Hello, what would be better to use with Logic Pro 11, the Mac Mini M2 Pro 10 CPU 16 GPU 16 GB RAM or the Mac Mini M4 10 CPU 10 GPU 16 GB RAM only taking into account the power required to record my own songs?

The two options have very similar prices in Mexico thanks

  • same price, get the M4 :)

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    Sounds good thanks

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  • Since we have no idea what your creative goals are, expectations, or what you mean by ‘best’ any answers we give will be arbitrary and probably not useful at all …

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    I want to record my own songs with pure virtual instruments and effects included in Logic Pro 11 and use Dubler 2 and Scaler 3 since I do not have theoretical knowledge or know how to play instruments and also use artificial intelligence to help me generate the arrangements

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    You should get the most processor cores you can afford.

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    I have seen both options at a very similar price, thank you for your response.

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  • M4 without a doubt. The extra GPU cores won't make any difference in Logic Pro performance.

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    My doubt is mostly based on the fact that the M2 Pro has more performance cores and Logic Pro 11 only takes advantage of the performance cores and does not use the efficiency cores

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    Ah I did not notice it was M2 Pro vs. M4.

    I'd probably still go with M4 just to have a more modern architecture.

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  • I'm not an expert enough to go into details for you, but if you haven't already, go to everymac.com and compare the two machines. You can see their stats side by side and get an idea.

    My guess is the M4 will be the 'faster' machine at this point, but I'd bet both machines would be more than enough to run Logic just fine for some years to come. For instance, I just this year got rid of my 2015 iMac i7 and that was handling everything fine (except for updates, of course).

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    Thanks for the information

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  • Depending on the type of music you do, 16GB RAM might be low. For example if you use a lot of sample libraries like orchestral music, you might need 32GB+, but for most regular music 16GB is fine.

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    It's for pop rock, acoustic pop, funk rock, synthpop, contemporary r&b with some supporting incidental string and brass parts

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    It’s the sample libraries that eat up the RAM, and it depends on the library, but the spitfire Abby Road for example is notorious for using massive amounts of RAM, as in 32GB isn’t even enough. If you are using Logic’s synth presets that just sound like strings you won’t have to worry about the RAM, but just one note of some sample libraries can load up 37 samples into RAM.

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    That information is very revealing, thank you very much.

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  • Don't worry about it and get the M4. All things being equal, you almost always get the newer chip.

    But one thing I've thought about a lot lately, how much internal storage, if one has 256gb and one has 512, I'd get the 512. People have talked about samples, samples and plugins can take up a lot of space. You can put some stuff on an external ssd, but lately I like to keep mine all in the MacBook, but that's just me.

    You should be fine with either one.

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  • M4, but you should definitely explore to see if you can get an M1 Max 32 GB RAM. I think it may be around same price, and the extra RAM would be worth it long term

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  • Can you purchase in the States?

    Best Buy the M4 is $100 off

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    Yes, but it costs the same or more because I have to pay shipping

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    What if you have it shipped to someone in the States…then they send it to u

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