A Mac book pro does not need a monitor to work with Voice OVer at all. Just
thought I'd let you know.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
A Very Proud and Happy Mac User!!!
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On Aug 26, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Frank Carmickle wrote:
Hi
On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:10 PM, RvR wrote:
Hello,
Can't seem to make the choice between an iMac and a Mac Pro for use with Pro
Tools and such. Having great difficulties with making decisions the last
couple of months...LOL I cannot ask you guys cause you don't know what I am
going to do with it. But maybe you can shed some light on some things which
hopefully can help me make my decision.
First I was wondering if a Mac Pro also needs a monitor connected to
function properly and if so does it has to be turned on also?
I can't answer this directly but my experience with a Mac mini shows that yes
you need a monitor attached but it does not need to be powered on.
Secondly, I presume using a pci audio interface with a Mac Pro is the
obvious way. Or is firewire also an option?
For protools specifically you have hd, which is a pci/pci-e card, 003 or the
supported m Audio devices which are firewire or usb.
In both cases (external for iMac) which audio interfaces would you
recommend? I don't need tons of ins and outs, just a midrange solution.
Brian recommended one of the MAudio boxes before but can't remember what that
was. Do you want something with a built in control surface? If so the 003 is
probably a good fit.
I probably gonna choose between an iMac i7 and a Mac Pro quad core xeon
2.8.
Brian has recommended the iMac to a few people on this list. I lean towards
the Mac pro because you can put pci/pci-e expansion cards in it. Also you can
easily upgrade the memory and hard drives. You can also put four hd's in the
pro.
Maybe I will have some more questions later on.
I don't mind answering questions. This stuff seems to come up a lot on the
list. Maybe we should put up a page about the different hardware choices?
Hope that helps
--FC
