Where did you find the 2012 Mac Mini? And do you think Apple will support it for a few more years (.e.g, not do an OS update that kills it)? He has legacy gear and this one is the last with firewire, first with USB3, ram & ssd upgradeable, and can be updated all the way to the most recent MacOSes. That is how my Apollo is connected.Ī timely question as I just researched this for a friend of mine and wound up recommending a used 2012 Mini with the 2.3Ghz quad-core i7. Oh, and while the suggestion of the 2012 MacMini is a good suggestion for many reasons, you don't get Thunderbolt 3 on the old Mini's. Just have plenty of good, fast, external HD's. An equivalent MacMini should work the same. It does just fine with Logic, Live and Reason. I bought the higher end version with the good processor and plenty of memory. It is basically a MacMini built into a screen. You may want to look at cooling solutions.Ī few years ago I made a statement on Keyboard Corner that I would never own an iMac. A huge logic project while pushing a 4K monitor may give you issues.
#Is the mac mini 2009 good for studio 1080p#
You can run Reason with a 1080P screen on it all day. The box design does not allow it to dissipate heat as easily as a laptop. One thing to consider, if you push it too hard for too long you can run into heating problems. It is not going to compare to a MacBookPro. I have used the MacMini for music in the past and it did fine. So, is anyone out there using a Mac Mini for music production? How much did you expand it? Are you happy with your decision? Any words of wisdom for someone who's thinking of taking the plunge? Its base price is inexpensive, although expanding it to pro standards isn't cheap.but it's a lot less than a Mac Pro. (Besides, if I was going to spend that much money, I'd get a tricked-out Windows machine that could probably do interstellar time travel.) So that leaves a Mac Mini. I don't want an all-in-one, and can't afford the new Mac Pro desktop. And the new MacBook Pros suck, so I'm going to keep running this one as long as I can. But to me, a laptop isn't a studio computer. My circa 2012 MacBook Pro is still great, and will still run Catalina. Maybe a more apt description is "abandoned, and left on the sidewalk to die.") (Well not really, the software and computer still work fine. I could likely hack it to run 64-bit software, but the odds of it running Catalina are probably remote, and most of the software that's on it is "obsolete" anyway. The days are numbered for my beloved cheese grater desktop Mac, which is now as endangered a species as the snow leopard for which its operating system is named.
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