With the advent of Apple’s new M1, M2 and now M3 chips, you may be wondering what the best Mac for music production is, or indeed the best Macbook for music production if you are looking for a more portable, on-the-go option.
While computing power has certainly come a long way, the demands of modern music production have increased dramatically as well. There are four main considerations when choosing the right Mac or Macbook Pro for music production:
- Processor
- RAM
- Hard drive
- Connections, including number and type of USB, firewire, thunderbolt and/or HDMI ports
Fortunately, unless you plan on video editing or gaming, the graphics card in the machine is less important. You can therefore save the hassle of looking for a high specification graphics solution. You may need to bear in mind the number of monitors which can be connected to the Mac or Macbook and we will cover this later in the article.
