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<blockquote data-quote="LiddleBuddha" data-source="post: 817263" data-attributes="member: 90338"><p>Hey Antoine,</p><p></p><p>In addition to vashpr's comments, you may be interested in reading what people had to say about the iMac at the thread I started here...</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/music-audio-podcasting/144009-mac-mini-imac-audio-recording-mixing.html" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/music-audio-podcasting/144009-mac-mini-imac-audio-recording-mixing.html</a></p><p></p><p>I still haven't purchased my DAW computer. This will be my first audio computer, and since it's going to be a dedicated machine, I think I'm going to get one of the new iMac's.</p><p></p><p>However, my funds are limited. If I had the funds I'd probably get one of the new Mac Pro's and just be set for quite some time.</p><p></p><p>I guess some questions to consider would be... Do you already have all the outboard gear and software you need? Do you already have a nice monitor? Are you doing professional work with your DAW?</p><p></p><p>If you're doing professional production work you might want to go for the Mac Pro (I'm sure any one of them is more than sufficient). The Mac Pro is more expandable than the iMac. It's just a monster workhorse. A friend of mine does professional recording studio work with one and he doesn't have a single complaint.</p><p></p><p>The base model Mac Pro is pretty sweet right out of the box! It's got a 2.66Mhz Quad Core Xeon, plenty of ram (expandable to 8gb for a reasonable price, compared to 8gb ram for the iMac), double the amount of graphics memory (also expandable) as the iMac. </p><p></p><p>That being said, if you're a home hobbyist and not doing professional production work, I'm betting you'd be plenty happy with an iMac and pocketing the rest of your $$, (or spending it on other fun toys and/or software!).</p><p></p><p>Good luck either way! Let us know what you decide and how it goes once everything is up and running.</p><p></p><p>Best,</p><p>LB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LiddleBuddha, post: 817263, member: 90338"] Hey Antoine, In addition to vashpr's comments, you may be interested in reading what people had to say about the iMac at the thread I started here... [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/music-audio-podcasting/144009-mac-mini-imac-audio-recording-mixing.html[/url] I still haven't purchased my DAW computer. This will be my first audio computer, and since it's going to be a dedicated machine, I think I'm going to get one of the new iMac's. However, my funds are limited. If I had the funds I'd probably get one of the new Mac Pro's and just be set for quite some time. I guess some questions to consider would be... Do you already have all the outboard gear and software you need? Do you already have a nice monitor? Are you doing professional work with your DAW? If you're doing professional production work you might want to go for the Mac Pro (I'm sure any one of them is more than sufficient). The Mac Pro is more expandable than the iMac. It's just a monster workhorse. A friend of mine does professional recording studio work with one and he doesn't have a single complaint. The base model Mac Pro is pretty sweet right out of the box! It's got a 2.66Mhz Quad Core Xeon, plenty of ram (expandable to 8gb for a reasonable price, compared to 8gb ram for the iMac), double the amount of graphics memory (also expandable) as the iMac. That being said, if you're a home hobbyist and not doing professional production work, I'm betting you'd be plenty happy with an iMac and pocketing the rest of your $$, (or spending it on other fun toys and/or software!). Good luck either way! Let us know what you decide and how it goes once everything is up and running. Best, LB [/QUOTE]
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