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 Sun 18 Jul 2004, 10:18
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I hope someone can help me because I have spent too many hours looking at too much information, and my head hurts. I am simply buying a mac laptop for my boyfriend for his birthday - he is an electronic musician and that is the reason I am buying it, it is hard for an electronic musician to make music without a good laptop! I know he likes to use Digital Performer, Reaktor, I don't think he uses Pro Tools (though I do video/film making and I would love to use Pro Tools). I've done editing on G4 desktops that had at least 1 GHz CPU, but I haven't used the slower laptops and am not sure about the difference in CPU speeds. I am on a serious budget and have these options: G4 powerbook 500 MHz pretty used or G4 ibook 800 MHz pretty new. I have almost bought the powerbook, but I am worried about all this stuff I am reading about incompatibility with audio programs, etc. I will be maxing out the RAM (the powerbook has room for 1GHz, the ibook 640 MHz I believe) and getting an external Lacie drive. That is for sure. But which computer is faster/better? I don't see any serious musicians out there with ibooks. it's always powerbooks. If you made it through this rambling post, please help!
Also, if neither of these is good enough I could always bite the bullet and find an 867 MHz powerbook. As a side note, how can you tell whether RAM is quality when you are buying it? Do you have to watch out for anything? THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU |
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Thu 26 Aug 2004, 05:04
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Good Job Cully!!!
I'm glad you saved abd pushed just a little further... There are many advantages to the unit you bought your boyfriend... I'm using a 1Ghz 12" PowerBook with Logic Audio Pro 6 and am very pleased with the results... Buying a PB over an iBook is a good choice for serious mucisians... My son just purchased his first 800Mhz G4 12" iBook (yeeeaaahhh!)... I can tell you from experience, My PB IS INDEED faster... And it's not just processor speed we're talking about... We have evenly matched units with 512Megabytes of Ram each... But, the PB still has a faster Bus which comes out in smoother operation and more tracks for audio programs... Congrats - And If you're boyfriend ever dumps you/?????!!!!!........ (Just kidding!)... -------------------- |
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cully More Beginners Help Sun 18 Jul 2004, 10:18
dasasoul more ram or faster processor? ... Mon 26 Jul 2004, 21:07 aptmunich Well I think most musicians have powerbooks, becau... Wed 28 Jul 2004, 15:03 Presto I'd love to know what happened. Your bf is a l... Sat 14 Aug 2004, 15:15 cully Thanks to everyone! I did give in and spend m... Mon 16 Aug 2004, 00:39 Presto Sounds like an improved Barbarella An old film wh... Mon 16 Aug 2004, 09:39
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