mac Macbook pro 2017 for music production is it worth it?

[nathanpace203]

Hi guys

I am looking at buying a macbook pro for music production and video rendering do you think this spec is capable of doing so

Macbook pro 2017

15" with touch bar and touch id

Core i7 7th gen turbo boost upto 3.6ghz

16gb ddr4 ram

512gb ssd

4gb amd gpu

[DrMacintosh]

If you do want to do these things use Apples Logic and Final Cut for the best experience. I would use external USBC/Thunderbolt drives (like this one) to store mass data so you can save some cash upfront and get the 256GB SSD.  (apparently you can get 512GB minimum lol) 

[nathanpace203]

2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

If you do want to do these things use Apples Logic and Final Cut for the best experience. I would use external USBC/Thunderbolt drives (like this one) to store data so you can save some cash upfront and get the 256GB SSD. 

You have a great point even considering that its 4 times the size and 200$ cheaper

[DrMacintosh]

21 minutes ago, nathanpace203 said:

You have a great point even considering that its 4 times the size and 200$ cheaper

May I ask what kind of video editing you might be doing? You could save a good amount by getting a 13" MacBook Pro instead. If you are doing 1080/1440p editing or even light 4K editing, Final Cut and a Mac similar to this one: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MPXV2LL/A&step=config# will do very well. 

• Touch Bar and Touch ID
• 3.1GHz dual-core 7th-generation Intel Core i5 processor, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz
• 8GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory
• 256GB SSD storage
• Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
• Four Thunderbolt 3 ports

Get that and the external drive I mentioned and that's one banging computer my friend. You can use the difference of what you would have paid to buy Final Cut ,Logic and and adapters you might need.  

[nathanpace203]

10 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

May I ask what kind of video editing you might be doing? You could save a good amount by getting a 13" MacBook Pro instead. If you are doing 1080/1440p editing or even light 4K editing, Final Cut and a Mac similar to this one: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MPXV2LL/A&step=config# will do very well. 

• Touch Bar and Touch ID
• 3.1GHz dual-core 7th-generation Intel Core i5 processor, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz
• 8GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory
• 256GB SSD storage
• Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
• Four Thunderbolt 3 ports

Get that and the external drive I mentioned and that's one banging computer my friend. You can use the difference of what you would have paid to buy Final Cut ,Logic and and adapters you might need.  

I was going to get the other one as it is almost that price and i would like to go that extra push though

[Pendragon]

On 8/7/2017 at 5:36 AM, nathanpace203 said:

I was going to get the other one as it is almost that price and i would like to go that extra push though

depends on your workflow? are you going to be working with other people? what software have you used in the past? what options do you need? advanced color grading? etc etc. If it's for minor edits Macbook will be great. I have 0 clue how good Logic Pro is but that is depedent on what audio software you use and what needs to be generated. 

 

tl;dr depends on your use case. 

[nathanpace203]

2 hours ago, Pendragon said:

depends on your workflow? are you going to be working with other people? what software have you used in the past? what options do you need? advanced color grading? etc etc. If it's for minor edits Macbook will be great. I have 0 clue how good Logic Pro is but that is depedent on what audio software you use and what needs to be generated. 

 

tl;dr depends on your use case. 

Its not alot of video editing tbh just rendering visuals most of the time like 2 to 3 renders a month but not more than 4

[DANIEL MONTEAGUDO]

 

Excuse me, a Macbook pro without 13-inch touch bar, Core i5, 256gb SSD and 16GB of RAM for music production will be more than enough? I will use a lot of sampled instruments like kontakt and many effects, as well as playing live. Will it be more than enough? Of course I would buy an external ssd of 2 tb.