 Macos 9 Or Os X?, To buy a dual booting Mac or not? |
  Wed 9 Apr 2003, 10:23
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hi all!
I'd like to buy a new dual 1.25G Mac, but I have a doubt about it; I use a 9600/450, 640MB, OS 9.1, with Digidesign d24 card and Pro Tools 5.1.3, plus Native Instruments, and for this reason I'm planning to buy a dual booting Mac 1.25G to continue using my stuff; I dont know how PT 6 manage soft synths since Direct Connect it's dead, also, when the NI synths will be available for X? Please, if there is someone who made this upgrade, I'd need a suggestion about which mac to buy: dual booting mac or not? what I'd miss with Firewire 400 instead of 800? my last question: do I need to install a 10k or 15k rpm hard disk inside the mac to make 32 tracks playback without problems? if yes, what accelerator card suits best? thanks in advance peace zeze |
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Fri 18 Apr 2003, 07:24
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 04-Apr 03 From: Joseph - US Member No.: 15,524 |
I agree with tacoboy regarding having the new drive devoted to media. You could consider partioning a drive for your system software - I don't, but many do.
I've not had luck with serial port stuff in OSX, but I gave up easily - don't have any help to offer there. I also know there were some problems with SCSI cards in at least one iteration of OSX - again I gave up and moved on. Sorry I am not more help but it does sound like your hardware is suggesting a dual boot machine - you may find you stay in OS9 until you can work all the configuration issues out. My approach was different and not ideal - I simply forced myself to switch and layed aside all my legacy stuff - It's been a few years and I still haven't replaced everything. But I also have a few beige Macs around to use when I need to use some of that hardware. Also, firewire 800 holds some promise for the future so I have also been somewhat reluctant to jump into alot of SCSI or firewire 400 peripherals where speed is paramount. I hope to get a PCI card for firewire 800 as soon as available. |
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zeze Macos 9 Or Os X? Wed 9 Apr 2003, 10:23
ThorD I bought a dual-boot Mac (the iMac G4) and I am ha... Wed 9 Apr 2003, 11:52 rickenbacker I've been thinking hard about this myself, lat... Thu 10 Apr 2003, 12:32 tacoboy OK!
For starters moving from a 9600 to a G4 ... Thu 10 Apr 2003, 18:29 tacoboy OK!
For starters moving from a 9600 to a G4 ... Thu 10 Apr 2003, 18:33 tnitz 1) I wouldn't worry too much about Firewire 80... Wed 16 Apr 2003, 06:41 zeze hi tnitz, thanks;
my first and most important nee... Thu 17 Apr 2003, 11:08 tacoboy Zeze, if you buy a mac with the capacity to boot b... Thu 17 Apr 2003, 12:38 zeze hi tacoboy,
yes, I can partition the 1st hd in t... Fri 18 Apr 2003, 09:38
tacoboy Hi Zeze. Its better to keep your audio/video files... Fri 18 Apr 2003, 12:16 |
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