 Ibook 4200 Hard Drive Unsuitable For Daw Work? |
 Sun 14 Nov 2004, 00:26
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It seems that next to RAM, the most important thing for a music machine is disk speed and 4200 is ridiculouisly slow, isn't it? I mean, for let's say a 7 minute song with y'know, 10 tracks or whatever, and a few softsynths, will an iBook with 512 end up queuing audio onto the hard drive and slow to the point of uselessness?
It's too bad the iBook doesn't come with a 5400 hard drive option; I'm left with a jump from a $1000 laptop to a $1600 one, and it's depressing because I really wanted to get a mac too. But the iBook has everything I need except that. Maybe I'm wrong, is the HD really that important after all? |
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Sun 14 Nov 2004, 07:54
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 13-Oct 04 From: Austin - US Member No.: 53,134 |
try OWC www.macsales.com,
get an external firewire 7200rpm HD, much better for audio than even the 5400.... run your apps from the ibook, keep the audio files on the external drive. very speedy. OWC is good stuff and not so expensive. the one I bought has firewire 400 and 800 ports, and has an 8mb buffer. 120gb, maybe about $175 US. you can put video on these drives as well. no problems with mine. (and it is quiet). |
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ambivilant Ibook 4200 Hard Drive Unsuitable For Daw Work? Sun 14 Nov 2004, 00:26
ambivilant Well, I don't mind waiting for audio files to ... Sun 14 Nov 2004, 18:02 dockiki I think a general rule of thumb is to always get a... Sun 14 Nov 2004, 23:17 ambivilant Hm, how quiet is the OWC? I'm going to be rec... Mon 15 Nov 2004, 01:02 roque Take a look on Hitachi's 7k60 hard disk... it... Mon 15 Nov 2004, 07:26 ambivilant Yeah, but replacing the internal hard drive on the... Mon 15 Nov 2004, 17:39 Dave Bourke Plus it takes about four hours to replace the iBoo... Tue 16 Nov 2004, 18:13 roque I paid for a service in exchanging my last iBook... Wed 17 Nov 2004, 06:41 divan afaik a drive with 5400 is the only option you hav... Thu 18 Nov 2004, 08:47 Dustan Dear all,
I used an Ibook 300mhz(!!) with... Thu 18 Nov 2004, 09:26 roque divan,
7200 rpm notebook drives uses the latest ... Thu 18 Nov 2004, 13:40
divan thank you guys
now i know i was wrong. i did a re... Thu 18 Nov 2004, 18:41 |
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