Sorry, one last thing: I've been a professional designer for over two decades and have never bought a new Mac. I actually run the latter on a traditional HD to save space on my SS memory - it takes several seconds to open the project, and flipping through software instruments can be a bit annoying, but I'd rather have the performance disk devoted to project playback. I'll also throw in that if you're going to put anything on an SSD, I would think it would be the project files instead of the Logic libraries.
I'm totally biased, being a visual designer who really relies on it, but even in LPX I can't imagine 'not caring' if I have the option - the UI just looks so much more crisp at that resolution, and tiny details like the Mixer level numbers are a lot easier to read. I think that just demonstrates how someone with David's expertise knows how to avoid *needing* more computing power.Īnyway, I'm mainly just chiming in to extoll the benefits of the Retina screen. This is an interesting conversation - I had only just looked at David's setup and was shocked to realize that he's running the current LPX on a 2013 i5-based machine! I'm a professional designer, so I have the 'luxury' of already requiring a much stronger Mac, but even with my 'baby LPX projects' (I just started with it a few months ago) I occasionally hit playback snags.
