Thoughts on imac or "mini" for Pro Tools?

[mike e]

I appreciate your posts about this in another thread last week...

Kinda changing course a bit from my initial question...

I need a new Mac for an office was thinking that my studio G4
would be fine,(though it does have the PCI slots which I need for
my Delta 66 card and a Lynx22 card (for my main editing app til now,
Bias Peak).

A dual-boot G4 1.25 in my main studio unit is loud, though i
use an isolated booth.

It occured to me that if i buy another mac - and i since I don't
do anything beyond VO/mono tracks or 8 tracks max for spot work,
an intel IMac G5 or MINI duo would be acceptable for the studio
(in combo with a good external FW interface and record-drive.

It would also allow miking VO either in-booth, or, near the computer
in the control room, especially with the low-noise of the newer
models.

If you were choosing between say, an intel Mini vs IMac,
which would give the most bang for buck for up-to-8 track spot
production like this --
or is it kind of a toss up in your opinion?

I'm also still running Panther and OS 9 and haven't even bought TIger
yet, though if i chose M-Powered PT (for either machine...) i would
need to upgrade to TIger which would be included on a new Mac.

Off that topic -- anyone have any idea how much of a
significant advantage in stability or other-wise, the latest version
of Bias's PEAK (5?) would be over v.4 which i currently have. I had a
few
bugs running that in Panther a year or so ago -- random quits during
long sessions
- so i went back to an older version (3) in OS 9 which stays fairly
stable- except sometimes
hanging and not locking up to ASIO drivers until after several re-
boots.

Thanks as always for your insights,

Mike

[mike e]

On Feb 4, 8:59 pm, "mike e" > wrote:
> I appreciate your posts about this in another thread last week...
>
> Kinda changing course a bit from my initial question...
>
> I need a new Mac for an office was thinking that my studio G4
> would be fine,(though it does have the PCI slots which I need for
> my Delta 66 card and a Lynx22 card (for my main editing app til now,
> Bias Peak).
>
> A dual-boot G4 1.25 in my main studio unit is loud, though i
> use an isolated booth.
>
> It occured to me that if i buy another mac - and i since I don't
> do anything beyond VO/mono tracks or 8 tracks max for spot work,
> an intelIMacG5 or MINI duo would be acceptable for the studio
> (in combo with a good external FW interface and record-drive.
>
> It would also allow miking VO either in-booth, or, near the computer
> in the control room, especially with the low-noise of the newer
> models.
>
> If you were choosing between say, an intel Mini vsIMac,
> which would give the most bang for buck for up-to-8 track spot
> production like this --
> or is it kind of a toss up in your opinion?
>
> I'm also still running Panther and OS 9 and haven't even bought TIger
> yet, though if i chose M-Powered PT (for either machine...) i would
is it real quiet on this board?

> need to upgrade to TIger which would be included on a new Mac.
>
> Off that topic -- anyone have any idea how much of a
> significant advantage in stability or other-wise, the latest version
> of Bias's PEAK (5?) would be over v.4 which i currently have. I had a
> few
> bugs running that in Panther a year or so ago -- random quits during
> long sessions
> - so i went back to an older version (3) in OS 9 which stays fairly
> stable- except sometimes
> hanging and not locking up to ASIO drivers until after several re-
> boots.
>
> Thanks as always for your insights,
>
> Mike

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On 5 Feb, 22:41, "mike e" > wrote:
>
> is it real quiet on this board?
>


Lots of forums have posters that will tell you how much better THEIR
gear sounds, whatever the question is, especially if they have no clue
about the OP question. Most of the people from this forum don't do
it, so yes, sometimes, some questions never bragging answers...

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