27" iMac 2020

[CC Music]

Hi

My current set up which is: - 27” iMac running OS Sequoia V 15.5 (22D68)- 3.3 GHz Intel Core i5 - 128GB RAM - Serial Number C02DQ5HSPN5V

I need to upgrade my 12 year old MacBook Pro to a shiny MacBook Air with the M4 chip, with 24GB RAM. I realise I’m able network the 2 Macs but can I still utilise my iMac with its 128GB RAM as the lead/main desktop?

Is this the best way forward?

Thanks in advance

 

[MacsBug]

This will depend on what you do, and which machine you prefer to work on for individual tasks.

One thing that I would recommend though is to upgrade the RAM in the MacBook Air to 32GB.

 

[CC Music]

Thanks so much for your reply.

I’m a freelance professional music arranger/composer. I’ve have 3 external SSDs -SanDisk SSD 1 x 1TB & 1 x 2TB & 1 Samsung SSD x 4TB. I’ve various flavours of sample libraries from Spitfire, East West, Native Instruments, Kontakt etc. stored on the SSDs, there's another 2 other storage devices I utilise for additional backups plus 2 monitors, all this is connected/plumbed into my iMac. Because I have 2 monitors I’m pretty sure that I’d like to keep the iMac for the one I’d rather work on.
Thanks for the heads up on the 32RAM, point taken - My techie mentor always told me that I should really get as much RAM is I could afford!

Thank you again.