What are your guy's thought's on the mac mini? I was kinda looking into getting one to do small project's on and kinda get used to mac os without having to shell out the cash for a mac pro or macbook pro. what are your guy's thought's on this?
Mac MIni?
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Siguros
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I know some are solid build's but to be honest i don't want to bother with building a hackintosh
Siguros
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It can be fun, get to know your PC a bit more.
But if you have the cash to splash on that tiny little mac mini then go for it, but I don't see spending £500+ to get to know an OS worth it when you can't really upgrade the hardware if you like it.
DavePiatek
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Mac Minis work great for audio, especially the new quad-core ones. Check out the benchmarks:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/21/mac-mini-2011-benchmarks/
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/21/mac-mini-2011-benchmarks/
oh i have built 2 pc's on my own
and i love it. But i am wanting to maybe trying something new for audio. So i figured a mac mini would be nice to practice one.Mac OS X is actually really easy to use and get used to. I had used nothing but Windows for years and years when I got a job at a studio that used nothing but Macs. I bought a PowerBook shortly after starting there and after a day or two I was pretty much fluent on the OS. I'm sure everyone acclimates differently but that was my experience. At any rate, the Minis are cool.
MikeD
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I've got the last generation (the last one to have a CD drive.) I upgraded it to 8gb memory and it works great. Only suggestion I have is that you might want to upgrade to a 7200 rpm hard drive. I find it has trouble reading the disk fast enough on projects with a lot of tracks/audio files.
~M
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TimatWaves
Tim at Waves
Even better for the OS drive http://www.ssd-for-mac.com/
Of course use externals (Glyph etc) for your audio/project drives
Of course use externals (Glyph etc) for your audio/project drives
Rob Logic
yayyyyyy!
I bought a new mac mini server and haven't looked back. Running Logic with a 2626 and it's great.
I contemplated the hackintosh thing but just kept coming back to the fact that every mac i have ever owned worked until i bought an upgrade to replace it and the old ones moved onto the wife who still uses them for Photoshop and stuff. I always used to build computers and just ran into issues here and there. Small maintenance things but I didn't want to deal with it.
I contemplated the hackintosh thing but just kept coming back to the fact that every mac i have ever owned worked until i bought an upgrade to replace it and the old ones moved onto the wife who still uses them for Photoshop and stuff. I always used to build computers and just ran into issues here and there. Small maintenance things but I didn't want to deal with it.
I was just going to ask about the mini server!!! so it work's well as a regular computer? I see people putting up to 16gb's of memory into one and if you can do that with the quad core it seem's like it would be a beast of a small machine
Rob Logic
yayyyyyy!
Yeah. I haven't noticed the difference between it and an iMac over the obvious of no monitor as far as my needs go. If you need a monitor, I think an iMac would be the best value for sure but I still had a perfectly good cinema display left over from my G5 tower so I didn't see the point in getting the iMac. I just wanted the quad i7 and this has got it.
I'm planning on selling my mac mini soon because I'm going to purchase a Macbook Pro. It's this one: http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC816LL/A?
Keep me in mind if you're still looking in a month or so.
Keep me in mind if you're still looking in a month or so.
kaomao
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it's some years I use my mini with PT, it works great!!!
I just need to upgrade from PT 9.0 to latter versions, since PT 9.0 has a bug where it consumes all your memory lol, it doesn't free it up when some plugins are switched off.
I just need to upgrade from PT 9.0 to latter versions, since PT 9.0 has a bug where it consumes all your memory lol, it doesn't free it up when some plugins are switched off.
Boerboel666
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I second the SSD option . Run you Os/Daw plugins on SSD keep all your projects/samples externally , drag your projects in one at a time when you work on them drag them out when finished . Upgrade your you memory and that little Mac mini will punch well above its weight .
