

- Mac pro 5.1 thunderbolt 3 for mac#
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In February 2016 I upgraded the RAM in my Mac Pro to bring it up to 32GB.
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You can read more about the research in my article Review Of Angelbird SSD Drives - Part 1 - Introduction and then how I went about the upgrade process in my article Review Of Angelbird - Part 2 - SSD Wrk For Mac Pro Drive. In January 2016 I replaced the Crucial SSD drive with an Angelbird drive having researched the issue of the TRIM command and that on a Mac platform, not all SSD drives are the same. In February 2014 I upgraded the RAM and another 8GB to bring it up to 24GB. You can read all about it in my story Mike Installs SSD Into His Mac Pro. I installed a Crucial M4 512GB SSD on a special Akasa SSD & HDD Adapter bracket. In April 2013 I added an SSD drive in this machine. Since then I have undertaken a number of upgrades. You can read my story about how I came to choose this system here in the story My Pro Tools 10 HD2 To HDX Upgrade Story. It is a Mid-2010 Mac Pro which I bought in December 2011 when I went HDX as my previous machine would not support HDX cards. I currently have a Mac Pro cheese-grater - 2 x 2.4GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon. In the very near future, I will have to replace this Mac Pro before it fails and leaves me compromised. At some point, it will be detrimental to my studio business, if I continue to ignore the clear signs of a failing Mac. Over the last 12 months, it has started to show some serious signs of ageing, not necessarily in computing power but in everyday performance and reliability. Sadly though, my Mac Pro's service will have to come to an end soon. Over the years I've upgraded the RAM, swapped the hard drives for SSDs, and it also houses my Pro Tools HDX & UAD-2 cards. I replaced it with a newer Mac Pro in 2011 and it is still my main Pro Tools computer and I must say it has served me pretty well. I used this first gen Mac Pro for four years until the logic board failed. At the time I was using a G4 Mirror Door which wasn't quite powerful enough for my Pro Tools LE system so I purchased one of the new Mac Pros. This was a big step up in computer power compared to the outgoing Apple Mac G5.

In 2006 Apple introduced a new flagship powerhouse desktop computer - the Mac Pro. On the team, Mike and Dan still own and run Mac Pro 5.1 Pro Tools computers, with James having recently changed his cheese-grater Mac Pro for a Windows machine. I also dialed Apple support, but they were unable to help up until now, however "trying to find" out since a week or two.In this article, we are going to explore the range of options open to those considering replacing our Apple Mac Pro 5.1 "cheese-grater" computers. There is no option to select anything related to 5.1! (see screenshot below)īasically I have everything to play 5.1 surround sound (incl speakers of course) but I can't "tell" my MacBook Pro to output 5.1 sound. When I open MIDI settings, I can select the TV, but I can only choose between various stereo settings.
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I am unable to play back any 5.1 movie in 5.1 - only 2.1. (I have also tried Mini Toslink directly to the amp - same result)

I am using VLC to play back, but since I can't even get the MacBook to pass 5.1 (see below), this shouldn't be of any relevance? However, I have tried different settings there as well.
Mac pro 5.1 thunderbolt 3 tv#
(I have tested it via this link, opened from my TV ). The amp is rather old, but capable of playing 5.1. My TV is then connected to an amp via the optical audio out from the TV. I have my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018 / macOS Catalina 10.15.4) connected to my Samsung UE55M5522 TV via a Thunderbolt 3 to HDMI adapter.
