Mixing must be painfully slow on that old CPU. Do you at least have an internal SSD?
I'm a Linux user, as is the wife, so we have far fewer selections. Our bigger projects are put together in BItwig.
I've got an iMac from 2009. It's not th mac pro in which you could swap out components. No SSD. I did max out the ram on the machine now. Runs as it did when it was new, after the ram upgrade. But I'm at least 2 Os updates behind. Can't force the machine anymore without suffering losses I guess.
I don't know about mixing, but I can have ~10-12 tracks all at once, and tracks that I don't use at the moment I can 'freeze' and that frees up resources.
It's not th mac pro in which you could swap out components. No SSD.
You can def replace the drive with an SSD
Have you tried Linux on it?
It'll probably work. I leave it alone, and have the kids learn how to code with Linux on am older laptop
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