Sticking with what's popular you can't go wrong and save money in the process getting a refurbished Mac Book Pro. The iMac and Mac Pros are too damn $$, which basically leaves the iMac, Mac Mini, and Macbook Pro. The Macbooks and Macbook Airs are fairly under powered. There's a bunch to rule out such as the cheapest and most expensive. This aside stick to what's currently for sale, but everything for sale isn't worth buying for music production. Besides the new Apple Credit card allows for interest free monthly payments. My mid 2011 iMac is still going strong but I figured it was better to upgrade now and sell it for some $$ than to keep holding on until it won't run. Apple expects the shift to be fully on board with their new processors to take 2 years so if you really need a new mac as I did don't hold out. And this pertains to software, not hardware. If you're making music you don't want to be an early adopter, you're asking for headaches.

Even with the release it will be with the latest OS and you don't want to be an early adopter in the music field with Apple's latest and greatest because music software is not instantly available, tested, and fully ready. They aren't out yet and are rumored to be this fall.Ģ. That's a fair question but it's still too early.ġ.