So I’m waiting to see what they will announce next month, and I’m up for either an ARM MacBook Pro (preferred) or a Mini. ARM will be significant.Īlthough Apple says that they will support Intel Macs for five years, I wonder how many app developers will continue to do so.
I suspect the difference between Intel vs. From what I keep reading, it’s anticipated that they will roll like thunder. Because I was shut out of OS X when I bought my beloved original Cheese Grater just before it was announced that it would run only on Intel Macs, and I missed on years of upgrades and new apps, I’m waiting for the new ARM Macs. Since a subscription to an Adobe bundle would mean scaling back on a vacation, I’ve held off buying a new MacBook Pro. But it is really starting to show its advanced age, and the hard disk and fan go into major protest mode when doing something complicated or having a lot of windows open. It does what I need it to do for personal stuff. I use it for the same Adobe stuff you do, along with ancient versions of Acrobat Pro, MS Office and Filemaker Pro and Adobe CS 5. I recently retired, but I when I was working I did have a much newer iMac in the office. So it’s probably going on about 15-16 years old. It’s so ancient I don’t even remember how long ago I bought it. The latest OS my MacBook Pro can run is Snow Leopard, which was released in 2009. Or would any modern 27inch iMac wipe the floor with my old Mac Pro? So what iMac should I replace it with…? I would hate to buy something that will run slower. However I guess it is probably time to replace from a position of strength, rather than having to panic buy if my current Mac Pro fails. Though my current MacPro Laptop is from 2012 and that still works fine (I added an SSD and that gave it a new lease of life). My record is 8 years for a previous model MacPro (G4) before that had a CPU failure that came out of the blue and killed the machine instantly. But I am starting to worry a bit as it is now over 6 years old and how long do these things last for…? My Mac Pro currently runs just fine (perhaps not as ‘snappy’ as it used to be but nothing that bothers me to slows me down). Photoshop files can get quite big 300MB-1.2GB.
#LATE 2013 IMAC GRAPHICS CARD PLUS#
I do a mix of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign work plus websites.
3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xenon E5, 64GB RAM and 256GB SSD (I use a G-RAID 2x2TB External HD connected using Thunderbolt 2 for main storage of files and documents and that is pretty quick as it is RAID 0). I am currently running a Mac Pro (Late 2013) purchased in February 2014.