Apr 29, 2019 I have a 2nd hand late 2012 Mac mini. It has a 4core i7. I removed the original hard drive and put in a 500 gig SSD plus a 1 TB high-speed hard drive with 16 gigs of RAM. This is working really well with live 9.77. I bought this just before the new minis came out. It cranks along very nicely. I'm just getting into Ableton and I have a 2014 Mac Mini and I'm curious if Ableton Live 10 will run well on it. Mac Specs: 2.8GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5. 1TB Fusion Drive. I plan to use Ableton primarily as a Virtual Instrument platform, but would also like to do some demo recording with it using a Scarlett 2i4 interface.
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