Buying a new Mac : Maxed out Mini or Mac Studio ?

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Buying a new Mac : Maxed out Mini or Mac Studio ?

Post by chapelier fou » Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:51 am

Time to buy a new computer.
I'd use it for music production only, mainly using Ableton Live 11 and Max/MSP.
I'm working with video from time to time, usually within Live.
I'm hesitating between a maxed out Mac Mini with M1 chip and the new Mac Studio.
Any advice ?
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Re: Buying a new Mac : Maxed out Mini or Mac Studio ?

Post by Tarekith » Mon Mar 14, 2022 1:12 pm

Mac Studio easily.
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Re: Buying a new Mac : Maxed out Mini or Mac Studio ?

Post by chapelier fou » Mon Mar 14, 2022 1:29 pm

Tarekith wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 14, 2022 1:12 pm
 Mac Studio easily.
May I ask why ? Because of the M1 Max chip ?
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Re: Buying a new Mac : Maxed out Mini or Mac Studio ?

Post by Tarekith » Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:09 pm

Definitely, and for less thermal management due to the increased cooling.
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Re: Buying a new Mac : Maxed out Mini or Mac Studio ?

Post by Pitch Black » Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:11 pm

And more headroom/CPU/grunt for now, and longer into the future. Better investment.
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Re: Buying a new Mac : Maxed out Mini or Mac Studio ?

Post by chapelier fou » Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:14 pm

Thanks guys.
Pulled the trigger for a Mac Studio with 32Go RAM and a 4To drive. One month to wait, though.
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Re: Buying a new Mac : Maxed out Mini or Mac Studio ?

Post by Pitch Black » Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:23 pm

Congratulations!
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Re: Buying a new Mac : Maxed out Mini or Mac Studio ?

Post by [jur] » Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:55 pm

Tarekith wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:09 pm
 Definitely, and for less thermal management due to the increased cooling.
I'm still wondering if my mini will ever make a noise one day...
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Re: Buying a new Mac : Maxed out Mini or Mac Studio ?

Post by Terrorbeat » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:26 am

[jur] wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:55 pm
Tarekith wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:09 pm
 Definitely, and for less thermal management due to the increased cooling.
I'm still wondering if my mini will ever make a noise one day...
I have a 2020 Intel and didn't believe mine had a fan in it until the day I decided to rip one of my DVD's with it. I thought it was the external DVD drive at first but nope there's a fan in there, but even the little mini really needs to be pushed before it needs to come on. Ive heard it come on when Cubase is exporting a mix down, but only heard it in Ableton when I decided to get crazy and use Pigments and Plasmonic in the same project hah.
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