Hello!

I am buying my second mac after in 11 years, and want to make electronic music with 6 to 16 tracks. I want to produce music, so where do I start. Is it useless to buy a mac mini ? Or can i still make music on that, as long as I do not use much samples. I plan to have only the Grand 2 plus recording real synthesizers with a firewire card.

I plan a external firedisk with a hub also.

So... how far will a mac mini bring me.

I am thinking of
Mac mini 1,25 plus Superdrive
Buy extra Kingston RAM, and sell the old 512.

Or.. lowest imac 1,8 G5. And wait 2 more months..

Since the iMac 1,8 G5 is a more modern powerful computer - you should be
able to push it a lot harder.

VI:s (MOTU MX-4 as an example ) and convolution reverbs are very
processor intensive.
A mac mini wont handle much of that, but will do nicely if you keep things
simple.

In any case get lots of ram 1GB minimum.

Cheers: Dixiechicken

I would agree with the iMac, but for other reasons.
iMac G5 Advantages:
1. higher RAM capacity (2 Gigs)
2. faster main buss
3. conventional hard drives are bigger, faster and cheaper
(MacMini uses a notebook drive)
4. no need for a Firewire hub, with multiple ports, you should have any daisy chain problems

Go with the iMac G5 you won't regret it

I went for a Imac G5, last model (february 2005) with 1gb RAM. And it is like walking into a dream or a science fiction movie. Everything just works... And it looks criminally delicious.

I am just sayin to all you people out there. If you only have money for a mac mini, buy a used imac G5, it is much more worth the money.

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