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I have a friend in audio production whose apple laptop is showing its age. He wants to get another laptop and has to have 1 thunderbolt port. He's not wanting anything too expensive. Are there any cheaper laptops that have a type c thunderbolt?

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I don't really know that those exsist, TB seems to be an at least semi-premium feature. Just be aware that some thunderbolt 1/2 audio devices don't work seamlessly with adapters and Windows. Thunderbolt didn't really seem to go mainstream before TB3.

 

One example: https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207355215-Clarett-Windows-Compatibility

 

Which audio interface is he using? And how old is his mac really? If it's older than 2013/2014 (I don't remember excactly) he may be able to upgrade certain components in it, actually.

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Laptops with TB3 are not cheap. Cheapest ones I can think are Lenovo Yoga 720 13 and Dell 7577.

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Universal Audio, 2012 dual core i5. He's replaced the HDD with a SSD and upgraded to 16 GB ram, but now it's starting to slow down real bad. Whenever he remembers to bring it to me I will check and see if a good cleaning does it, but i'm guessing it's just the CPU showing it's age, might he be able to upgrade the processor?

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System overload alerts in Logic Pro X
This is the kind of alert he's getting, ecen when doing basic workloads

He's tried all the steps in the following troubleshooting link

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203930

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12G1VTFWkTL5tb8nxUAtnDHwTLyya9I3Vw-OXXrIN4e4/edit#gid=934244290

^ go over this list. 

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10 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12G1VTFWkTL5tb8nxUAtnDHwTLyya9I3Vw-OXXrIN4e4/edit#gid=934244290

^ go over this list. 

Thanks!

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