 How Much Processer Do I Need? |
 Fri 5 Sep 2003, 10:44
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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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Sun 5 Oct 2003, 22:42
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wizeman... while you seem to have plenty of CPU power to do what you want... what you may be lacking is an external drive for recording the audio on. When using your computer for recording... I think your hard drive plays a big role in how many tracks you can use... so the internal drive in your imac may work but not sure if it has the throuput to keep up with 24 tracks especially if at 24bit rates... so if you decide to take your recording to the software end... you might want to conisder an external firewire or SCSi drive
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