On 4 Apr 2015, at 6:53 pm, Christopher-Mark Gilland
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
To: <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
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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