
My only concern is that when my track count starts to stack up, my MBP tends to heat up. As of this moment I'm still running on OS X Yosemite.

Fortunately Apple has been kind enough to offer me free repairs for it. Now, a bit of a back story, my MBP has actually died on me twice over the past 5~ years that I've had it. Another one of my favourite go to synths would be Sound Reveal Spire. I mainly produce electronic music, and i tend to rely a lot on Native Instruments plugins as well as their soft synths. I'm about to purchase a Crucial MX300 1TB SSD, and I'm looking to upgrade my OS to run Logic Pro X 10.3.1. Special Reports : CNET's in-depth features in one place.Hey guys, so I'm trying to decide on which OS to run from as I'm going to be performing a long overdue upgrade on my Late 2011 17 inch Macbook Pro. And some Microsoft updates to chips made by AMD reportedly caused some computers to stop working.ĭoes the Mac still matter? Apple execs explain why the MacBook Pro was over four years in the making, and why we should care.

The company is also fighting a perception that the updates will slow computer performance. On Tuesday, Intel called on manufacturers and users to halt some patches to its chips after reports the fixes were causing computers to unexpectedly reboot. The industry-wide effort to patch the design flaws has run into turbulence since the vulnerabilities became public. The Spectre flaw affects chips made by AMD and Arm in addition to Intel chips.Īpple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on why the Sierra and El Capitan updates arrived after the patch to High Sierra. That was shortly after reporters revealed that security researchers found the Meltdown design flaw, along with a similar flaw called Spectre. The patch arrives more than two weeks after Apple updated its most current operating system, High Sierra. Patches to operating systems are one of the key ways to protect computers.

The update means more Mac users will be safe from a vulnerability that affects hundreds of millions of chips made by Intel over the past 20 years. On Tuesday, the company released updates to the Sierra and El Capitan operating systems that will protect users from Meltdown, the design flaw that could let hackers access sensitive information from a computer's processor. You want to stay safe from hackers while still using an older version of Apple's MacOS, the underlying software that runs its laptops and desktops.
