as both my desktop iMac 21 inch (late 2009) and Macbook Pro 13 inch (late 2010) are showing their age when doing heavy music production sessions (Maxed out Ableton Live 8 / Logic sessions with 60+ tracks, 5 fx returns)
I was looking at the current generation of Apple desktop/laptops and i came across some really really attractive alternative:
I realised that for not that much money, i can build myself a top-of-the-line Intel I7 2700K (3.5 GHZ of RAW Power!!!) , 16GB DDR3 Ram , 2TB 7200 rpm hard drive, dual full hd screen (1920 x 1080 res each, 22 inch) for about $1200 SGD (about USD $1000)
i was like - WOW - now im really confused, I mean I love my macs and I really cant see myself going back to windows after converting to Mac about 3 years ago, but the insane low price and the extreme specs made me think - is this the way to go for music production rigs?
The same Specced Mac Pro Desktop would have costed about 5 times this
if you really wanna go crazy you can add in a WD Raptor 10,000 rpm hard drive as the boot drive, and a crazy dual SLI graphics card (for you gamers) - of course for some extra $$$ if you need them
Of course we are talking about using it for music production, for djing even my slightly aged macbook pro does the job fine and i dont intend to replace my macbook pro for djing, but for home desktop production power house, i think custom built intel desktops are really really.... awesome!
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