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Any music production geeks have a recommendation on whether a relatively maxed out new Mac Mini could be a worthy DAW? Keep in mind I need macOS to use Logic, a

by gnrlst 7y ago

Any music production geeks have a recommendation on whether a relatively maxed out new Mac Mini could be a worthy DAW? Keep in mind I need macOS to use Logic, and don't want the hassle of a Hackintosh.

tnolet 7y ago
more than easily. Fantastic albums have been made with way less CPU / Mem grunt than these new Mac minis.
- zimpenfish 7y ago
  Some of them without any CPU horsepower at all! (I jest, I know what you mean. I made one with pretty much just an iPhone although it's definitely not fantastic.)
  - PascLeRasc 7y ago
    Steve Lacy recorded his entire debut album on his iPhone into Garageband, and it's definitely fantastic.
rvz 7y ago
It should be enough to be suitable for your needs. If it were for being a gaming machine with macOS then a 16-inch MacBook Pro + AMD GPU would be also fine. For a CI or compiling machine, neither are good enough.
- jefft255 7y ago
  It's funny that you this mention this; Apple recommends Mac Minis for Xcode build farms right on their page! What could be better? A mac pro? An iMac pro would clearly be a waste given the cost of the screen (although some CI for a Windows app I worked on in the past required a monitor to be turned plugged-in).
  - rvz 7y ago
    > It's funny that you this mention this; Apple recommends Mac Minis for Xcode build farms right on their page! What could be better? Well of course Apple recommends this. It's like asking a barber if you need a premium haircut, but the price is expensive with poor performance, but will do just fine for most people. A less expensive CI for achieving better CPU performance would be a quick Hackintosh setup with a powerful Intel NUC for 1/2 of the price of a maxed out Mac mini. This isn't for everyone, but it saves me money and even more if it were my existing computer. The expectation here for a in-house hackintosh CI is that if you can install and setup a Linux machine and configure X11/Wayland, etc it is pretty much the same with a Hackintosh these days.

by gnrlst 7y ago

tnolet 7y ago

more than easily. Fantastic albums have been made with way less CPU / Mem grunt than these new Mac minis.

zimpenfish 7y ago
Some of them without any CPU horsepower at all! (I jest, I know what you mean. I made one with pretty much just an iPhone although it's definitely not fantastic.)
- PascLeRasc 7y ago
  Steve Lacy recorded his entire debut album on his iPhone into Garageband, and it's definitely fantastic.

rvz 7y ago

It should be enough to be suitable for your needs. If it were for being a gaming machine with macOS then a 16-inch MacBook Pro + AMD GPU would be also fine. For a CI or compiling machine, neither are good enough.

jefft255 7y ago
It's funny that you this mention this; Apple recommends Mac Minis for Xcode build farms right on their page! What could be better? A mac pro? An iMac pro would clearly be a waste given the cost of the screen (although some CI for a Windows app I worked on in the past required a monitor to be turned plugged-in).
- rvz 7y ago
  > It's funny that you this mention this; Apple recommends Mac Minis for Xcode build farms right on their page! What could be better? Well of course Apple recommends this. It's like asking a barber if you need a premium haircut, but the price is expensive with poor performance, but will do just fine for most people. A less expensive CI for achieving better CPU performance would be a quick Hackintosh setup with a powerful Intel NUC for 1/2 of the price of a maxed out Mac mini. This isn't for everyone, but it saves me money and even more if it were my existing computer. The expectation here for a in-house hackintosh CI is that if you can install and setup a Linux machine and configure X11/Wayland, etc it is pretty much the same with a Hackintosh these days.