Want To Buy My First Mac... Don't Know What I Need, trying to solve ignorance Options

[impl0dr]

well... i need some major help. i have been making music on my piece of crap pc for a couple of years. it is really slow, so i don't have many options as to what i can run on it. anyway... i'm looking to get serious about the whole music making thing and know that MAC is the way to go. i know some basics of what i want, but don't know enough about macs or making REAL music using REAL equiptment. so... on to what i know i want:

g4 laptop 12" or 15"
-i need a separate hard drive for my music. my wife intends to use this as her computer for her job too.


i know ABOUT firewire, but don't know anything about it. i do know that i can only get firewire 400 on the 12 and 15".


i have some synths, a 12 track mixer, a drum machine that i will adding to (of course) and would like to get to start really using them.


anyway, i don't know what's available as far as specs go or what i want/need to get in order to sucessfully create music.

so, as you can see... i need a lot of help here. i would like to make this purchase sooner than later and really appreciate your time. thanks

[boze]

i appreciate you trying to be light-hearted, but it still feels like you're trying to invalidate my thoughts on the subject. i'm talking about laptop value to somebody who's a newbie to electronic music and thinking about a mac laptop purchase. honestly, i don't know how active this board is and i doubt the original poster has even been back across. but still, it's unnecessary to act like you're the peacemaker while telling me sarcastically that my posts are too long and implying that i don't have respect for other peoples perspective.

the stuff i'm offering relates to the idea of buying a mac laptop to do electronic music. i think it's a well-intentioned thing to talk about pro's and con's of mac laptop ownership so that a new buyer goes in with their eyes open. i just think that value for your money is a con of mac laptop ownership because of the performance of single processor G4s in OSX.

if someone knew that lots of production ppl used protools setups and they were coming to the board with the false assumption that you needed to plunk down $2200 on a digi002 to do any serious music making on your computer- it would only be seen as lending a hand for somebody to come in with some info to the effect that you can spend way less and still get quality results from a home studio.

instead it's like nobody can bring up wintel without being taken to task as doing something profane. but then when the G5 towers get released all of the sudden speed and power are allowed to matter again? that's hypocritical i think.

This post has been edited by boze: Wed 17 Sep 2003, 16:49