Would you say it's got a flat response? I'm looking for a studio monitors that are small, very very small.
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- 13'' Late 2013 rMBP (2.6GHz, 8Gb RAM, 500Gb)
- Rain mStand
- 24'' ASUS VS247 Monitor
- iHome iBT97 Alarm Clock (Has Bluetooth)
- Xbox One
- Logitech K750 Solar Keyboard (highly recommend)
- Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse
- Thermaltake Dock with 1TB HDD for backups
They're pretty flat, the low end is missing a little, but mids and highs are pretty decent.
There's obviously MUCH better variants, but for the price these are very good.
I use them for mixing 90% of my tracks, then use my universities Gene's to perfect the low end.
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Got bored last week and thought I would have a go with my fisheye lens attachment for my 5S. Quality isn't too bad, but I could have most likely got a better result from my Hero, but meh.
Got bored last week and thought I would have a go with my fisheye lens attachment for my 5S. Quality isn't too bad, but I could have most likely got a better result from my Hero, but meh.
Since you have pretty similar specs on each machine, is either one designated to a certain task at all?
left is work and right is personal lol
the work one is about to be replaced with a new 27" :-D
Nice! Now they won't match perfectly tho
UGH tell me about it
I'm either gonna sell my personal one and get a MacBook Pro, or upgrade to a new 27".... can't decide
MacBook Pro with a big ole' cinema display would be nice, somewhat expensive tho
yeah that might be out of my budget by a little haha
would be nice though!
Here's one! ;-)
I haven't tried to clean up the wires. It's the same wires that were in the old Mac Pro, so it's not any better or worse. Actually one fewer wire, 2 SAS wires became one Thunderbolt.
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30".
So how are you liking the nMP, do you notice any performance improvements from your old one?
Monitors are 30" as AQUADock noted. I bought them 6-7 yrs ago; this is their third Mac Pro.
The new Mac Pro is quiet. Even running CPU @ 30% for 30 minutes, the chassis as a whole becomes quite warm but the fan remains <800 rpm. I can hear a sine wave UPS that is 15 ft behind me over the new Mac Pro 18 inches from me.
I haven't done any side-by-side comparisons. This was really about upgrading my secondary workstation from a Mac Mini that kept locking up and behaving badly with 30" displays.
Old Pro is a 2.4 ghz 12 core with the Mac Sapphire card. Aperture on the new Mac is definitely faster, and resuming a large memory development VM from the internal flash on the new Pro is materially faster than the Areca SAS RAID in the old Pro.
Too many words for a picture thread, so:
The new Mac Pro is quiet. Even running CPU @ 30% for 30 minutes, the chassis as a whole becomes quite warm but the fan remains <800 rpm. I can hear a sine wave UPS that is 15 ft behind me over the new Mac Pro 18 inches from me.
I haven't done any side-by-side comparisons. This was really about upgrading my secondary workstation from a Mac Mini that kept locking up and behaving badly with 30" displays.
Old Pro is a 2.4 ghz 12 core with the Mac Sapphire card. Aperture on the new Mac is definitely faster, and resuming a large memory development VM from the internal flash on the new Pro is materially faster than the Areca SAS RAID in the old Pro.
Too many words for a picture thread, so:
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Now that's one beautiful machine! Side note: any hope that the office page will be revived, Mitch? The black text on white is just boring now...
I am flattered that folks enjoyed the page so much, but it's not likely to come back any time soon. Unfortunately, a particular person who enjoyed the page crossed the line from enjoying into stalking both me and another famous office fellow to the point that it just quit being fun. :-\
OK, here's a pic from 2002. There were two G3s under the desk and some more monitors off to the left; I just never thought anyone would see these pictures. I think the only thing I still have in this picture is the green tape measure.
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