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Need Advice on iMac & MacBook Pro Updates.
Hey everyone,
It’s been a while since I made a new purchase so I really want to make sure I don’t screw it up. I’d very much appreciate any advice from you guys. I currently have a late 2013 iMac with fcpx 10.5.4. Using Catalina 10.15.7 with 3.5 ghz i7. 32 GB DD3, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4 GB, 27 inch iMac. From researching, my understanding is that I can’t update to the newest fcpx 10.6.3 because my iMac is too old to update to the required OS.So…. I’m looking around at slightly used iMAcs as well as used MacBook pros. I’ll do all my primary editing on the iMac but my current MacBook pro is around 15 years old and can’t be used for much of anything (even browsing), so I’m in the market for a laptop as well. I’d like to be able to use the laptop in a pinch for random editing, but I don’t think it’ll happen very often.
All that to say, what spec requirements do you guys suggest for the current landscape of fcpx and moving forward. I definitely want a 27″ iMac versus a smaller one, which might mean I need to get a slightly older one, but I also don’t want to swap out iMacs only to have my “new” iMac age out super quickly as well.
A few questions:
*Is purchasing a used 2015-2017 model a bad idea at this point since it’s not that much newer?
*Can I get away with an i5 processor or should i7 be mandatory.*For my last purchase I made sure to get a graphics card that had at least 4 GB dedicated to it. Is that still wise?
*Same for having 32 GB of memory.Sorry that my knowledge is so out of date at this point. Please feel free to give me any spec tips that you recommend and thank you for your time and expertise!