Dear Hauptwerk users,
I’ve tried to understand the tons of topics here about the new Apple Silicon CPUs, in order to decide what kind of machine should I buy, to let me do the update from HW4 to HW7 without issues.
At the moment my MBP 2015 retina 4 core i7 works sufficiently good for HW4 Sample Sets fitted in 16gb RAM.
But, in order to upgrade from HW4 to 7, my doubt is about purchasing the right APPLE machine at the moment, considering that Apple this year is planning to replace all “old” Intel Macs with Apple CPUs, and considering that Hauptwerk is the main reason of my upgrade. So, my idea of future choice would be one of this option:
- new 2022 iMacs (sure that Apple in 2022 Events will release iMacs with m1pro/max CPU);
- Intel 2020 iMacs (i7 3.8ghz - i9 3.6ghz) ;
- 2022 Mac mini with m1max/pro upgrade (as I expect).
(Mac pros are insanely expensive and I prefer iMacs than MBpros as I want a desktop machine and as I have already an iPad Pro as portable device)
RAM Question:
The sets I’ve purchased from 2007 till now could fit in 64gb RAM, with all channels/options, but working in HW4.
I’ve read that HW7 works very differently and is way more complex and demanding than HW4.
So.. 64 or 128 gb RAM?
Thank you all and all the best!
Marco
I’ve tried to understand the tons of topics here about the new Apple Silicon CPUs, in order to decide what kind of machine should I buy, to let me do the update from HW4 to HW7 without issues.
At the moment my MBP 2015 retina 4 core i7 works sufficiently good for HW4 Sample Sets fitted in 16gb RAM.
But, in order to upgrade from HW4 to 7, my doubt is about purchasing the right APPLE machine at the moment, considering that Apple this year is planning to replace all “old” Intel Macs with Apple CPUs, and considering that Hauptwerk is the main reason of my upgrade. So, my idea of future choice would be one of this option:
- new 2022 iMacs (sure that Apple in 2022 Events will release iMacs with m1pro/max CPU);
- Intel 2020 iMacs (i7 3.8ghz - i9 3.6ghz) ;
- 2022 Mac mini with m1max/pro upgrade (as I expect).
(Mac pros are insanely expensive and I prefer iMacs than MBpros as I want a desktop machine and as I have already an iPad Pro as portable device)
RAM Question:
The sets I’ve purchased from 2007 till now could fit in 64gb RAM, with all channels/options, but working in HW4.
I’ve read that HW7 works very differently and is way more complex and demanding than HW4.
So.. 64 or 128 gb RAM?
Thank you all and all the best!
Marco