My Mac Is Too Old For Garageband
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Hello everybody and greetings from Germany,
I´ve been wondering if the 2013 Macbook Air 13' i5 is powerful enough for some hobby music production with Garageband once in a while. I record vocals, guitars and a few other instruments. My first mac ever was the low end 2012 Macbook Pro 13' that I upgraded to 16 GB of Ram. With that computer Garageband was usable but I experienced a few lags once in a while. Also one or two crashes occurred. Even though I could easily restore these files it was annoying and I wasn´t expecting that from apple. Due to some life changes I sold the macbook pro and bought the 2012 iMac 21,5' with 8GB of Ram, i5 and 1 TB fusion drive. I absolutely fell in love with this machine and Garageband works absolutely flawless, maybe because of the quad core processor? I´ve been owning the iMac for almost a year but now I´m facing another new situation in life where I need a portable computing device. So time has come to sell the iMac and get a macbook. The macbook equivalent to my current iMac would be the 15' Macbook Pro Retina but because I´ll be traveling a lot I don´t want to carry around a 2000€ device. Also the 15' would be too heavy and big. A 13' version that comes close to the iMac in terms of power and capacity would be the 13' Macbook Pro Retina with 512GB SSD, 8GB or even 16GB of Ram and the i7 processor. Again, I don´t want to carry around a 2000€ device.
So now I wonder if a Macbook Air 13' would suit my needs if I just took the 256GB SSD Model with 8GB of ram and i5 processor. I would get an external hard drive so I´d be okay with the 256GB. I usually just browse the web, check emails but also play a few old (!) games on a windows partition and record some music once in a while.
What do you think? Is the Macbook Air powerful enough for those needs or would I be struggling with some tasks? I hope you can help me decide.
Best regards,
Patrick.
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The latest GarageBand is a full music creation studio just inside your Mac. It has percussion and orchestral instrument, synths, keyboard, presets for voice and guitar and a new designed sound library with virtual session drummers. The intuitive and beautiful interface it has makes it easy to play, learn. Dec 11, 2017 Under 'Apps Using iCloud,' turn off GarageBand. You won't be able to access any GarageBand songs stored in iCloud Drive until this issue is fixed, but they won't be removed from iCloud. New songs will be saved to your device. Apple is aware of the issue, and is investigating solutions.
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