 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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Mon 15 Nov 2004, 07:26
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 17-Oct 01 From: Rio de Janeiro Member No.: 2,064 |
Take a look on Hitachi's 7k60 hard disk... it's an 7200rpm internal HD avaliable for iBook/Powerbook with excelent performance and very efficient power/heat management.
According Hitachi: " Increasing the spindle speed to 7200 RPM, (...) , will improve the data rate by 71% over 4200 RPM drives and 33% over 5400 RPM drives. Latency will be improved by 42% and 25% respectively." I think external firewire restricts a lot in terms of portability... any way they still offer bigger capacity and lower cost compared to notebook HDs. |
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ambivilant Ibook 4200 Hard Drive Unsuitable For Daw Work? Sun 14 Nov 2004, 00:26
dockiki try OWC www.macsales.com,
get an external firewir... Sun 14 Nov 2004, 07:54 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 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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