Woah, somehow I didn't know they did 7200 bus powered drives! Gotta get me one!
On 4/5/11, Frank Carmickle <fr...@carmickle.com> wrote: > Hi > > On Apr 5, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > Snip... >> Tricky to say whether a Mac mini would do the job without knowing what >> you record. If you can give us more of an idea of where you're headed >> with PT once you've made the switch, we'll probably be able to help >> more. >> > > I'd say a mac mini isn't the best thing. It is definitely a lot cheeper. I > think the sweet spot right now is the 13 inch MBP with the 2.7 dual core i7. > Remember you can't run a mac mini with out a monitor. I was hoping I > could. I've run my linux boxes for years with out monitors. The mini only > comes in a 2.66 core 2 duo as the fastest chip. The change to the i3/i5/i7 > architecture alone is a major jump in performance per clock cycle. I'm sure > that you would be alright with a mac mini until you got in to running lots > of demanding plugins. I just went and priced the mac mini at the apple > store. With 8 gb of ram the 2.66 chip it's $1149. I'm pretty sure that the > internal disk, which is a 320 gb, is a 5400 rpm. Applications will load > pretty slowly. My wife has last years mac mini and it doesn't bother her to > much. Just depends on what your willing to put up with. A MBP 13 will the > 2.7 and 8 gb of ram will run you just over 2k. > > > > > >> Yup, tracking to an external drive is always recommended. Firewire has >> better thruput than USB2 even if the latter seems faster on paper in >> terms of transfer rates, so go for an external Firewire drive. Make >> sure it's running at at least 7200 rpm (most of the desktop drives >> that are externally powered do), and you should be good to go. > > You don't need to get a externally power 3.5 drive. The bus powered 7200 > rpm 2.5 firewire 800 drives are great. > > HTH > --FC > >
