Be on the look out for these if you are interested in investing in a new Mac system.
Some CPUs also have a feature called hyper threading, which effectively doubles the number of cores at your disposal. This will give you plenty of power to process complex tasks in real time, which is what making music in your DAW is all about, computationally speaking. As musicians, we should always be aiming for 6-core and 8-core CPUs, where budget allows. In multiple CPU computers, each is called a core. Most clock speeds on the current Intel Macs are somewhere in the 3.00 – 3.5 GHz range. The CPU is the ‘brain’ of your Mac, and has a clock speed and a number of cores.
