foto-grafic Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Good morning, I would like some advice I could buy an Imac 27' late 2013 with OSX Catalina 10.15 at an advantageous price; I admit that I am not familiar with the Mac environment. the question is: Do Affinity software run well with OSX Catalina or do you advise against buying it? Thank you very much... P.S. The computer in question has an i7 3.5GHz 4-Core processor, 16 GB ram, HD Fusion 1 TB and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M – 2GB video card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Depends on for what you would use it personal mainly for and of course the overal price of it, as the whole hardware & software is macOS wise outdated and no longer upgradable (obsoleted). - So it should be clear that at a long view this mac hardware/OSX software has no future and thus will lack any Apple macOS software updates (also OS security wise). Oufti 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foto-grafic Posted August 23, 2023 Author Share Posted August 23, 2023 @v_kyr Thanks for the time you dedicated to me and for the balanced and technical advice, I greatly appreciated it. I mainly work on windows as photo editing and wanting to get closer to the Mac world I was tickled by the price (€300.00) and the fact that the machine seemed perfect to me in terms of functioning and aesthetics. Thank you again for the active and collaborative advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oufti Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 7 hours ago, foto-grafic said: The computer in question has an i7 3.5GHz 4-Core processor, 16 GB ram, HD Fusion 1 TB and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M – 2GB video card. Intrinsically it was a good machine, this one with a very correct equipment for its time. It is perfectly usable as it is but, as said above, forget about any OS update (even if it's feasible with patches). For that price, I would expect to use it at least a year in order to justify its buying. And if I could keep it two years, I would find it a winning bargain. You have yet to take into account that 10 years is already a long lifetime wether for an SSD or a HD, and because in a Fusion Drive both are intricate in a complex logical store, if only one drive fails you lose all your data. (DriveDX could give you an enlightening analysis of its state.) Mention of Fusion Drive's data losses for this generation of Mac are not uncommon on forums… Thus it is advised, more strongly than ever, to have an efficient constant backup solution. Apple's Time Machine does that very well, for free — but use it! Quote Affinity Suite 2.5 – Monterey 12.7.5 – MacBookPro 14" 2021 M1 Pro 16Go/1To I apologise for any approximations in my English. It is not my mother tongue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foto-grafic Posted August 23, 2023 Author Share Posted August 23, 2023 @Offi Thank you very much, on this forum always ready to help with professionalism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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