mini mac

[guitar junkie]

mini mac?

what do you guys think of the new mini macs ?
the price is very good and the size is small the power is large enough that it should handle most things well enough (just make sure you buy enough RAM)
i am looking into a new computer this summer and am wondering about macs i was thinking imac when this came out should i stick with imac G5 or roll with one of these money is the main thing for me i like the fact that this thing is not so far out of reach as say a power mac G5 what do you guys think?

PS. most of what i record is acoustic music with less than 20 tracks most times

 

[guitar junkie]

what about these

has any body checked them out yet? am i the only one looking at these?

 

[DigitalSmigital]

Go G5...

even if you can't afford it. The mini mac as a DAW may be OK to start up, but at your age you'll outgrow it in a few months.

 

[dgatwood]

What I'd personally like to own as far as a DAW goes is a G5 iMac with a firewire audio interface with... oh, eight XLR connectors velcroed to the back.... Hauling my G5 with a pair of 15" displays and a 16-channel mixer to distant recording sessions sucks something fierce. In that regard, a mini would still be a good bit better than my G5, weighing something like 40 pounds less....

Regarding performance, granted it isn't a dual G5, but a mini is still more than three times as fast as the hardware that I did 60% of my almost-finished CD with... (and at least an order of magnitude faster than the Wallstreet PowerBook I used for one song...).

The only thing about a mini that might concern me a bit performance-wise is the laptop hard drive, which could limit your track count somewhat. For that reason, if you can affford a beefier machine like a G5 iMac or desktop, I'd do that.

In any case, my advice... go to an Apple store and try one out. Bring a DAW and tracks on a hard drive. I did that at WWDC two years ago on a G5 before I bought one. Best way I know of to evaluate hardware.