I have a static studio setup, and a mobile rig for my ‘on the road’ needs, and both of my rigs are built around refurbished machines.Įvery fellow audio professional that I know shares a similar path to me – their computer setup has evolved around their changing needs and practices alongside the steady march of technology, and we’ve all come to rely more and more on working ‘in the box’. Modern audio production all starts with capable and reliable computers. I’m an audio professional, and so demand high performance and minimum downtime from my Macs. Mini I think is the perfect computer for music production work! Just wish they allowed for upgrading storage internally but other than that its everything we could have asked for.Do I really need a brand new Mac for audio? I use the mini standalone with no slave system and I have had zero cpu spikes.
this led to nice improvements in processing power for the first time in many years. any other older i7 chip will have less power than the mac mini with the i5, this is because intel moved to 6 cores from 4 cores with the 8th gen. Geekbench places teh imac from 2017 with the maxed out i7 7700k at 19375 - so a slight bit less than teh i5 and getting that machine used would likely not be any cheaper than a new mini. I would recommend to get 500 GB storage and then use external SSD for your sample libs.Īn older i7 would likely be a step down from the most recent i5. If you can do this upgrade yourself and save a ton of money - especially if you are going for 32 GB.
32 GB of RAM would be good though 16 is necessary. I think honestly the i5 would be sufficient for most music making, unless you bring in an enormous number of tracks on your templates. Geekbench has benchmarks for each of them, this is useful but not a perfect measure of performance. You can get a 4 core or 6 core mac mini, the 6 core comes standard with an i5 but you can upgrade to the i7 for $200 more.
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