So I just picked up a late 2012 mac mini (i7 2.3 quad) to replace my rapidly aging late 2009 mac mini. I do 90% of my DAW work in ableton and it's been running just fine for me on Yosemite. The other 10% I do in Pro Tools 10, which is no longer supported past OS 10.8. It had been running rock solid for me in 10.7.5; as warned/advertised, it sucks big time since the upgrade to Yosemite. I will not upgrade any further in PT, but I'd like to able to continue to use PT 10 as I had been. There's just something I like much better about it than ableton for certain tracking and editing situations.
I'm wondering what is the best way to go about having both of these DAWs. Here are my questions:
1) is it possible, and if so, advisable, for me to partition my new mac to run both OSes and therefore use PT in 10.7.5 and Ableton and everything else on Yosemite?
2) If the answer to question 1 is no, I do always have the option of using both mac minis - the new one for ableton, and return to 10.7 on the older one to run PT. But if I do that...what would be the best workflow for switching between the two computers - usb and monitor splitters? And how would I approach transferring files b/w the two computers - just a thumb drive?
As you can see from these questions, I'm pretty computer naive. I don't even expect any answers, but thanks much in advance to anyone more savvy than I who might take the time to shed a little light
