New iMac with i5 Quad Core. Stability at stake?

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Wed May 04, 2011 5:09 am

While Ableton Live runs flawlessly on my iMac Mid 2008 model, Applecare will be gone in 60 days. Yesterday's announcement about new iMacs seems good to me but I am afraid about all the horror stories I have read here about Live popping and crackling with CPU running almost at full on Apple Machines with higher specs (8-Cores Mac Pro, 4-Cores Mac-Pro). New iMac 21.5 (my target for Budget) sports a 2.5 Ghz i5 4-Cores. Is this the beginning of problems? Maybe some of you that already got an i7 Quad on Macbook Pro can tell... Waiting...

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cids · Post by **cids** » Wed May 04, 2011 6:11 am

Ableton runs fine on my Mac Pro...

Rave · Post by **Rave** » Wed May 04, 2011 6:40 am

I have the i7 (quadcore) iMac from last year. I couldn't be happier with it.
Does the new model have FireWire?

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Wed May 04, 2011 7:37 am

Rave wrote:I have the i7 (quadcore) iMac from last year. I couldn't be happier with it.
Does the new model have FireWire?

Yes, 1 FW800 + 4 USB + 1 Thunderbolt on 21.5 inches model, while 27 inches model features 2 Thunderbolt.

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Tibo2004 · Post by **Tibo2004** » Wed May 04, 2011 6:05 pm

I am also considering getting the new 27' with i5.

I am wondering if it would not make more sense to get a refurb one and spend the extra cash on RAM, any thoughts on this?

Thanks

nuxnamon · Post by **nuxnamon** » Wed May 04, 2011 6:16 pm

mac pro dual quad runs great here also..

8.2.1 ableton
osx 10.6.6

Khazul · Post by **Khazul** » Wed May 04, 2011 6:29 pm

Tibo2004 wrote:I am also considering getting the new 27' with i5.

I am wondering if it would not make more sense to get a refurb one and spend the extra cash on RAM, any thoughts on this?

Thanks

New sandybridge CPUs seem to be very good for audio calculations, and so are quite a jump in performance for running live/logic etc (at least the new mobile quad core i7 is vs my old quad core desktop i7) - actually new i7 MBPs are probbay as good as if not better than any Mac Pro for running Live.

Most useful bit of this annoucement is another thunderbolt computer - hopefully we might seen something other than a monitor to plug into it soon - could really do with a thunderbolt -> USB hub and a much faster external HD.

H20nly · Post by **H20nly** » Wed May 04, 2011 7:09 pm

we don't take kindly to stability issues round here.

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Wed May 04, 2011 9:07 pm

Very reassuring, thank you!

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