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Hi, Ive been looking into the possibility of buying a Mac Mini, as I am a fan of Logic pro 9 and the Apple interface in general. The set-up I will be purchasing looks like this:

2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB of RAM
320GB Serial ATA Drive
SuperDrive 8x

As you can see from the set-up I am purchasing the standard Mac Mini although I am investing in an extra 2 gigs of RAM. As of what I can see it has a better performance than the Macbook I am aware of the Logic system requirements, I choose to pay little attention to these requirements as they are the bare minimum. Anyone that has knowledge of the Mac Mini would they be able to tell me if I can run 20+ tracks through logic simultaneously with this set-up?

Thanks.

You may or may not be fine...If it's all Logic's insturments I wager youll be fine. If you got some heavy VST's running It's anyones guess. Then again you can always freeze and bounce tracks so I'm sure you can make it work.

BTW I'm running Logic 8 on a G4 dual 867 with 1.5 gigs of ram and have not had any issues. But I also havent made a 20 track song on it yet either as I'm still learning it.

I used to run Logic Express with a mac mini with a 1G of RAM upgrade. I can't remember the processing power. It works fine most of the time but if you are running a lot of tracks it will overload. For the price you can't go wrong just be aware that your have to freeze tracks if your start running a lot at one time. Overall, it works decently.

sounds fine to me man

it should be fine as long as your hard drive is 7200rpm.

symmetricalsounds wrote:it should be fine as long as your hard drive is 7200rpm.

Thats a good question. That information isnt available on the Apple website strangely :L

synthless wrote:

symmetricalsounds wrote:it should be fine as long as your hard drive is 7200rpm.

Thats a good question. That information isnt available on the Apple website strangely :L

7200rpm hard disk is VERY important for audio. I'm pretty sure Apple don't ship 7200rpm hard disks with most Macs (god knows why!!)
but you can get a cheap seagate or western digital hard disk online. 500gb / 7200rpm is pretty cheap now.

I've got a black macbook with a similar spec

2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB of RAM
320GB Serial ATA Drive 7200rpm

and its fine for everything I use it for, dubstep production and recorded my old band (http://everyoneanarmy.bandcamp.com/) on it in Logic 9 using a lot of audio tracks / AU plugins and it coped well.

Promise One wrote:

synthless wrote:

symmetricalsounds wrote:it should be fine as long as your hard drive is 7200rpm.

Thats a good question. That information isnt available on the Apple website strangely :L

7200rpm hard disk is VERY important for audio. I'm pretty sure Apple don't ship 7200rpm hard disks with most Macs (god knows why!!)
but you can get a cheap seagate or western digital hard disk online. 500gb / 7200rpm is pretty cheap now.

I've got a black macbook with a similar spec

2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB of RAM
320GB Serial ATA Drive 7200rpm

and its fine for everything I use it for, dubstep production and recorded my old band (http://everyoneanarmy.bandcamp.com/) on it in Logic 9 using a lot of audio tracks / AU plugins and it coped well.

you can go for an upgrade to 7200 on a new macbook for 40 quid