• Avid Media Composer

  which AVID should I buy?

  Posted by Michael Reilly on December 9, 2013 at 7:12 am

  Hey,

  I am looking to purchase an AVID program for my Mac but am not sure which one is best.

  I have an imac g5 from around 2009, with a 3.06 GHz intel core 2 duo

  4 GB of memory (1067 MHz DDR3) and will hopefully upgrade to Mavericks.

  Just want to make sure I get the one that is most compatible with my machine.

  Thanks for your help

  Michael Reilly replied 12 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  John Pale

  December 9, 2013 at 12:26 pm

  Are you sure about your specs?

  The last G5 iMac made was in 2006.

  If you have a G5, you have a PowerPC processor which is incapable of running anything recent.
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  Michael Reilly

  December 9, 2013 at 5:09 pm

  Thanks for responding.

  Yeah I must be wrong then. Just looking at the past iMac models on Apple’s support page. It looks like I have either the iMac 9 or 10.

  Do you know which version of Avid works with that model?

  Thanks for your help
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  Sam Lanes

  December 10, 2013 at 5:18 pm

  The Avid version Matrix should have all the information you need. The Mac info starts about halfway down, with links to lists of which Mac models are supported.

  https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/compatibility/en267087

  everymac.com can be useful for identifying which Mac model you have, too, although its not always straightforward!

  https://www.everymac.com/mac-identification/index-how-to-identify-my-mac.html

  https://www.aefromscratch.com
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  Michael Reilly

  December 10, 2013 at 6:01 pm

  Great, will check this out. Thanks a lot for your help

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