Mac Mini and its uses

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cslot88

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Hey guys,

I'm thinking about getting a Mac Mini. It's purpose would be to serve as my music machine. I would have iTunes on it, with approximately 10,000 songs. I would also be plugging in a cheap mobo and a keyboard into it to work with Garageband.

So my question is...could a Mac Mini handle this? Would I need to buy extra RAM for this? Thanks for your input.

cslot
 
You have 10,000 digitized songs? Can I be your friend? That's awesome.

Just a heads up, I believe iTunes has a barrier in terms of how many songs it can handle in its library index.
 
Yeah I'm probably getting pretty close to the limit. I've got a 60 gig iPod and it's getting full too.

And yes of course you can be my friend. :p You wouldn't believe the amount of friends I've made just from my music library already haha
 
With 10,000 there's bound to be something for everyone. I use to have 100GB of music of various genre til my drive died. Haven't been too keen on rebuilding it lately, but it isn't safe with all the crack down either.

Hoping to get a Mini for similar reasons. My feeling is the Mini is more than capable of handling those remedial tasks with cycles to spare. I've ran Winamp with that aforementioned 100GB of music on much lesser machines and it was fine.
 
It is def up to the task. However, if you can afford it, I would highly recommend going for an intel version. Why? Well, for one even the core solo should have more power in garageband that the G4. Also, even if you get the low end intel (core solo), you'll be able to drop in a memron chip later on!

Def, def get at least 1GB of RAM, more if you can afford it. Don't the new intel ones use the same laptop ram as the iMac and such? If so, you could pick up 2GB of matched RAM over at newegg for like $150 shipped. Def worth it if you're serious about garageband.

Will a G4 work, OF COURSE! I'm just giving you my opinion of if it were me. Heck, I was looking for the very first mini to use as a server or somethin (and because they're the cheapest), but with the memron's coming I think I just talked myself into the core solo!
 
pick a g4 mini with the bigger HD and youll have a fantastic music machine.........the only issue being the actually audio outs....but I think it has optical
 
Awesome that sounds great, thanks for all of your input. Once I get my next paycheck I should be ready.
 
hungryduck said:
pick a g4 mini with the bigger HD and youll have a fantastic music machine.........the only issue being the actually audio outs....but I think it has optical
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only a headphone jack on g4 minis...

get an intel. it will handle what you wanna do with room to spare...

oh yea...1 gig of memory or more...nothing less...its a sin on a mac (a sin I am badly commiting, but Camera shit comes before computer shit now)
 
Right now I have 11,564 songs in my iTunes library, and everything is fine. I thought Apple took care of the index size problems when they released version 6 of iTunes. I did have problems with earlier versions of iTunes with the size of my collection though.
 
a ronin said:
Just a heads up, I believe iTunes has a barrier in terms of how many songs it can handle in its library index.
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I have had no problems so far........
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:D

I've seriously contemplated picking up a Mini and an external drive and hooking it up to my TV and then using Frontrow to stream all the music/videos I have.

Edit: I think you would be okay with 1gb of ram, I had 1gb in my dual 2.5ghz G5 for awhile and it was fine, but when I added another gig it felt a lot better.
 
I had 512mb in my older powerbook, which was able to do what you're specifying (867mhz G4)
 
clean_me said:
I have had no problems so far........
songs.jpg
:D

I've seriously contemplated picking up a Mini and an external drive and hooking it up to my TV and then using Frontrow to stream all the music/videos I have.

Edit: I think you would be okay with 1gb of ram, I had 1gb in my dual 2.5ghz G5 for awhile and it was fine, but when I added another gig it felt a lot better.
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Man and I thought I had alot with 180gigs worth of electronica :( hats off to you sir!
 
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