G5 With Ibm Chips Options

[petra]

Hi,

I'm getting ready to buy a new computer for my future studio. After emailing, posting messages in forums, long considerations etc. it looks like I will go in the direction of a PC.

Why? I talked to an employee of Apple, and he told me that if I buy a G4 today, I should be ready to sell it when new processors come out at the end of 2003.

I wanted to ask Mac users, what do you think about this new, what I think they call "G5" and what is it going to mean for you? Will your current software and recording hardware work with the G5?

Also, how is Cubase SX with OSX?

Please elnighten me, I might still change my mind and go Mac if it makes sense.

Petra

[Presto]

If you can afford the G4 tower and all the rest of the stuff you'll need, that's great.

Still, if you have a 'small' budget, I still say the G4 imac is probably quite sufficient. Even a second hand G3 imac will get you going a long way. You only need two audio I/O (in/out) + midi as you're working on your own, right? That doesn't stop you having loads of tracks in a session. If you don't spend 8hrs a day everyday on your mixing, you can manage with a good pair of headphones and your stereo set before investing $1000+ on monitors etc etc. If voice recording quality is important, the mics need to be good and they cost! Still, you could well be using them in 10 years time

We would all like the biggest and best for little money, but that doesn't work.

My G3 ibook is more than sufficient for what I want to do. Apparently OS9 needs less power and works quicker than OSX so I don't see the need to rush into OSX.

An idea: if you can get a very cheap G3 iMac (not the first ones - they make too much noise), by the time you find you need G4 tower power, they will have dropped much more in price than what you paid for the G3. That would give you time to determine your needs more precisely.

For what I need to do, the power of the computer is not important. I prefer spending money on the other stuff, but then I'm more interested in live imperfection than electronic perfection. In fact I hate perfection