I'm a friendly, non-dev, cisgender guy from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, hiking, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 kitties + 1 greyhound.
Right on! Great point about being able to swap out the display. That is a bonus!
Also, good tip on the refurbished section... I would absolutely consider a refurbished device.
I also found an option for an M1 Mac earlier today on Craigslist that seems like a pretty sweet deal! I've sent a few questions to the owner to get some more info.
Yeah if you can get a good deal on a used one, definitely worth looking at — my only concern is that 8gb RAM config might be too low for some programs.
I'm actually not sure what the limiting factors usually are for music software, but RAM is often the thing you don't want to go lowest configuration on.
I'd read up on your RAM needs as part of the process.
I'm a friendly, non-dev, cisgender guy from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, hiking, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 kitties + 1 greyhound.
The bit of research I've done thus far has informed me that the new Mac chips have integrated memory and so perform pretty well but RAM can't be upgraded... I'm already somewhat familiar that Mac computers are a pain to upgrade, but this sounds particularly painful. Your advice (and Joe's elsewhere in thread) is convincing me that I should be cautious in this regard.
I'll totally be reading up on common RAM requirements for music-making.
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If aesthetics aren't a huge deal, I'd go with M2 Mac Mini — which lets you swap or upgrade your display later and has more bang for the buck.
But the iMacs are beautiful, and if it's going to be awesome to work on that machine, I'd go M3 iMac.
Either way, check out the refurbished section in your shopping process if there aren't big black Friday sales that overpower those.
Right on! Great point about being able to swap out the display. That is a bonus!
Also, good tip on the refurbished section... I would absolutely consider a refurbished device.
I also found an option for an M1 Mac earlier today on Craigslist that seems like a pretty sweet deal! I've sent a few questions to the owner to get some more info.
Yeah if you can get a good deal on a used one, definitely worth looking at — my only concern is that 8gb RAM config might be too low for some programs.
I'm actually not sure what the limiting factors usually are for music software, but RAM is often the thing you don't want to go lowest configuration on.
I'd read up on your RAM needs as part of the process.
Right on — good to know, Ben!
The bit of research I've done thus far has informed me that the new Mac chips have integrated memory and so perform pretty well but RAM can't be upgraded... I'm already somewhat familiar that Mac computers are a pain to upgrade, but this sounds particularly painful. Your advice (and Joe's elsewhere in thread) is convincing me that I should be cautious in this regard.
I'll totally be reading up on common RAM requirements for music-making.