yes the upgrade to 8GB total is def on my table. the sticks arent available in australia very much, and they are costly - so i think ill order from crucial.com its very cheap!
Sorry, random observation, but I always seem to notice that people from Australia are always so friendly
running off a MB would indeed be VERY painful - can i ask what type of samples/channels you work with? how many at a time?
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is painful. Right now I only like to work in light projects at the moment. I have some large projects, some as high as 64 tracks, and I'll get a CPU system overload every 8 measures or so when I introduce a new progression. I know technological limitations should never be a reason to not be creative, but in my case, it really discourages me from working. I would say that is a personal issue however.
iMac supports 16GB RAM currently, dont forget that
Oh my lord, I just did. Thanks for reminding me. I don't know how I forgot that. I guess I was still thinking in MBP specs. Anyway, very nice. Makes me want the iMac even more now
totally agreed with the SSDs in the iMac. but you have to think about it from the perspective of the machines intentions. its basically just a machine that sits on a desk for medium work processing duties. its an all-in-one, meaning that everything is meant to be on the inside. with an 80GB SSD, 160GB SSD or even the latest 250GB SSDs (which would double the price of the machine basically) the amount of available storage isnt much! your logic projects take up a good 20GBs each? at least? i would much rather have 2TB of space and sacrifice a bit of time and not have the external (slower) drives attached.
Actually, no I did a massive remix project and it was only less than 2 gigs in size, including all sample stem files and bounces. I don't record bands or anything and the most recording I do are usually solo vocals or instruments. My primary work is in midi and composition so I utilize virtual instruments the majority of my work. I also have a massive sample library, but I keep those neatly tucked away on an external firewire drive.
However, even if i did record massive amounts of audio though, I still think it's a practical solution to run them off an external drive, one that I think is used by many recording musicians today. Just to have an SSD to boot off and run applications though is just a nice option to have.
if you are fine in the mean time however, it might be an idea to wait for the latest iMacs - LightPeaks, USB3.0, touch compatibility, 10GB/s ethernet, SSDs and more/faster RAM all seem to be a viable option for the next apple updates. maybe it is worth the wait?
I'm not that fine lol. I've been without a primary machine since Summer of 09 and don't get my wrong, I love this little machine, but it was only meant to serve as an extension to the primary machine; something i could go gigging with.
Yea, I've already drilled it in my head to wait for the '10 Mac Pros and see what my options are. Then if those cost a fortune again, plan B is to wait for the iMac, like you've suggested. I can see USB 3.0, but I feel Light peak is still at least a year off. I think I'll be looking at least until WWDC for that announcement however. It's just a painful waiting game
for me, this machine is perfect! storage is good (i have a million external drives anyway lol), RAM upgradability is great, screen is AMAZING. im set
I know, everything that it has is very tempting. Yea, that screen is very beautiful. by the way, do you run an external monitor too or do you everything on your imac monitor? With a resolution that large, I doubt I would even need a second display.
