{"id":26906,"date":"2003-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=26906"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"what-minimum-macos-system-requirements-for-machfive","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/what-minimum-macos-system-requirements-for-machfive\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the minimum MacOS system requirements for MachFive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MachFive requires the following minimum for Mac system?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; a G3\/500 Mhz Power Macintosh or faster; because MachFive is heavily optimized for the Mac Altivec Velocity Engine, a G4\/800mHz or faster is recommended.  <br \/>  Visit www.motu.com for information on G5 compatibility<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A minimum of 256 MB (Megabytes) of RAM is required.  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