Older Mac Mini purchase?

[todd ellis]

I've been thinking of picking up a gently used Mac Mini for studio "B"

Is there a hard out on how old to go? I'm sure an M1 would be just fine - would an I5 work for me?

God knows I've done VO on MUCH older machines.

Thoughts?

[Deebs]

I think it would be contingent on the software you want to run.
One of my Mac Minis is running High Sierra as its last available OS upgrade. It's my Photoshop and ancient Quicken 2007 machine.


In the Biz/Design/Composition arena I have an M2 on Mac OS 15.7 -- keeping it like that because all my stuff (Logic in particular) is S-O-L-I-D.


I have an M1 in the booth running Pro Tools and Izotope RX10.
I have my previous i7 Mini on the cabinet in "dry dock".
so-- yeah.

What are your software demands?

[todd ellis]

Just Adobe Audition. That's it. I have my Mac Studio M2 for heavy lifting in Studio "A".

Power isn't the issue. I'm concerned more with when the Apple gods and the Adobe gods sit down for coffee and decide "this doesn't work with that anymore."

Probably looking at a gently used M1 for a few hundred bucks.