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Which older Mac for Tidal streaming?
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<blockquote data-quote="sajunky" data-source="post: 1059764" data-attributes="member: 22308"><p>Apple is only for people who can afford it. It is like buying a Porshe for driving kids to/from school. Buy it new and lose 30% of investment while leaving a garage. Golf GTi will do the same job and has a higher suspension, better to deal with road bumpers. Your OP is formulated properly, but still not answered.</p><p></p><p>For a job as described, Mac with expensive high resolution screen is an overkill. There is only one case you would need a MAC - Apple music streaming. I would wait and see whether there is an app on Windows or a workaround. By example, there is the app on Android, I would investigate such option, i.e. an inexpensive Android based laptop or tablet, but the best would be a DAP with a bit-perfect output to an external DAC.</p><p></p><p>As for used MAC, chose one with a socketted RAM and (especially) a main storage. SSD's regularly fail after few years and repair is extremely difficult. Stay away from early MBP with USB type C power supply, it has very poor reputation, using buggy USB power delivery chipsets, failure rate was high due to the random overheating during a boot. It was an introduction to the 2013 Touchbar disease which I am more familiar with.</p><p></p><p>In other words, anything before USB powered MAC should be fine, you need to check whether your apps would run on the older OS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sajunky, post: 1059764, member: 22308"] Apple is only for people who can afford it. It is like buying a Porshe for driving kids to/from school. Buy it new and lose 30% of investment while leaving a garage. Golf GTi will do the same job and has a higher suspension, better to deal with road bumpers. Your OP is formulated properly, but still not answered. For a job as described, Mac with expensive high resolution screen is an overkill. There is only one case you would need a MAC - Apple music streaming. I would wait and see whether there is an app on Windows or a workaround. By example, there is the app on Android, I would investigate such option, i.e. an inexpensive Android based laptop or tablet, but the best would be a DAP with a bit-perfect output to an external DAC. As for used MAC, chose one with a socketted RAM and (especially) a main storage. SSD's regularly fail after few years and repair is extremely difficult. Stay away from early MBP with USB type C power supply, it has very poor reputation, using buggy USB power delivery chipsets, failure rate was high due to the random overheating during a boot. It was an introduction to the 2013 Touchbar disease which I am more familiar with. In other words, anything before USB powered MAC should be fine, you need to check whether your apps would run on the older OS. [/QUOTE]
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