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Jan 10, 2020 Home The Forums Music Computers DAW Talk Ableton Live Mac Mini 2018 with Ableton Live 10 Gearslutz is part-supported by our visitors. When you buy products through links across our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. I've got the 6 core 2018 mac mini, using it for heavy music production in Ableton and working like a charm so far! Though heads up I have a thunderbolt interface and I've heard some people with USB interfaces having trouble with the new macs.
25th October 2019
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Need some advice please people..using windows 10 with ableton ? Pros and cons ? Looking at the i5 Mac mini but there's a sale on with Alienware and some decent savings to be had..specifically looking at the Alienware aurora r9 against the i5 Mac mini. Will also need to buy a pcie for the r9 and it looks hit and miss if the MOTU express 128 midi interface will work ok with windows.. I can get around this for the foreseeable future as I only need 4 midi in and out and use the rest on usb so can switch out the MOTU and claw a bit of money back. It's a leap of faith to move from Mac to a Windows PC but I like the idea of being able to keep upgrading my hardware along the way. I'm hearing good and bad things about MOTU on windows 10 ? Any advice ? Any other things I should be wary of in making the switch ? Yes it's a subject that's been done over and over and I've searched stuff already but it's the new hardware that is making my head spin. Is migrating to windows that big a deal these days really ?
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Hi all,I'm thinking about buying a Mac Mini as a dedicated music computer and wondering which one to get... Maybe second-hand with good enough specs should be fine (and save a lot of money).
Currently I'm using a MacBook Pro 15' 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM and a 500GB 7200rpm HD, running OS X 10.8.5. Soundcard is first gen MOTU Ultralite (FW 400 connector). Using Live 8 and Logic Pro X and heaviest plug-ins are probably Reaktor ensembles. The laptop copes ok with that all, but a bit faster would of course be better, but don't think I need the absolutely latest and greatest, fastest machine out there...
But... if going for new, then quite fancy the €629 2.5GHz Dual Core i5 Mac Mini:
- Firewire 800 port to MOTU's 400 port is ok?
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- HD is 5400rpm, but tbh I noticed the extra noise more than the extra speed when I upgraded my laptop from 5400 to 7200...
- I assume the Mac Mini is going to run as quiet as a church mouse, right?
- Any other weird stuff I should be wary of?