 Buying Mac Portable To Record/burn Cds, Help finding cheepest/fastest solution |
 Wed 24 Sep 2003, 16:05
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I need a laptop to record band rehearsals with my stereo mic and burn rehearsal cds for band members afterwords quickly. I noticed 24x burners on ebay for $150 that fit in Lombard or Pismo Powerbook G3s so it seems like I could buy them all for around $500. Does anyone know if this is my best solution and/or if any other lowend/earlier mac portables (ie. Wallstreet) can support internal cd burners?
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Wed 24 Sep 2003, 18:40
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 24-Sep 03 From: Bakersfield - US Member No.: 25,364 |
Have you heard of the iMic? It's a USB analog audio input device for around $35. I've heard it works really well with ibooks.
I guess my main goal, which I should have stated earlier, is to spend less than $500 on a 2 track audio recording/24x cd-r burning machine. My alternative is an Avery mp3 recorder for $250 - $350 that also records wav files. That is, until the iPods have a recording feature.  But even so I'd still have to take it home and transfer audio to my desktop G3 before burning cds.I might find a Powerbook G3 333 Lombard on ebay for around $350 and put the $150 CD-RW/DVD drive in it. I'm thinking, even if it's got a small hard drive I can eithernet between my desktop g3 with it's 160GB Hard drive space to back up my audio files. I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else has found another solution for the same or less $$ |
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derhamm Buying Mac Portable To Record/burn Cds Wed 24 Sep 2003, 16:05
boze ack! ebay has these old G3 pbooks going for li... Wed 24 Sep 2003, 16:47 derhamm Wow, thanks for all the info! I thought Lombar... Wed 24 Sep 2003, 17:24 boze hi derhamm-
yeah, i'm sorry if my post was a ... Wed 24 Sep 2003, 17:46 derhamm Have you heard of the iMic? It's a USB analog ... Wed 24 Sep 2003, 18:25 boze yeah, that would work fine for that budget and it ... Wed 24 Sep 2003, 18:58 urbanmatador QUOTE i think the imic is pretty chumpy but that... Thu 25 Sep 2003, 05:45 rickenbacker Derhamm, I don't think you'll be happy wit... Thu 25 Sep 2003, 16:47 derhamm Wanted to let you all know I finally found a Power... Sat 4 Oct 2003, 15:05
boze hey derhamm-
that's great that you found the ... Sat 4 Oct 2003, 17:42 |
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