Can a Mac Mini handle it?

At the moment, I'm recording, editting and mixing all on my macbook. I'd like to get a new computer for Logic, so I have mac that staying in my home studio and handles audio and nothing but.
Could a mac mini be that computer? I ideally want to be running up to 32 channels of audio, max. Would a mac mini be able to handle it all and the cpu thats demanded while using Logic or Pro Tools.
Cheers

fuzzynormal wrote:
"my MacBook Pro (2.66Ghz Duo) is not powerful enough to handle my mixes."
I don't know what you're doing, but I mix my (rock) band's stuff, which is usually 24 to 32 tracks on a 2.16 Duo with 2GB of Ram. MO is 16 channel live recording and then additional overdubs bringing up the track count. It always works okay for me...
Agreed. My MBP is slightly slower than the 2.66 listed above, and it hasn't yet put up much of a fight with me when I've used it to mix fairly hefty projects with a lot of audio, sampler tracks and a full spectrum of plug ins. All while running video. OK so I use a UAD2 laptop card as well, but that's only for certain plugs, plenty of native stuff too.
Actually it's only just now with the new i7 MBP that I think it's time for me to think about upgrading, which for me is pretty surprising for a laptop I've had since late 2006. Of course the Mac Pros in the studio are a different matter entirely, but honestly I think it's nonsense to say that you can't pull off a reasonable (or even quite unreasonable) mix on these machines. I don't really see them as laptops anyway, not like what Powerbooks used to be like when there was an enormous rift between what a real desktop machine could do and what a portable could do. Sure there's still a rift, maybe even a bigger one now, but the reality is that for audio work, recent laptops are more like a lower powered desktop replacement than some kind of portable email and text editing machine.

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