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pigtails View Member Profile	Fri 5 Sep 2003, 10:44 Post #1
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 05-Sep 03 From: Bristol - UK Member No.: 24,192	i am looking to buy a g4 powermac to run protools on. for the time being i will be using protools free, with a view to purchasing a m box later in the year. my tutor at college told me it's best to get a g4 with 1gig processor. however i have come across someone selling a g4 powermac and it's got 800mhz processor, 512ram 40gighard drive and is running os9 and os10.2. i am under the impression that i need os9 to run certain plug ins- if u know what i mean. i dont really understand about os. the bloke says it boots up in either os9 or os10. will this make a difference as to how it will run? i'm really confused.......please help me.

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pigtails How Much Processer Do I Need? Fri 5 Sep 2003, 10:44

duelectrum Hi, I will tell you what's my experience with ... Fri 5 Sep 2003, 18:56

Synthetic here is a good example for you I run PTLE 5.3 on ... Fri 5 Sep 2003, 21:47

boze 'always buy the fastest computer you can affor... Wed 24 Sep 2003, 17:27

Synthetic QUOTE (boze @ Sep 24 2003, 10:27)'always ... Wed 24 Sep 2003, 18:52

wizeman Just a quick q... I *have* a iMac G4/800, and tod... Sun 5 Oct 2003, 21:33

Synthetic wizeman... while you seem to have plenty of CPU po... Sun 5 Oct 2003, 22:42

wizeman Well, speak of the devil... I have a 160 GB ext FW... Mon 6 Oct 2003, 14:10

boze do we know folks here who have given the thumbs up... Mon 6 Oct 2003, 17:13

Synthetic well if only 2 inputs doesn't bother you... wh... Mon 6 Oct 2003, 19:08

mersisblue PLEASE READ PRO TOOLS WILL NOT RUN IN CLASSIC N... Fri 14 Nov 2003, 04:37

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