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I actually develop modern-day plugins on an old Snow Leopard macbook pro, before porting them to other systems and making the more modern, signed, M1-enabled ve

I actually develop modern-day plugins on an old Snow Leopard macbook pro, before porting them to other systems and making the more modern, signed, M1-enabled versions. I've not run across anything that the Snow Leopard box can't handle, at least without expecting to run lots of instances of it. So if you went for a Snow Leopard audio/music machine you'd be in good company :)

LeFantome 4y ago
What are you running for an OS? If it is MacOS, how do any of your apps work? I would not think that even recent web browsers would install on Snow Leopard. I put Linux on old Macs precisely because I cannot go a day on older MacOS without hitting 10 applications whose latest versions I cannot install on MacOS. If you are not having that problem, I would like to know more.
- mixmastamyk 4y ago
  One is able to have more than one computer these days. Not required that an old one do everything.
- Applejinx 4y ago
  Followup post has it figured out. I code initially on the SnowMeow laptop, so I can have retro AUs and VSTs: that also runs an old Parallels which runs a Windows VM and a Linux VM, where those VSTs are made. All that stuff is old, the laptop's air-gapped and never talks to the internet, and I bring the code over on an SD card to the Mac Studio where I do the signed versions of AU and VST, make the videos, etc. I also resist 'latest versions' of things quite hard. Generally that's not what I want. I want stuff where it's working consistently. Even my web browser is a Chromium picked specifically so I can be sure it will get old and go out of date until _I_ have a reason to change it, which will doubtless happen but it'll happen when I want. I can't imagine running Snow Leopard but also feeling like you have to run the newest of everything. It can't even run a remotely current web browser. You have to already have programs that will be exactly what you want and need. Then, you use those and get used to them, like cooking with an old chef's knife you've had for decades :)

LeFantome 4y ago

What are you running for an OS? If it is MacOS, how do any of your apps work? I would not think that even recent web browsers would install on Snow Leopard. I put Linux on old Macs precisely because I cannot go a day on older MacOS without hitting 10 applications whose latest versions I cannot install on MacOS. If you are not having that problem, I would like to know more.

mixmastamyk 4y ago
One is able to have more than one computer these days. Not required that an old one do everything.
Applejinx 4y ago
Followup post has it figured out. I code initially on the SnowMeow laptop, so I can have retro AUs and VSTs: that also runs an old Parallels which runs a Windows VM and a Linux VM, where those VSTs are made. All that stuff is old, the laptop's air-gapped and never talks to the internet, and I bring the code over on an SD card to the Mac Studio where I do the signed versions of AU and VST, make the videos, etc. I also resist 'latest versions' of things quite hard. Generally that's not what I want. I want stuff where it's working consistently. Even my web browser is a Chromium picked specifically so I can be sure it will get old and go out of date until _I_ have a reason to change it, which will doubtless happen but it'll happen when I want. I can't imagine running Snow Leopard but also feeling like you have to run the newest of everything. It can't even run a remotely current web browser. You have to already have programs that will be exactly what you want and need. Then, you use those and get used to them, like cooking with an old chef's knife you've had for decades :)