
MBP 2012 full spec'd upgrades. 1 tb HD 16gb ram. Clean the fan. Replace the battery before it explodes. Steve Jobs swan song. Still relevant today.
I have the mini version (quad core) and use it for art installations. still solid. although with modern cpu hungry plugins it comes a little short.
Do you get any problems with the MPC studio software in controller mode or as a plug-in the daw.? Either in logic or studio one? Consider considering a base Mac mini M4 to handle this stuff maybe some simple video HD or 2K maybe 4K but really just 1080p hd which is fine for UA-cam videos.
I was just thinking about getting one of these. Leave it to Tefty to crush the timing for the need to know. You look great btw
I have been running an base level M2 Mac Mini for a few months and cannot fault it. Like others I was initially concerned about having just 8GB memory but it has never been an issue. Runs Logic Pro fine. Final Cut fine. Never any problems loading multiple effects etc. Obviously if you are doing some high end video creation the extra memory would come in handy but for me, with just editing guitar review videos there has never been any issues. I do use an external Lexar drive in an NVMe enclosure and again no problems with that. I also have a USB hub plugged in with a SD card and a Lacie 1TB SSD. Both are not fast for sure but they are fast enough when I need them. I will probably upgrade at some point but for now I am very happy with the base M2 Mac Mini.
Wow you look younger now, I just came from the old video that was made 1 year ago
In my journey for finding the best mac mini for my needs,
So this is the 2nd video I see on your channel after the video you made a year ago,
What did u do to look younger :D may be you should do a videos about your daily routines and diet :)
Having used the M2 base mini since launch for music production and mixing. The biggest issue, is that the internal drive gets filled quickly. Even when used external drives for audio data and sound files. There are still large files that are installed by DAW's and plugins, that will refuse to be off loaded elsewhere. The other thing, that has stopped me getting a laptop, is simply the lack of ports, simply far too few. Next Mac will have a lot more internal storage.
I left this on another video, but one thing to keep in mind, is that the higher the number on the M chips, the more efficiency cores that are implemented in them. Effectively, this means that with only a couple of exceptions, most DAWs will not run as smooth on the higher numbered chips. Most DAWs, except for Reaper and Cubase (known so far), will not recognize or utilize the efficiency cores. The higher numbered M chips, M2, and M3, have more efficiency cores to maintain low power usage, as well as more graphics cores for video processing. If you're strictly doing audio production, this is not good. In fact, I would say it's best to get the M1 chip for audio production if that's all you're going to do on it. If you're going for an all in one machine, then I'd say the higher chips maybe the way to go, but maybe get the pro or max versions.
Have you tried the "sudo pmset -a disksleep 0" command to fix the drive disconnect issue?
Looks like it fixes the issue
Thank you for this video. Very informative. I think I would still want a Mac mini just for music only I personally use my macbook air for music and work.
Very timely video - thanks! I'm currently using a very high end windows laptop for Ableton; no matter what I try, I just can't stop it glitching. I thought I might get an M2 Mac Mini as a dedicated DAW setup but needed some more info. And here it is!
When it comes to windows machines gpu matters more than people let off I’ve found that out through personal experiences
i have those disconnects between usb-c drives and thunderbold ports on my m1 mac studio as well.
I'd say for over more than a decade computer hardware isn't all that critical any more for the average producer. I've run various versions of Ableton over the years over all kinds of Windows and Mac desktops/laptops without much problems. Just make sure you have decent amounts of RAM and you can run Ableton fine even on cheaper Windows and Mac models.
absolutely; for audio editing before apple silicon I've been using a 2012 quad core mac mini for a few years and it was enough. Now I've tasted the luxury of putting a ridiculous quantity of cpu hungry synths and effects though with apple silicon and I can't go back. I rarely bother to create an aux track for reverbs anymore.
Awesome video! I am one of those doing audio post production work for TV where my track count is normally not less than 60 tracks for a 30min non-fiction show and my setup is an M1 Mac mini with 16gb of RAM and it's really great. I've had it for 4 years since launch and of course it got better when software caught up. Largest session on this system has been 250 tracks (sound design and dialog and music editing) on Pro Tools for a 95min TV stereo mix and a theatrical surround mix without a hitch.
Here in Colombia these computers are 4x to 5x the price than in USA so once I commit to a system I'll do it 'til the wheels come off! So sure a Mac Studio with a million RAM and Ultra cores would be great and noticeably faster for big sessions, but not enough to justify the almost $15'000 in a base Mac Studio (adjusted for our currency and taxes) Mine is truly great and has payed for itself dozens of times over.
PD. That disconnect issue is thermal on lower end drives, connected to the TB port I've dealt with it a million times with many drives.. The best solution I found is any SSD that is a Firecuda drive from Seagate, like in the LaCie drives. They handle that thermal issue perfectly and haven't disconnected for a couple of years now.
I'm still using a M1 Mac Mini with Saetachi hub w/SSD drive. I have no issues with it running Ableton. I do want to upgrade because I'm starting to need more tracks. So I'm looking at a M3 machine. I just haven't decided if I want a laptop Pro, Mini or Studio.
I believe the M4 Mac Minis are around the corner as well.
Nice video! Same story on my end with a M2 pro mac mini and Sandisk randomly disconnecting. Western digital refunded us even if it was from a batch not affected by the massive SanDisk issues. My older SanDisk extreme never disconnects randomly from the Mac mini while using the thunderbolt ports. With the newer SSD refunded, we went for a Synology NAS instead of having a bunch of external disks (but for video production, your use cases may be different). Cheers!
loving this update, ty for this x
Great update. My question to you is, what would be the cheapest you would go if you primary do music production but also light video production. I might have 2 camera footage, I dont get crazy with color grading, dont what my videos you might barf. I do film in 4k but my projects are 1080p. I was thinking the base Mac Mini M2 pro would be the better option since upgrading the RAM in the standard M2 gets you close to the price of the M2 Pro already.
used M1/M2 (pro) machines will be great value in the coming years. I've got the base M1 air and barely saw any limitation (one time a slight slow down due to high ram usage; but mac os used to have memory leaks; it's better now, you just had to reboot once in a while). And I basically master with ozone inside my mixing session (I know that's not a good practice; but that works) sometimes with several izotope rx vsts on top
I use Crucial external drives and I don't have any issues. 8GB ram on a Mac is so tough. You can say the machine will run but you're not future proofing yourself if you only upgrade every few years. Rumor has it Apple is thinking of making 16GB the new base model spec when the M4s come out and it should. Too much memory compression and disk swapping to make 8GB work. Give yourself the performance back by giving your system some room to breathe.
I think it's reasonable to say that when you buy almost any Mac and consider your use cases carefully you're going to get the better part of a decade out of the thing.
Semi-related note regarding disconnects via USBC/TB - i had an issue transferring the 1GB "Essential Samples from Mars" library to my Digitakt II (which is notorious for its slow transfer speeds). Seemed to be going smoothly; walked away for a bit, screensaver kicked in, and when i checked it Transfer was showing a bunch of errors. Went back to square one and didn't let the screensaver kick on, and all was well. Was connecting the DT II via an Asker USBC hub FWIW...
good to have an update :) I will say, I use a remote nextcloud instance (and a windows computer with upgraded SSDs) to hold all my data - that way I have it locally and remotely. it's gone really well without having to manage different ssd's. ... if I had over 4tb of data though, that would be different I guess.
I've actually had really good luck with iCloud so far for transferring projects between computers ( I always backup offline though! ). The 4tb drives are typically for video and I rotate files constantly. Like standard video projects will run roughly 1tb.
For music production the base model is brilliant but you’re right about film scoring being cautious. RAM isn’t as important as proportion of efficiency v performance cores for that type of music though. Ableton and Logic only use performance cores so M1 Studio is probably best bet for cinematic music as it’s likely to have more performance cores than your M3.
I’m wanting to buy the mini m2 tonight, my pc just isn’t cutting it. I’m just concerned the 8 gb won’t be enough to run getgooddrums in Kontakt. That’s literally the only thing I use in kontakt. But it’s a pretty important drum kit for me.
The reason drives disconnect randomly is there is a battery/power settings with a little option menu at the bottom of the screen. Click on that and the option is called called "put harddisk to sleep when possible" If you have issues with disconnections of disks that are APFS, MacOS extended Journaled you can change this until the problem goes away. You should not use ExFAT for disk formatting on a Mac unless absolutely necessary and you need the disk to be used with Windows or Linux as well. If you need 1 external disk to be used for multiple machines then partition it with a small ExFAT slice to use for file transfers for multiple machines but SSDs are so cheap this isn't really a good idea.
I believe users of sample libraries (like the orchestral ones) probably still want more RAM. I upgraded an Intel Mini to 64Gb but am looking forward to getting something with Apple Silicon at some point.
i bet the disconnect issue with thunderbolt is heat related. thunderbolt can make drives hot as hell and when they stay hot for a long time they begin to disconnect. when I got enclosures that are metal mine stopped doing it. also I have noticed a few thunderbolt cables that cause this too. i bought two new ones to stop this problem too.
I've never had crucial X8 drive disconnect connected to thunderbolt port on my mac mini M1 in over a year of using it
Thank you for this info. I’ve been having issues with my Sandisk drive and iMac quad core i5 thunderbolt port. I’ll try usb. It’s been working fine as of late but some of my kontact instruments take a looong time to load. I’m wondering if I’ll have better luck with my MacBook Air m1.
Hmmm long load times could be something else. If you try a different brand, like Samsung, then you could narrow down the issue. For instance if it persists, then it's the thunderbolt firmware potentially causing issues. But if it's fixed, then could be that particular SSD was on it's way out.
I didn't mention in the video, but I always have backups for projects both on site and off site just in case things have problems.
Dis some groovy Mac Guy (and Mom Guy) sh!t.
From M1 Studio to M2 Mini to M3 MBP… lot of swapping, and of course all perfectly justified 😅😂
I do have a SanDisk and a T7 connected to my MacBook Pro. The SanDisk disconnects randomly. Never been able to figure out why.
For an external disk buy a M2 HD housing and put a M2 ssd in it. The speed will be faster and less errors especially for high res video 😊
Would you say 8gb ram are enough?
For just music production, that doesn't involve large film scoring, yes. If you multi task anything though, 8gb starts choking. So when I ran Ableton with it, that was it, I didn't do anything else on the machine. If I had to download some software I'd close Chrome as soon as I was done.
record a video mac mini M1 vs new mac mini M4
For music production, I was wondering how things would work with just 8GB. You've reinforced my suspicions, 8GB works fine for most people. I have 16 on my M2 Mini and things are perfect. I did just buy one of those Walmart specials, the M1 Air with 8GB and I've been using it in a small mobile studio setup since I'm traveling for six weeks. That seems to be operating perfectly and it's a good daily laptop. The only problem I've ever had was with a previous M1 Mac Mini that would drop the LAN connection and had trouble with Bluetooth connections. These were known problems that were corrected with the M2 MacMini.
can confirm it's not an issue. Ram upgrade being like 1/4 of the price you can go this route without worries (if you don't have a full vsl orchestra running at all time that is)
@@valdir7426 I do recommend upgrading the HD to 512GB. Apparently, it works differently than the 256. I saw they were going with 16GB with the M4 in an announcement today. What is amazing is how well Logic Pro works with 8GB.
@@peteandpuy on the original macbook air M1; it's two chips for 256 GB so it's as fast as 512. on the M2 onward it's only one chip for 256 so slower than 512
I've been using a M1 mac mini with 16G of ram. It has been nothing but solid.
I have the base unit...great machine....but I am gonna take a look at the new Mini....
This a thunderbolt problem, don't know why it disconects
How is the disk wear? TBW numbers?
You can also boot off a thunderbolt NVME for similar speeds but no internal wear.
@@ghost-user559 From what I understand, the memory swap file lives on the internal drive and cannot be moved.
@@TonyThomas10000 That’s kind of true but not in the way people think. What they mean is that you cannot choose to assign a separate disk for swap like you might on Linux, it’s always the boot drive by default. But the current boot drive is whatever drive you boot from, external or internal. In fact to avoid issues and for an extra security measure my internal drive stays encrypted and dismounted at all times, and all disk activity only occurs on my external, which is the boot drive. So it’s most accurate to say the swap file lives on the boot drive, wherever that might be.
@@TonyThomas10000 I only see activity on the current boot drive. So I’ve thrashed my external nvme with tons of data and I got it for that purpose. I’m constantly moving massive files back and forth, but my internal drive stays encrypted and dismounted so that in the event of any hackers or shenanigans I have that safe as a fallback. So my external boot drive can’t even access the internal drive, much less write to it, because it’s encrypted and dismounted. I think the confusion came from people being used to the Linux concept of choosing your partitions and the Windows concept of setting a swap location. It is true Mac makes you use only the boot drive for swap, but when you switch between the internal or the external drives, only the one booted is used for swapping at that moment in time.
@@ghost-user559 So, that is on an Apple Silicon machine? I read that you could not do that. Did they change something?
I was a huge Mac fan, but the hardware is now designed to be unrepairable. The pairing of components to each other with secret cryptografic keys is atrocious. Sadly I have to fall back on Window 10 PCs now and convert them into Hackintoshs.
I have an M2 Studio with 32GB, and I'm not sure I'll need another computer again. Until video is 24K holographic VR or some nonsense...
this is a comparison worth watching:
Mac Mini M2 Pro $2,199.00
Key Features
Apple M2 Pro 12-Core CPU
32GB Unified RAM | 1TB SSD
19-Core GPU | 16-Core Neural Engine
Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) | Bluetooth 5.3
4 x Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 Ports
USB-A 3.1 Gen 1 | HDMI | 3.5mm
1 x Gigabit Ethernet Port
Mac Studio M2 Max $2,199.00
Key Features
Apple M2 Max 12-Core CPU
32GB Unified RAM | 1TB SSD
30-Core GPU | 16-Core Neural Engine
UHS-II SDXC Card Reader
Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) | Bluetooth 5.3
4 x Thunderbolt 4 | 2 x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2
2 x USB-A 3.1 Gen 1 | 1 x HDMI
1 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet Port
From my experience, 8 gb of ram is really limited. 16gb can hold most projects, without the need to freeze or bounce tracks too often and for using not just synths modals but also kontakt libraries or multisamples. The bottleneck today is the Ram memory, not CPU's.
I agree. Amount of ram and motherboard throughput are the two most important elements of any system now. 32 GB of RAM is the baseline for any computer today in my opinion. Eight or 16 gig is a non-starter unless you’re just doing basic email and Web stuff. And if you’re doing serious graphics or game development, 64 GB is a baseline, and 128 is more realistic.
Hello there man, my name is Johnny and I'm a freelance logo designer, currently I'm looking for more works, would you love to have a logo for your channel's branding to help your audience recognise and remember you easier and longer? I would love to craft a music themed graphical monogram logo that inspired by your direction for you! Let me know if you interested to make it happen! :-)
I’m sure you upgraded the ram, 8gb is a joke
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