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On Oct 22, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Stephen Martin wrote: I owned the current Gen server model of the mini for a couple weeks like i said before, and the sluggish without a monitor issue didn't seem to exist with that one. You did run safari? That's where you really notice the issue. I have a 2009 mini and I can confirm that this is an issue on snow leopard. I haven't tried it on lion. Maybe it's a lion fix? I also remember hearing from a number of sources before purchasing mine that that issue was no longer with current gen mini's. The Mini is definitely portable enough to take to a gig and etc. The downside to a mini is no battery power option. Also remember if you guys plan to extend your apple care protection plan past the 1 year that comes with your mac then be care flu about upgrading after market. If apple didn't upgrade the internals or you didn't get the ram from apple and install it yourself, they won't even look at your machine when you try to get it serviced. So if you put after market parts in there, put the originals back in before taking it back in for servicing or before the tech shows up at your house.The only negative i have heard about swapping out your optical drive for another internal Hard drive on the laptops is it adds more weight to the machine. No complains about it overheating or anything like that. This is not what I was told by a Apple repair person. In fact I had the optical drive die in my 2010 mbp two months after I bought it. I had changed out the 2 gb sticks for 4 gb ones and had put an SSD in where there once was a 5400 rpm drive. They opened the machine put a new drive in and had me out of the store in 20 minutes with only having to sign once that the service had been performed. THese same people assured me when I purchased the mbp that I would be able to put the components in the unit that I wanted and unless one of those components was at fault they would fix the problem. HTH --FC > On Oct 22, 2011, at 4:19 PM, J. R. Westmoreland wrote: > >> I am just saying what I read that the 7200 drives, at least in my Mac Book, >> weren't recommended. That seemed strange to me as well so I tried it and it >> works fine. >> I can't speak to the two drive issue. That one, it seems to me, could >> definitely cause a heating issue. The HD runs much warmer than an optical >> drive and for a longer amount of time. >> Remember there are no fans for cooling in the Mac Book Pro. >> >> Now, if I could find a mixing surface for 8 channels that was as light as my >> Mac Book Pro then I'd really have something. LOL >> >> Best, >> J. R. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Nickus de Vos >> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 1:17 PM >> To: Pro Tools Accessibility >> Subject: Re: Ideal mac for recording/editing/mixing >> >> Just did a bit of reading on Kevin's 3rd party DIY upgrade idea. I always >> thought there's something special to apple memory but turns out they use >> normal memory mostly samsung and hynix not even kingston and I'm a huge fan >> of kingston ram. As for the hard drives looks like they mostly use seagate >> which is fine with me I only use seagate drives they are the most relyable >> in my experience. I don't know how apple can say a MBP with max ram and 7200 >> RPM hard drive can cause heat problems because you can order it from them >> that way so obviously they did some testing and why give people that option >> if it causes problems. Oh and on the MBP I've seen posts in a few places >> that new MBP's will be released in the next week or two, only upgrades is >> the processors they will have sandybridge I5 processors can't remember if >> there's I7's as well. Think you'll get a 2.2 GHz a 2.6 GHz and a 2.8 but I >> could be wrong can't exactly remember, also know they said it will stay the >> same price as the current ones. >> >> Brian Casey wrote: >>> That seems a bit crazy! I'm no computing genious but I would have >>> thought that wouldn't make a difference. Especially if it's a server. >>> I wonder what the smallist/cheepist screen on the market is, something >>> the size of an iPhone or something could e magical solution. Maybe the >>> Macbook is just the best option though, but having two hard drives would >> be great. >>> >>> Any comments on portability? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Brian. >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> From: "Kevin Reeves" <reeves...@gmail.com> >>> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 6:13 PM >>> To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> >>> Subject: Re: Ideal mac for recording/editing/mixing >>> >>>> The catch with the minis is that you need a screen for it to run at >>>> optimum levels. Oddly enough, at least with my mini, which is mid >>>> 2009, without a monitor, the system is very sluggish. Many other >>>> folks have noticed this as well. However, I'm not sure if this is >>>> also true for the newest minis or the mini server. >> >
