Out of curiosity, what version of the OS is that iMac running? Using it as essentially dedicated piece of audio equipment instead of a daily driver would be fine by me. I've done it with the 2012 cheese grater MacPros running 10.6 for eternity essentially as a dedicated video capture device. It just happens to look like a computer, but it remains in use for one singular purpose. No more updates. No WAN access.
I looked it up, it’s 10.3. So, very, very long in the tooth - no longer supported, and even homebrew has given up on it.
So it is essentially just an appliance for the purpose of streaming FireWire audio to disk for use on other systems .. and in that capacity it serves well. But I think I’d like to replace it with a raspberry Pi ..
Yeah, that's pretty much the life of the MacPros I described. The equipment is well paid for, and are only profit makers. They require no IT time. They require no maintenance. To replace them with anything else will cost money, and time retraining muscle memory on how to operate new device. Plus, all of the quirks of the new device would need to be caught/learned and workflows updated to include these.
It’s an ancient iMac from 2011, so whatever is the last supported version from Apple .. it never gets updates. (Don’t have it handy at the moment to find the exact version, sorry..)
Yeah, its just a dedicated DAW in the rig, used only for recording multiple tracks for later transfer to other modern machines for further work ..
