

Benchmarks show it should be able to run around 120 tracks. I don’t know how many tracks this computer can run, because I haven’t run into any glitches. The following Benchmarks show this is about right.Īfter hours of research, I upgraded to a 2009 Mac Pro with 12 Core Intel Xeon X5650 2670 MHz, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. I could get a few more tracks by Freezing, but no more than 20. At around 15 tracks, things would begin to get glitchy.

The Mac Pro 5,1 used the same interior design but received further CPU updates in 20.

When running Logic Pro, I was able to run 15-20 tracks. The Early 2009 Mac Proalso known as the Mac Pro 4,1introduced Intel's Nehalem architecture to Apple's line of professional desktop computers in March 2009. These are the maximum specs this machine can accommodate. The old machine I had been using was a 15-inch Early 2010 MacBook Pro with a 2 Core Intel Core i5-540M 2530 MHz, 8GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. Long story short, a 2009-2010 Mac Pro is well worth it, if you can find one at the right price. Is a 2009-2010 classic Mac Pro a viable music production computer in 2016? What kind of results can we expect from a 6-7 year old computer? What are the pros and cons as well as the costs of a buying this machine? These are a few of the questions I’ll be tackling in this article.
