Veryspeed Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 I know the tech specs say 4GB RAM minimum but I would like to know whether the Logic Pro X installer prevents you from installing on a 2GB RAM machine? Or if Logic Pro X will not open on a 2GB RAM machine? I don't want to install anything new on my stable Mac in my studio, but I'd love to install Logic Pro X on an older MacBook Pro (it is recent enough to be within the tech specs of Logic Pro X except for the amount of RAM). I'm not intending to produce music with it, just to get a feel for it for now, and get familiar with it before I upgrade the main studio Mac. Thanks guys!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beej Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 I'm not sure even Lion or ML will run with only 2GB of ram, let alone running a big app inside it! Lion is hitting the swap space on a machine with 4GB just by running a few small apps... The Logic installer will likely have a 4GB minimum system requirement - you'd have to edit this before the installer will pass the system requirement checks. No guarantee how it will run though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veryspeed Posted July 18, 2013 Author Share Posted July 18, 2013 Thank you for your lightning fast answer Beej!! Moutain Lion's official minimum requirements state 2GB of RAM. http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/ Keep in mind: I don't care if the machine is very sluggish, I just want to get a feel for LPX really, and get to learn the new features. I wonder what you meant by "you'd have to edit this before the installer will pass the system requirement checks."? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beej Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 See here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=97166 There is an installer file that dictates what the system requirements are. If this says 4GB, and you only have 2, the installer will not continue. You'd need to edit the installer file to say it needs 2GB, then the installer will finish... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veryspeed Posted July 19, 2013 Author Share Posted July 19, 2013 ah okay great information, thank you for sharing it beej! Very helpful to me right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veryspeed Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 Well thanks again for the help beej. I ended up finding that there was nothing to modify: Logic X installed and opened and runs just fine on my Mac with 2 GB of RAM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beej Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Well there you go! RAM is relatively inexpensive though, so maybe you should be kind to your machine rather than running it that lean... your performance will improve for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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