Hi!
An Audio Engineer friend of mine has been following this discussion and
sends comments regarding Kelly's statement below and Mini PC machines thus.
<snip>
Hmm; ignoring all the emotive garbage, there *is* at least *some* truth
to the statement, inasmuch as the I5 isn't a patch on the I7: no
hyperthreading and (I believe) limited virtualisation. But you'd have
to be doing something pretty damned extreme (dozens of plugins and God
knows how many parallel tracks) to see the difference for standard audio
editing. Somehow, I don't think SoundForge is going exactly to behave
much differently. :D The shot about Macs being overpriced for their CPU
power is far more true for Australia, where PCs are so cheap compared
e.g. to the U.K. or U.S.. You really can get some very nice little
mini-PCs here that are cheaper than a Mac, and probably far more
powerful (I7, 4GB RAM and all Intel boards. Go to the U.K. or U.S.
though, and things are very different.
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Go Figure <smile>.
On 16/11/2014 6:35 AM, Kelly Pierce wrote:
It is an i5, which sucks for audio editing. It is doable, but not as
responsive as an i7. I can understand your interest in this machine.
Macs are overpriced and underpowered compared to high performance
Windows machines.
Kelly
On 11/15/14, Kulvinder Bhogal <kbhog...@btinternet.com> wrote:
I have configured my Mac as it goes. Smiles.
Regards.
Kulvinder
On 15 Nov 2014, at 15:03, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:
Interesting you took it that way as its vastely different from a Mac mini,
try configuring a Mac Mini yourself and see how you get on <smile>.
The only similarity between the Nuc and the Mac Mini are the size of the
machines really, even the entry level Mac Mini is more expensive than a
Nuc though having said that the Mac Mini is pretty much read to go out of
the box, all the user need do is set up keyboard and display.
There are other computers similar in size to the Nuc and Mac Mini and
perhaps the most famous of these is the Samsung Chromebox.
I bought one about a year ago and I won't go on about it here because it
really doesn't have any audio qualities worth speaking of apart from a
headphones socket and it can play audio but its not the power house like a
Nuc or a Mac Mini, the Chromebox relies totally on Google to run.
On 16/11/2014 1:41 AM, Kulvinder Bhogal wrote:
I was simply going by the fact that this is made to look like a Mac Mini
and that is all. Smiles.
Regards.
Kulvinder
On 15 Nov 2014, at 10:19, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net>
wrote:
These machines are no pretenders, they’re proper Intel machines, much
the same as your Desktop or Notebook but one hell of a lot smaller,
perfect as the audio/video hub in your lounge room because of their
size, put them literally anywhere, can you imagine a desktop machine
taking up room in your family living area which could otherwise be
occupied by seating, coffee tables or whatever other comforts and
furniture a lounge room has these days?
On 15 Nov 2014, at 8:37 pm, Kulvinder Bhogal <kbhog...@btinternet.com>
wrote:
Here here.
Very well said. Why buy a pretender.
Regards.
Kulvinder
On 15 Nov 2014, at 01:33, Mary Otten <maryot...@comcast.net> wrote:
Seems too expensive for something you have to add lots of things to,
like your ram and storage. Buy the Mini and be done with it.
Mary
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