Which Of These Macs Would Make The Best Daw? Options

[rlwilliams]

Hi,

I'm a little behind the curve in keeping up with the latest and greatest computer. I have three potential computers to be my main DAW. I was wondering if anyone who knows DAW computers would give me your opinion about which of these three computers would be the best.

1) G5 iMac with 1.8 Ghz processor/20 in screen - 1 GB RAM

2) G5 Tower with 1.6 Ghz processor - 1 GB RAM

3) G4 Tower with Dual 1 Ghz - 2 MB L3 cache per processor - 1.5 GB RAM


If I added more memory to any of these, would that make a difference in the deciding factor. I know some can be upgraded.

Thanks for your time and input.

Sincerely,

Ronnie

[gdoubleyou]

All ot those machines are out of production, any of the current MacIntels would be two or three times more powerful.

Benchmarks show that the core2 duo Machines are faster thean former top of the line dual G5 Powermac towers.

Current machines with Core2Duo cpus are the newly refreshed mac Mini, Macbook, iMac, and Macbook Pro.

The Mac Pro's come standard with four cores of Xeon cpus,and the top of the line is the eight core model.

I suggest looking into one of the new MacIntels, because the PowerPC based cpus ( G3,G4, G5) will only have software support for a few more years.

Also even with Apple's satandard consumer software the Power PC support is being dropped. In the new iLife '08 suite iMovie only supports the newer Intel cpus.

[rlwilliams]

gdoubleyou,

Thanks for the reply. I know the lastest models are ones to drool over, but at this time, the three listed are where I am.

Which or these would be the best of the three for a DAW?

One of these days, when I can afford the lastest and greatest I'll check into the dual core etc., but since I'm just a music hobbyist, I don't feel the need to spend that much money right now.

Thanks for anyone's reply to which you would choose if these were the ones you had to pick from.

Thanks,

Ronnie

This post has been edited by rlwilliams: Fri 10 Aug 2007, 02:41