iPad Air

[Andrew Robinson]

I'm getting increasingly into heavy duty motion graphics work that is very processor and graphics card intensive, and my 2008 Mac Pro won't run lion, let alone mavericks, so I've made the opposite choice. Thanks to some hefty educational discounting, there will be a black cylinder in my future. The iPad air didn't have to wait, and is rather lovely!

- Andy_R

Btw, I don't know if this is still true, but the cost of signing up with Apple as a developer used to be much less than the discount on Macs you got as a developer.

> On 3 Nov 2013, at 16:01, Kim Johnsson <johnssonkim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys!
> 
> Sonar has since 2008 been misbehaving to such an extent that I've decided to go the Mac & Logic way. Doubtless that combination will introduce a different set of frustrations, but I simply can't go on with Sonar anymore, as I've lost my work because of it crashing too may times than I care to remember. Also, I've had a MacBook Air for some time now, and I really like OSX, and some of the new features of Mavericks are exactly what I want in a desktop machine. I'll probably be getting a 27" iMac with 256 GB flash drive. I don't see how I would need more fast storage; I seldom work on that many songs at a time, and I don't use software samplers with huge sample libraries that stream from the HD. I actually even considered the new Mac Pro, but apparently it would require going minimum six cores to have any substantial benefit over the iMac (for graphics it's probably a different matter, and I don't do graphics). The iMac's new Haswell should be roughly equivalent to the Mac Pro's Xeon with four cores, and the cost of even the most lightweight Mac Pro is far from lightweight, so the iMac it is. I hope to order it next week. The iPad Air has to wait :-(
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kim
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It looks worth it from the drum synths alone. From what I can tell/hear from the site, as far as standard drum sounds you might never really need other samples again? I'm interested to see if plug-ins integrate better into the system. The studio looks cool, but those screens look like they don't really enhance things that much, and I heard you can't see plugins on them. 
>> 
>>> On Nov 2, 2013, at 8:33 PM, deeplfo <deeplfo at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> My turn: 
>>> 
>>> Maschine 2.0 Update @$99.  It's a nice update, with a completely redesigned UI and browser, on the surface, and workflow and audio engine updates under the hood.  Really good upgrade.  The whole Maschine Studio hardware doesn't do anything for me, the current level of hardware access I have is good enough, as most of the work is in the DAW anyway.
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