Dear Daniel and the whole team behind Dorico,
I changed from Finale to Dorico in 2018. With all the developments you have made I have been utmostly pleased working with Dorico.
I have learned a lot and also feel that I have gotten always personalized help when in need of advice or help. I am very grateful.
I am a 72 year old Finnish conductor, conducting professor and composer and I use the program a lot.
The situation I’m in now is that I haven’t actually noticed that my MacBook Pro has become quite old - as it’s funcioning perfectly!
I’m at macOS Big Sur 11.7.10 with retina, 15-inch laptop from 2014.
But I think I cannot update to Dorico Pro 6 with this Mac.
Life is what it is so at some point I have to gather the money together to buy a proper new Mac, who knows, maybe my last one…
Just got me a new Cepter to have more screen space and all is great with this combination.
What you have done with the Dorico Pro 5 is great and until I can by the new Mac I work happily with this environment as I can totally trust this version.
My thanks goes to you because of what you have built works fine for me even if I cannot upgrade just yet. You are not pushing me to a difficult situation, I have time to think and plan for this.
I wish you all the best and the strength to keep on doing your marvelous work!
And at least here in Finland, the 1st of May is the day to celebrate the working man.
So cheers!
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That’s amazing feedback! I received one quite alike yesterday, which I’ll probably share with the Team when the times are more placid…
You could perfectly find a refurbished Mac from five years ago at a ridiculous price — I understand ypur situation as I still have a 2013 macbookpro perfectly running. Nonetheless, I will upgrade my (usual) 2019 macbookpro to a M4 machine as soon as I have the money : the bottlenecks will explode ^^
That 2019 macbookpro could probably perfectly match your needs, I’m quite confident you could find one for much less than a thousand euros. And you would feel the difference (try and find a M1 model from 2020 if you can, because the Intel ones are soooo slow)
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Thanks for your lovely feedback, Atso. I’m sorry that the minimum system requirements for Dorico 6 have had to increase, but at least that increase brings tangible benefits – it is mostly driven by the requirements of the underlying Qt framework on which Dorico is built, and we need to keep up-to-date with Qt so that we can properly support the latest operating systems too. The price of progress!
But without using the latest version of Qt, for example, we wouldn’t be able to provide valuable features like support for OpenType features.
Dorico 5 will keep working as well as ever for you, and Dorico 6 will be ready and waiting as and when you have a machine capable of running it.
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Thank you Daniel,
There has to be sometime a real reason for upgrading one’s equipment without too much haste and I see clearly that it has come now.
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