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 Wed 19 Jan 2005, 01:10
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From: Ramat Hasharon - IL
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hellllo...  i'm very very new to mac, infact i don't know anything about them, only that i want one... now i've been using PC all my life and i want to move into mac. This MAC mini sounds nice, and can fit to my budget, i can't afford much... now, so far i've been using sonar (which means now i'll be moving into D. Performer woohooo!) for film scoring and mainly MIDI productions, not dealing with audio that much. ok sorry for saying that much, the question is - i can afford the MAC mini 1.42, i'll add a pc2700 1 GB and a 160GB 7200 (8 cache) FIREWIRE hdd... which means it'll be (in here) about - 1395$ more or less... is it worth it? will it be strong enough for, lets say - loading a full orchestra (heavy samples) into kontakt? well you get my point... it's worth it? i havn't got a clue in mac, none! hehehe please... any1 thanks, Yoav
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 Wed 19 Jan 2005, 07:25
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If you want to use heavy virtual synth (sampler in this case) you'll need RAM, and when I write RAM it's at least 1,5-2 GB. Mini is limited at 1GB, it can be enough for low end users, small set up, but for something serious… Also Samplers are heavy jobs, the mini may not be the right direction. I'd look after some bipro G4 or upgradable mono G4 into bipro. You can pour RAM in them. Jobs in midi, most plug-ins can do in the 1 GB limit, the power will limit you but it's in the league of ibooks, there are people out there using ibooks for audio.  Check the threads on ibooks to have an idea of what is possible. Also, if you plan using DP, Machfive may be a better choice. I'm sure other users will give their opinion, I'm rather conservative on these issues. 
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Wed 19 Jan 2005, 10:11
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well... first thanks for the reply second, that all depends on what we take as serious, i mean, i don't sample stuff (instruments etc.) i use AKAI and GIGA samples which loads with kontakt and that's it, plus plugins for fx and compression etc (which can be quite a few sometimes - but not THAT much), my VST instruments use is not massive, trilogy sometimes... few moogs (all the plugins and VST instruments are all software - vsts i mean, nothing is external except for the controller and the mixer). so since i havn't got much money, and the whole thing as i said should cost me around 1200-1300$ in here (look at the first post), is it worth it? -> MAC mini 1.42 + 160GB FIREWIRE + 1GB RAM? for MIDI based productions - AKAI and GIGA samples? well, on my current PC, i run with 1GB of ram and i get good results, but still... i want more, and i heard mac can make more out of the CPU and the MEMORY... so what i'm asking (again) is, is it worth "upgrading" or moving into mac mini with the features i mentiond from my P4 2.4, 1GB RAM? thanks again, waiting for reply
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Sun 23 Jan 2005, 01:34
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Hey,
just my .02$.....I just recieved my Mac Mini yesterday (i preordered it 2 wks before it came out) any way ....I got the Mac Mini.,..1.4ghz, 512 ram and the 80g hard drive.....I also purchased the M-Audio firewire410.......In all honesty after having a countless # of windoze computers and using almost every audio app there is....this system is by far incredible....now being is I NEVER had a mac before I was a little nervous but after I loaded up Abelton Live....My fears were put to rest......I make hip hop music and can easily have 10 tracks (min) of just vocals and I did a quick recording yesterday and not one drop out or ANYTHING...Im still amazed!!!! I Officially will NEVER buy another windows compuer EVER AGAIN!!! I have now been converted!!!
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Sun 23 Jan 2005, 09:50
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From: Ramat Hasharon - IL
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thanks alot guys now i'm just sitting and waiting for it to arrive (we didn't even get - the stores)
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Mon 28 Feb 2005, 22:49
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I have to agree the mac mini is a great deal.. I got mine about 2 weeks ago. I am running Protools LE with a Digi 002R
and my mac mini is the 1.43Ghz with 512 mb of ram. And I have not had one problem. A lot of people doubt it just because it is small and it has a cheap price tag but it is by far the best deal out there right now. Even though it does add up with the ram the keyboard and a good firewire hard drive it is still worth it. I have loaded up some old files on it of mixes that i had done a long time ago with about 20 tracks of audio and a lot of plug ins running and it was great. Apple hit it on the head with this one. so trust me if you are doing a lot of midi work and some sampling this machine with do the job.
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