Making Macs Faster? Need Feedback... Options

[E rouge]

hello everyone. I am a new apple user. I have been a PC user for years, and I made the swich about 1 week ago. I always heard that apples were better for audio, so now I get to ee for my self. I came here because I wanted feedback and help from the apple users who are more fimilar with macs. here are my systems specs.

dual 867 mhz g4
1 GB DDR ram
60 GB hard drive
motu 828
logic 4.8
os 9.2


I have to use OS 9, because the lac of support for os X drivers and stuff. Any ways, I wass using an

AMD 1600 Xp (1.4 ghz)
50 GB HD,
logic 5.3,
XP PRO
640 DDR ram
motu 828


I was finding that when using peak 3 , that it was slower then my PC when importing mp3, or converting wave and AIFF. I was wondering, how can I make my mac fast?

it seems to me, as my mac is slower then my PC. The fastest mac now is only a 1.25 GHz, compared to PC GHZ. yes I know abut the GHZ myth, I dont want to get into that, but how fast is my mac, compared to a PC?

Do other mac users find their macs slow? I guess maybe I am just use to the speed of my old PC. Is there anyway I can increase the speed of my mac> I have 1 GB DDR ram, that should be more then enough. Anyone have an tips or tricks, or links on how to make my mac faster for audio?

thanks in advance.

Erick Rouge

[E rouge]

Yes, not vst support is horrible. I dont understand why apple wants to make our lives so hard. I love using halion and waves plugins. Now I cant. I doubt halion or steinburg are going to waste time on "audio units" when they have their VST.....

Now, all the people who have bought VST plugins and have learned them must switch and learn something else...

There is a huge learning curve when learning audio, and apple just made it harder. OS X and XP have been out for about the same time, and everything runs on XP flawless, even my motu 828, but not on apple. Motu is a mac friendly company yet they still have beta drivers for their firewire. I just dont understand. Alot of people have to make their living of this, and its becoming a real pain waiting half a year or long for companies to change.

After december 31, all new macs will not boot into os 9, and the OS window that pops up in OSX dont support logic, or apps like that. Plus the fact that OS X itself uses over 300 MB of your ram, on top of OS 9 , and on top of your app your running, performace is going to be very crippled if you buy a mac after december 31.