On 4 Apr 2015, at 6:53 pm, Christopher-Mark Gilland
<clgillan...@gmail.com <mailto:clgillan...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Anders,
Oh my heavens, yes! The new mac mini's are incredibly! and I do mean
incredibly! well priced. If memory serves correct, an I5 4GB ram,
5200RPM mac mini is somewhere in the ballpark of $580 before tax.
And yes, it would come with Yosemite. Now, beware, it doesn't come
with a monitor, speakers, a mouse, or keyboard. You'd have to buy
those separetly, however, you can get a fairly decently cheap monitor
for just over $100. In fact, what I've! actually done is to get a
cheap little flat pannel television with HDMI. Then, I just ran the
mac directly into it, then set the source on the TV to HDMI, and
boom! There you go! A very nice monitor, and, the sound audio even
will be piped through the TV speakers, eliminating the need for
seperet PC speakers. Now, that said, if you're gonna do audio
production stuff, I don't know how serious you are about that side of
music production, but if you're a pro, like me, then obviously,
you're going to want to get a higher end audio interface, and maybe
even a control surface. The surface isn't required, but it certainly
bigtime will help. The interface however would almost definitely be
a given. One interface I really really love, it's not being made any
longer, but search Amazon, or EBay or the like, as I'm positivbe! you
could find one still new unboxed, is the M-Audio Fasttrack C400.
It's even very portable and quite accessible. If you find one, I'd
be happy to help you set it up over Facetime, Skype, or the like. It
would be a pleasure to do so. Also, obviously, if you're really
serious about this, I'd look into a pare of good studio monitors.
It really does just depend on how far you want to take things.
Then, of corse, though Logic X is doable, dont' get me wrong, the
accessibility isn't probably going to be the most ideal. Let me be
very clear, so I don't get my ass kicked. Logic does? work, yes,
but! you will be somewhat limited.
Though way more expensive, I'll admit, ProTools definitely! is the
way you'd wanna go.
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anders Holmberg"
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Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 7:08 AM
Subject: Bying a new mac.
Hi!
I am about to buy a new mac soon this year.
But i really don't know what to buy which fits my needs.
I will search for some funding to have the ability to buy a new one.
So i guess there wont be no mac pro which anyway is a bit overkill
even though it could be cool to have one.
And i am totally blind so i don't need the imac with retina support.
What i want is a computer for mail, internet and some music production.
Will a new mac mini be enough for music production or should i stick
with a macbook pro?
I really need some suggestions even though i know its hard to help.
I now have a mac mini mid 2011 which ofcourse begins to be a bit
oldish.
The new upcomming macbook seems to be a bit to much for the money i
think.
So please help.
Thanks in advance.
/A
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