Hi:
Well, I have a Macbook pro with a 500gb ssd and 8gb ram, a quad core i7. It
is around two years old now but still kicks. If I were to want to set it up
for dual booting I would want more hard drive space. PT sessions and sample
libraries eat up a lot of drive space and though I have plenty for use on
the Mac side, I would really be stretching it to run windows and sonar as
well. If you do want to set it up to dual boot you probably would want to
get a regular mac like the mini or mac pro with a 1tb drive at least. Also,
just as in Sonar, you really should use a second drive for audio. With the
sdd it isn't quite as critical because of the lack of a head reading and
writing but I rarely use it in a mission critical situation where I'm
recording on a bunch of tracks at once. And I really wouldn't want to leave
my macbook pro at my gig, it's too hot an item. I know that windows runs
well on a mac, but for some reason I just want to keep the two worlds
separated.
Gord
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From: Peter Bosher
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 10:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Which Mac, and specs?
Hi All, I'm a Mac virgin, and am about to get my first one with a view to
learning ProTools, but I also want to use Boot Camp so that I can run Sonar
under Windows to keep working on existing projects. I've been looking at
the whole Mac range and should really appreciate some advice from those
with knowledge and experience of the Mac world. I'm leaning towards a Mac
Mini, with a 2.6 GHZ quad core processor, 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB fusion drive.
Do you think this will be adequate, or should I be looking at the Mac Pro
with its rather overwhelming customisation choices? Or are there other
considerations which would make you choose MacBook Pro or iMac? Any comments
or thoughts very much appreciated. Best, Peter ******* Peter Bosher, Email:
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