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Best to upgrade to OS X Big Sur on Mid-2015 Macbook Pro?
I have a mid-2015 Macbook Pro (Catalina) that has a faulty keyboard and is experiencing all kinds of performance issues, especially overheating (the kernel task is often >100% when the room gets even slightly warm). Also a few peculiarities in Premiere Pro while rendering or sometimes refusing playback (sometimes I get a yellow missing media message for a split second before playback begins).
These I might attack individually and consider whether my external USB and Thunderbolt media drives might be contributing.
However, I have been given a used (but not AS USED) Mid-2015 Macbook Pro. I intend to install Adobe Creative Cloud on it and I am eager to compare — but compare what? It is currently running Yosemite, but for an apples-to-apples comparison I should upgrade to Catalina, and the Adobe site says that the minimum OS X should be Big Sur. The conventional knowledge is that newer operating systems are designed to use more resources (that may already be the case as I am running Catalina).
Should I try Premiere Pro on Yosemite first?
Should I compare the similar-vintage Macbook Pros on Catalina?
Is it always best to meet Adobe’s minimum requirements and expect that Big Sur will provide the best possible results?replied 3 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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Hey Raymond,
Although on a FCPX project at the time, I had similar problems on an old Mac-Book Pro. To a point where I was playing digital-Russian-r0ulette up to a late transmission dead-line, with no engineering support at hand.
When the MacBook had gone black screen 6 times, with only a “cold-start” to bring it back to life. I stopped the edit, gave producer an exported master and suggested that any minor imperfections should be ignored or we might lose the project all together (I did have a back-up plan, but we had a deadline).Obviously both Apple and Adobe will want you to run on the latest working version of their software, which may not possible because of hardware limitations.
You are not sharing any details about your hardware.
But I would suggest that you check following:
How much RAM do you have? (Less than 16GB is IMHO not good – 32GB or 64GB is better)
How much space do you have on your main drive? (And is it SSD or Hard-disk?)
Where is your media, on a SSD or Hard-Drive and what is the connection? (USB 2 or)
Then there is the size of the project and media – you may want to consider breaking it down to smaller projects, and certainly trash the preferences to see if that helps.If possible, it might even be worth swapping it for a Mac Mini or similar – Mac Mini will need a monitor, but the cost and performance of that up against an old MacBook means that in productivity it will be paid off in no time.
Hopefully this was helpful.
Atb
Mads
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