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  • Mac OSX requirements for MC 6.5

    Posted by Daniel Schultz on February 6, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    I on MC5 and want to upgrade to the latest MC v6.5.
    Can anyone confirm what the minimum Mac OS system requirements are?
    Lion? Mountain Lion?

    Thanks, Dan

    Dan S.

    Robert Ober replied 13 years, 3 months ago 6 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Shane Ross

    February 6, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    I’m using it on Lion 10.7.4…and also on Mountain Lion 10.8.2. Latest version works on Mountain Lion.

    Shane
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  • Michael Phillips

    February 6, 2013 at 10:54 pm
  • Neil Goodman

    February 7, 2013 at 1:46 am

    Lion is the earlist supported. FWIW i did run it on an old 2.1 macpro with snow leapoard on it and it seemed fine. Didnt really get too deep on that config, but didnt run into any problems either.

    Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

  • Kenton Vannatten

    February 7, 2013 at 11:57 am

    Avid provides a Version Matrix in their Knowledge Base.

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


    Kenton Van Natten

  • Robert Ober

    February 7, 2013 at 4:15 pm

    [Neil Goodman] “i did run it on an old 2.1 macpro with snow leapoard on it and it seemed fine.”

    Hey Neil,

    Get Comcast to buy ya a new machine!

    😉

  • Neil Goodman

    February 8, 2013 at 1:26 am

    [Robert Ober] “Hey Neil,

    Get Comcast to buy ya a new machine!

    😉

    hahah no shit right? Thats just the Computer in my office, which ive since upped to lion and upgraded the video card on. MC 6.5.2 is still trucking pretty good on that machine. I mainly use it as Net machine at this point

    All the bays run HP PC’s with MC 5 at the moment, and weve been beggin for a upgrade there too.

    Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

  • Robert Ober

    February 11, 2013 at 5:00 pm

    upped to lion and upgraded the video card on.

    Cool,

    For most projects the 4,1 and later Mac Pro is still fine if you put 24GB RAM and a fast card from macvidcards. Most Mac folks have a SLOW video card compared to the Windows machines and need CUDA thus NVIDIA.

    Thanks for the reply,
    Robert

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