Once you go Mac..

[Andrew Robinson]

Fusion drive is a great idea if you need to avoid external drives (ie you have a laptop) but I'm not sure they make sense otherwise. You're going to have lots of studio hardware anyway, so I'd add a cheap 4tb external and I'd go for at least 512gb ssd internal instead. In a few years when spinning disks are fully replaced by ssd, you can swap the 4tb over or relegate it to a sneaker net backup drive. This is my setup at the moment, I do everything on the ssd and archive to the external... I regret not getting a 1tb ssd, but then I do a lot of heavy video editing. If you plan on a dual boot with windows you might need 1tb too.

FireWire to lighting should be fine. 

The retina is something you might be kicking yourself about in a few years if you don't get it, with 4k being heavily pushed for consumer TVs soon, non retina capable machines will look dated in a couple of years imho... Plus you'll be able to edit 4k footage beautifully on the 5k screen - I don't know if this is a factor for you?

- Andy_R

> On 24 Feb 2015, at 15:35, Tony Scharf <entropymagnet at noisetheorem.com> wrote:
> 
> So...my PC DAW died a sudden agonizing death. My data is secure and backed up, but it like looks like the mother board might be hosed. It's been acting up for a while, and the diagnostic I ran showed too many red lights to trust it with production going forward.
> 
> So, I'm looking at getting my first Mac. This was the third PC I've had go bad not long out of warranty, and I'm looking to make a switch. My wife's MacBook has been wonderful for her, so I'm just going to suck it up and pay the apple tax.
> 
> Right now I'm looking at an iMac 27 inch. Probably not a retina since it will shave some cost. I know to upgrade RAM myself. 
> 
> What should I do for storage? What's a fusion drive compared to a flash(I imagine that's Apple speak for SSD?).
> 
> Also, how reliable are FireWire to Lightening adapters?  I'd rather not also have to upgrade my audio interface.  
> 
> What does the bar suggest?  
> Tony
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