Will Designer run on old Macbook?

[David]

My daughter has just been given an old hand me down Macbook Pro core duo, which is 32bit. It has the App store but being 32bit will it run Affinity Designer?

[peter]

Hi David,

 

These are my machine's details:

 

  Model Name: MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,5

  Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

  Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 2

  L2 Cache: 3 MB

  Memory: 4 GB

  Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

  Boot ROM Version: MBP55.00AC.B03

  SMC Version (system): 1.47f2

  Serial Number (system): xxxxxxxxxxxx

  Hardware UUID: xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

  Sudden Motion Sensor:

  State: Enabled

 

 

 

Yes, I have been running AD on my 2009 MBP. Yes I do have Safari freezing now and again and the spinning beachball. so for a seven year old machine I'm not ready to chuck this machine out just yet.

 

HTH

 

peter

[R C-R]

Affinity Designer requires a 64 bit CPU. If the MacBook has a Core Duo processor it is 32 bit. A Core 2 Duo is 64 bit. See Apple's list of CPU types here.

[David]

Ah yes, I just found this on the app store too (see image).

 

[R C-R]

That's where I got the link to the list of CPU types from.  :)

 

(It's the blue "64 bit processor" text.)