To the iMac users here:)

[classic]

I have seen lots of iMac´s beeing sold.

I am wondering which building year would be a good on to work with the OS that is needed to work with Cubase 14,if at all.

Can anybody help a bit here.
I am in need of a new computer. My on is coming to its limmits with modern plugins at least a few I like to use but can´t.and may be there are i Macs better than my on now or Mac´s in general?

My specs:

Gerätename DESKTOP
Prozessor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz 4.00 GHz
Installierter RAM 16,0 GB
Speicher 932 GB WDC WD10EALX-009BA0, 932 GB SSD SanDisk SSD PLUS 1000GB
Grafikkarte Radeon RX 570 Series (8 GB)
Systemtyp 64-Bit-Betriebssystem, x64-basierter Prozessor

Thanks a lot

[elxsound]

Hey Classic,

If you are looking to pick an M1-M4 iMac, the important thing to consider is the Unified Memory. This is your RAM that is shared with CPU/GPU, so you want lots from the beginning as you will not be able to upgrade the memory at a later time.

Any graphic intensive apps can detract from audio apps that require lots of RAM.

I’m using a Mac Mini, M4 with 24GB of unified memory and sometimes have issues, such as audio dropouts with large Kontakt libraries, if I have too many things open. My old Intel iMac was slower but never had audio dropouts.

[vstdls]

4790K is still a beast in 2025, even if long in the tooth.

You'll get as much of a noticeable upgrade by bumping up to 32gb of ram, (which will cost very very little.) Than you would buying a used iMac.