 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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Sat 4 Oct 2003, 15:05
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 24-Sep 03 From: Bakersfield - US Member No.: 25,364 |
Wanted to let you all know I finally found a Powerbook G3 400 (Bronze) in great condition for $400. I'm adding a Sony CRX820E-10 I bought from pcboost.com for $94 that adds internal 24x cd-r burning. (The LITEON LSC-24081 Black bezel Combo drive would work as well - for Lombard or Pismo model)
Now that I have a powerbook I'm excited about the prospects of also using it to run Native Instruments' B4 organ instrument. I'm considering purchasing Edirol's or M-Audio's 49 key usb controller keyboard and using the laptop as a tone generator on the gig. I wonder if it will support recording the gig at the sime time since I've heard NI's B4 only takes around 5% of the mac's system resources. And now that I have a Powerbook I can just use the mic-in port with my Audio Technica stereo mic along with Bias Peak. Anyway, thanks again for all your help and advice. |
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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 derhamm Have you heard of the iMic? It's a USB analog ... Wed 24 Sep 2003, 18:40 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
boze hey derhamm-
that's great that you found the ... Sat 4 Oct 2003, 17:42 |
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