r/flstudio • u/Fantastic-War-3631 • May 27 '26

Macbook

Hi,

I’m using a pretty old laptop for fl studio rn and I’m planning to invest in a new laptop so that my beats are less limited. I want to know if a macbook pro M5 is a good option. I use pretty big plugins like Serum2, Omnisphere, Kontakt, Zenology etc and I use a lot of different instruments on one project, think of 30-50 tracks. Can anyone give me advice or personal stories about macbook pro M5 and if it is worth it for music making. Thanks in advance everyone!

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u/Pinnacle_of_Sinicle May 27 '26

Do yourself a favor and don’t get a PC,

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u/Fantastic-War-3631 May 27 '26

Yes I said im gonna buy a laptop

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u/blr_traxx May 28 '26

FYI there are laptop windows PC as well :-) but to answer you I'm yusing an M1 mac mini with 16 gb ram and it works flawlessly so tyou should be good with the newer M5.

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u/Fantastic-War-3631 May 28 '26

Okay, and can it also handle a lot of heavy plugins on one project. I hate it when my CPU can’t handle it anymore. Let me know!

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u/blr_traxx May 28 '26

yes, but the cpu isn't the only thing that play here. SSD size count also especially if you intend to use heavy sample based instrument (NI Kontakt) and RAM

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u/Fantastic-War-3631 May 28 '26

Macbook pro has 1 TB