Imac Or Powermac?, do i need the power? Options

[kjartan]

Hi there!

I'll be starting an electronica group with a friend in the near future, and plan on getting a Mac with Apple's Logic Pro. We'll be programing drums, synths, virtual instruments and using the guitar modeling and synths in real time. This sounds like a huge load to process all at once, and was wondering if an iMac would give Logic enough juice. The portability and lower price is making me lean towards the iMac, but if we REALLY REALLY need the power of the dual 2GHz G5s, then so be it.

Any input you guys could give would be most appreciated.

Thanks!
--kjartan

[chmara]

I have been running on an iMac G5 with 2G ram, the 250 G internal and three 7200 RPM 8 meg cache drives (One Sound Libraries, One Loops and 1 allegedly back up.Logic and other sound (exclusivelly) devices on internal)

It was the Back-up drive that wiped out everything revently and it took about three weeks to get everything back together.

Cost-wise the iMac is a good machine -- but I miss the opportunithy to increase to 6 or 8 gig of ram. Even with DFD and larger cache on the externals, I feel the bang for the buck is the faster processing and covering ram hungry Piano libraries.....with enough layers to turn you into a miner. Add that with any Logic processing and some Wave post.....you need RAM.

Yes there is extra monitor cost -- and ram at the current market comes to an extra $1500 (total eight gig assuming you would get 2 minimum anyway) -- but you can fit a much faster Superdrive than in the iMac.

My rig on Software is Logic 7.1.1, Kontakt 1 & 2. Kompakt, Garritan Personal Orchestra, EWSO Gold, Morphology, Albino 2, SWARPlug, EhtnoWorld 3, Diva, AkoustiK Piano and a a slew of EXS 24 extras -- and not enough time to learn all that EXS 24 and all the other native pieces of Logic synths and machjines can do.....

The extra bucks in might be hard -- but will give better results, IMHO.

This post has been edited by chmara: Wed 12 Oct 2005, 06:19