Hi Simon, I hear you, I priced one out and hit about $12,000 before I even bought a monitor. That’s a lot to spend for a hobby or experiment though. I’ll probably go iMac just because do I really need that many cores. I bet the iMac will run all the plugins and such I want to try out. Would rather spend that extra money on some vintage synth gear.
All this vintage synth and music gear talk makes me wonder what happened to Joe’s Garage. In the main mix position in Joe’s Garage you could mix in several axes complete with over head and floor mounted speakers. Thanks for the feedback on the Pro though. As much as I’d love one that’s hard to justify with out making money with it. > On Jul 13, 2016, at 4:31 AM, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote: > > HI Scott, > > I've seen one being used but haven't had a play with one myself. > > The new mac pros that is. > > They resemble a small trash bin, > Almost like a small R2D2 droid. > > But nothing showing on the front but you turn them around and they've got a > panel approx. 5inchs square that has all the connections on it. > > The model I got to see was the vbasic version with only 16 gig ram, but we > priced one for a joke that was fully speced to the max that came to just > under 30 thousand NZ dollars. > > Very fast machine if you have a SSD with the os on it and good amount of ram. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Granados > Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2016 2:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Opinions On This Used Mac Mini > > Hi Tim, by mac pro do you mean a Macbook pro or a real mac pro desktop. I’ve > been thinking about getting a mac pro desktop but (power work station might > be a better word for it) but I haven’t met anyone who’s used one. If you’re > using the later, any impressions? > > > >> On Jul 11, 2016, at 5:32 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I agree totally with your assessment here. Although, regarding the MacPro, >> I installed a SSD into Bay 1 of mine, created a fusion drive between it and >> a 1 TB spinner in Bay 2 and knocked it up to 16 GB of RAM. It runs quite >> well with El Capitan now. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Jul 11, 2016, at 15:21, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Nothing new here, Apple is just better at keeping consumers out of their >> widgets now then back in the Mac Plus days. They figured out that most >> people could pick up a long T15 Torx screwdriver without much trouble but >> getting things unsoldered without burning the board is a different thing. >> Then again, it used to be that a machine would barley creak past the three >> year mark before failing, if they made it that far. My 2008 Mac Pro and 2012 >> MacBook Pro are still humming along just fine at work. So are the PowerMac >> G4 in the basement and the 2009 Mini hooked to the TV at home. It's no >> longer planned obsolescence through hardware failure but by software that >> requires more and more. Eventually support is dropped and I have to make the >> call on whether I can live with a particular piece of hardware running >> software frozen in time. At least with the MacPro it can still run OSX 10.11 >> even if it's a bit pokey. >> >> CB >> >> On 7/9/16 8:01 PM, Scott Granados wrote: >>> Apple doesn’t want you to upgrade at all. For most products now once you >>> buy it your stuck with what you got. As Simon mentioned there may be an >>> access panel on the iMac but for the most part everything is hard soldered >>> to the board. >>> >>>> On Jul 8, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Saqib Hussain <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi. Can you upgrade the RAM on the latest Mac Mini? I would be interested >>>> in doing this but I think Apple prefer we didn’t go to a local retailer >>>> for RAM upgrades. >>>>> On 7 Jul 2016, at 18:20, Portia Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Also, if you know a good computer store, or you know how to >>>>> yourself, you can upgrade the ram, I believe up to 16 GB. At least, >>>>> mine can be upgraded that much, yours may be only 8 GB. Still, that is >>>>> decent. >>>>> >>>>> Portia. >>>>> >>>>> On 7/7/16, Portia Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Hey Arnold, >>>>>> >>>>>> That is the exact model I got, but it is from 2012. >>>>>> >>>>>> I honestly think it would be a great buy, as I've read the reviews on it. >>>>>> >>>>>> Portia. >>>>>> >>>>>> On 7/7/16, Arnold Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> It is from 2011. It has an i5, I think 2.5 gig, processor, but >>>>>>> only 4 gig of ram. It has a 500 gig hard drive, which is plenty >>>>>>> for me. They want about $430 for this computer. 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