- #MID 2014 MACBOOK PRO 13 VS 2019 DRIVERS#
- #MID 2014 MACBOOK PRO 13 VS 2019 UPDATE#
- #MID 2014 MACBOOK PRO 13 VS 2019 WINDOWS 10#
- #MID 2014 MACBOOK PRO 13 VS 2019 SOFTWARE#
Their 2014 iteration is no exception, with a variety of features and sizes to choose from, it is difficult to make an informed choice. It's getting really frustrating.Apple has a huge range of products and few are more variable than the MacBook Pro.
#MID 2014 MACBOOK PRO 13 VS 2019 DRIVERS#
Just to make things even more difficult to understand, I tried it out with a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 using supplied drivers and ASIO4ALL and again, the 2014 Mac i 7 quad core smoked my 2019 i9 pc. So that pretty much rules out any issues with thermal throttling. Incidentally, I ran Cinebench R20 on it, just to check the CPU is running as it should be - got a pretty fantastic result from that, basically three times faster at rendering than my mac. I'm not going to mess around turning that off - I'm going to be running Ableton for hours every day, and don't want to leave myself totally exposed.
#MID 2014 MACBOOK PRO 13 VS 2019 SOFTWARE#
There's no additional antivirus software other than Windows Defender running on it. I tried turning off Wifi after latencymon showed potential issue with it. Might want to also disable wifi and antivirus to see if that helps. The power plan is the biggest tweak though but making sure you have updated drivers mainly for your interface and video card can help too. Probably more than 4-6 cores can be overkill for DAWS and I heard of a few people getting very high core machines and being disappointed.įocusrite has a good article on tweaking Windows 10. Single Core performance is a big factor with DAWS, as DAWS usually have to run at low agencies compared to other applications.
I9s are not always better than i7s especially when it comes to DAW performance. So what do you think - is this par for the course when it comes to Macs vs PCs in 2019? Are five year old Macs with significantly slower CPUs and less memory twice as powerful as top end Windows laptops? Surely not. I was using the same iConnect Audio interface with both computers, the PC using ASIO drivers and Mac Core Audio. I tried the same track on my Mid 2014 Mackbook Pro 15 i7 quad core with 16gb RAM, and the CPU was stable around 15%! Sheesh.
#MID 2014 MACBOOK PRO 13 VS 2019 WINDOWS 10#
So I just bought a Windows 10 laptop - top end i9 9980hk hexacore, 32gb RAM, and when i run the Ableton 10 demo track the CPU if flying all over the place, starting at about 19% and peaking at up to 35%. I wonder if anyone can advise me if the following is indicative of a problem that can be solved with tinkering, or just the way it is and something I've got to take on the chin. It might reveal something that's causing a problem. If you've not already done it download and run latencymon.exe. I don't know if it's still an issue, but switching off core parking made quite a difference to my Windows DAWs as did switching off most of the C sleep states in the BIOS.
#MID 2014 MACBOOK PRO 13 VS 2019 UPDATE#
Theoretically it's much less powerful than the PC it replaced but I can't say I've seen much real world performance drop other than the lack of a dedicated graphics card and having to sort out Live 10's strangely heavy loading of the WindowServer.Ĭore Audio/MIDI is way easier to deal with than Windows, even if Apple dropped the ball badly on the initial release of Mojave and the T2 chips have also had USB audio related issues which required an OS update to fix as well. I kind of went the opposite way to you, my lat Windows PC/DAW decided to die from an unknown ailment and I spotted this refurbed Mid 20134 Retina MBP on Apples website for about the same price as building a complete PC would have cost me, thought "why not" and grabbed it. Having said that, Macs (and Linux machines) generally seem to use fewer resources running the operating system than Windows PCs. I would expect a fast i9 to be noticeably quicker than an i7, especially an i7 from several years ago.