Just a slight correction. MacBook Airs don't come with a retina display.
You must be thinking of the 12-inch MacBook. Yours truly, Sadam Ahmed Sent from my iPhone -- Yours truly, Sadam Ahmed Sent from my iPhone -- > On 7 Oct 2015, at 6:47 AM, erik burggraaf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anders, > > I think the 1.6 ghz processer is a quadcore which makes it more expensive and > also as it's a laptop processer with four cores, it will have more l2 cash > and be engineered to run a little cooler than the desktop processer in the > mini. The 2.7 ghz processer in the mini is a duel core from what I remember. > As it has half the cores, it may run faster, but will carry less load and > probably have less cache. I suspect that given 8 gb of ram and solid state > hard drives, you would have to take the processers out and do benchmark tests > to notice the differences, but lets just say you should be very happy with > your 2.7 ghz duel core, 8 gb ram, and 500 gb ssd for audio production. > > Another thing that bulds out the price of the mba is that it now comes with > retina display. OK, the mba does not have an ethernet port, firewire > adapter, and some other things which you would have to by thunderbolt > connecters for if you want to expand them. Mac mini does come with ethernet > and HDMI which are the two you probably want most, but it doesn't come with a > monitor or a keyboard. THird parties do make some most excellent keyboards > for less than half the price of the apple bluetooth keyboard, and a monitor? > pooie! Hook up to a tv or something if you are desperate. > > Unless you have a need for a mobile workstation to do field recordingm the > mini seems like the best bet for what you want to do. Besides, you can > always pick up good field recording gear later if you want it. > > Best, > > Erik > Erik Burggraaf > > >> On Oct 6, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> Am about to spend money on a new Mac. >> I have been comparing macs on app store. >> First i really wanted a macbook Air but the i wanted my 11 inch with 8 gb >> ram and 512 flash disk. >> And that will cost me more than i can afford. >> I don’t know the differences in the processor types. >> I mean is 2.7 much faster than 1.6 ghz. >> Ofcourse i could reduce the flash drive to 256 gigabyte but it feels very >> very small. >> My mac mini has a harddisk capacity thats 500 gb. >> I will also use my mac for some hobby music production and i don’t know if >> 8gb of ram is enough for that. >> I actually did a comparision with a mac mini 2.7 GzH with a ram amount of 16 >> gb and a fusion drive of 1 tb. >> Thats much cheaper than the mac book air i put to gether on the app store >> app. >> Maybe thats the way to go. >> But if some has some ideas i’d be more than happy to hear from you. >> Thanks. >> /A >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
