Wayne Priestley

My first thoughts on the SnowFlake mic from Blue.

It’s a nice piece of tech for sure, only let down a little by the detachable white plastic back-piece which is used to store the USB cable inside the mic housing when put together.

The Snowflake appears well built and solid, once detached from the plastic back-piece and placed on the top of my MBP the small pads on the inside of the body prevent any damage and stop the mic from sliding across the top of the screen if the MBP is moved.

Now for the sound…

Strange though it may seem, I can’t actually comment on the quality of the audio from the SnowFlake.
I’m the only person from the list of people I’ve spoken to so far that hasn’t actually heard my audio from the Snowflake, saying that all the comments are positive so far, with the SnowFlake delivering clear and good sounding audio.

It seems that the SnowFlake can be placed at some distance from you while still delivering excellent results, which turned out to be rather a funny tale while trying to explain the placement of the mic during a recent Mac20Q roundtable discussion.

That story aside for now I would say that the SnowFlake can still deliver excellent results even while placed 3 feet away.

So my investment in the SnowFlake seems well worth it so far, I’m hoping to hear some of the audio soon so I’ll be able to tell for the first time just how good it actually is.

After trying for an hour without success to join in the chat on a Mac20Q roundtable meeting using my internal mic on my MBP I decided to splach out some cash on the SnowFlake USB microphone from Blue.

Not the cheapest Mic available for the Mac, but I’ve read nothing but good reviews about the SnowFlake.

The best deal I found was from Dolphin Music.
At £10 cheaper than most other online retailers I feel I got a good deal.

Features

. Unique design fits on your desktop or laptop.
. Plug ‘n’ Play – no software needed.
. Perfect for podcasting, internet telephony, voice recognition software, movie narration & music.
. Mac & PC compatible.
. Includes USB cable.

So the new Mac Mini is here and now I have to decide if I should hit that purchase button or not.

The decision should have been simple, buy a Mac Mini for my Son (his first Mac) and buy a Mac Mini to use as a media center.

So I was all ready and just needed Apple to update the Mini and I was sorted.
But along with the update came the price increase…..

Now there’s a spanner in the works, two Mac Mini’s will cost me £1000.00 Hmmm.
A 20″ iMac for my Son will be a little less than that and he gets a monitor keyboard and mouse thrown in.

I’d have to do without the media center but I could live with that (I think).

Or do I wait a while and try to get two refurbished Mac Mini’s from Apple?

It’s something I’m going to have to think about for a few weeks.

On a side note… Have Apple increased the Mac Mini price so it’s not so appealing as an alternative to the Apple TV, as the UK price difference between the 160GB Apple TV and Mac Mini was only £130.00 now its £240.00……..

I’ll be spending the next few days putting my Tech Page back together and getting it posted by the weekend hopefully.

It’s a list of the Tech I have bought over the past couple of years that some of you may like to see.

There’s also a page of Wallpapers I’ve collected that I’ll post for anyone to download, thats going to take a little longer to code so I’ll probably get it started over the coming weekend.