Well, on my Macbook Pro with 16g or ram and 2.9ghz i5 processor, I have gotten the message about cpu being exceeded (not exact words) and to increase the hardware buffer which I did from 256 to 512 samples. Does this indicate a problem with the computer?
On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 02:23:56 -0500, Jed Barton wrote: > > oh cool. > would a macbook air work or na > > On 2/24/2017 1:16 AM, Brian Casey wrote: > > I believe Jed said the main use would be editing for radio etc, in which > > case I would think 8 gig of ram and a modest machine should do just fine. > > > > I have a quad core imac with 32 gig of ram and a macvook with 8 gig of > > ram and a dual core processor for mobile work and the macbook can really > > keep up even mixing/editing 30/40 track projects with relatively large > > amounts of plugin processing happening...and my machines are 2011 and > > 2013 models I bought used. > > > > So in my opinion the most basic of new macbooks etc is well up to any > > low track count editing or processing. > > > > Sent from my smart-ish phone! > > > > On 24/02/2017, at 2:16 am, TheOreoMonster <monkeypushe...@gmail.com > > <mailto:monkeypushe...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > >> 16GB is the max anything apple currently sells except for the Mac Pro. > >> If you are going second hand EveryMac.com <http://EveryMac.com> is a > >> handy site for seeing just how much RAM a machine can recognize. > >>> On Feb 23, 2017, at 6:03 PM, Cameron Strife > >>> <came...@cameronstrife.com <mailto:came...@cameronstrife.com>> wrote: > >>> > >>> certainly 16 or 32 if you can afford it... > >>> > >>> <div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br /> > >>> <table style="border-top: 1px solid #D3D4DE;"> > >>> <tr> > >>> <td style="width: 55px; padding-top: 13px;"><a > >>> href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon"; > >>> target="_blank"><img > >>> src="https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif"; > >>> width="46" height="29" style="width: 46px; height: 29px;" /></a></td> > >>> <td style="width: 470px; padding-top: 12px; color: #41424e; > >>> font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; > >>> line-height: 18px;">Virus-free. <a > >>> href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link"; > >>> target="_blank" style="color: #4453ea;">www.avast.com > >>> <http://www.avast.com></a> > >>> </td> > >>> </tr> > >>> </table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" > >>> height="1"></a></div> > >>> > >>> On 2/23/17, Jed Barton <jedbar...@gmail.com > >>> <mailto:jedbar...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >>>> you think i should go with 8 gigs or 16 of ram? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 2/23/2017 7:41 PM, TheOreoMonster wrote: > >>>>> Whatever Mac you get, max out the ram. You may need aEDID display > >>>>> adapter > >>>>> to put on the display out of the Mac mini so it sees a signal like > >>>>> there > >>>>> is a monitor connected as this will cut down on VoiceOver lag. Of > >>>>> course > >>>>> if you will actually have it connected to a monitor you can skip this > >>>>> step. > >>>>> > >>>>>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 10:42 PM, Jed Barton <jedbar...@gmail.com > >>>>>> <mailto:jedbar...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Hey guys, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Well i finally did it, ordered protools today, but now i have to get a > >>>>>> mac for it. So here's the million dollar question, which 1? > >>>>>> Obviously, display isn't an issue for me as i can't see it anyway. > >>>>>> I was > >>>>>> originally thinking the Mac minny and from what i hear that's not > >>>>>> a bad > >>>>>> option, but would like to hear from you guys. I'll mainly be > >>>>>> doing radio > >>>>>> production, doing commercials and stuff like that. 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