Powermac G4 Dp Vs Ibook, need help Options

[mariuo]

hi there. im thinking about changing my ibook for a powermac g4 1ghz dp. i'll be multi-rec now so im thinking that my ibook wont be able to handle it. thing is though i dunno if this powermac im looking at will can you guys help me out? should i stay with my ibook or should i switch to a powermac g4 dp? thanks. ill be using a tapco blend 16 and an mbox1 as well. my ibooks specs are: 1.33ghz 60gb HD and 1.5gbRAM, the powermac im looking at is pretty much the same except for the processor speed which is 1ghz but dual. thanks you guys, sorry if this may seem a no brainer to some of you guys kind of a newb

This post has been edited by mariuo: Mon 24 Jul 2006, 05:49

[minskybabs]

THe powermacs are very upgradeable and you can have multiple hardrives and lots of connections, eg firewire 400 (sometimes Firewire 800?) and USB and sometimes USB 2 depends on the model. Check your connections, check your hardrive (at least 7200 Rpm this is the speed) most people want a seperate fast hard drive for audio, Powermacs can have this. You need loads (as much as possible) of RAM and a big hard drive and probably a firewire interface to have loads of channels. Powermacs can also have PCI sound interfaces so as long as the powermac does what you need, it should be good.

Obviously the ibook is more portable!! if you don't need to move around that is not a factor though! Check the video connector is compatible with the monitor you want. Otherwise they sound fairly similar.
Minskybabs.