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[radiohead]

I am about to buy a new mac. My budget is under $2000 for the computer itself. Ive found the 400 G4 powerbook and the 733 G4 tower to be priced about the same. Obviously, the 733 tower is alot faster than the powerbook im looking at. But it seems that bjork, radiohead, etc... all talk about using powerbooks all the time. I know that having a portable unit would be great ease for transportation. But I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions on which i should get. Are there any advantages to the powerbook (other than portability, which is quite limited with the tower) over the tower? Also, i know that ill need some audio input..which ive seen is discussed on this site quite alot. Im just wondering if this would play into which computer i get. Im interested in getting a soundinput thats pretty cheap but still decent. Do these come on the towers? Or do you always have to buy a sound input seperate? FUrthermore...i would like to use my computer as a sampler...any suggestions on this? what software is good or would one be wise to just buy a separate sampler? any info contributed would be greatly appreciated. thanks so much. justin

[Synthetic]

Unless you like being tied down to a workstation, I would suggest the G4 Titanium laptop. It is fast enough to handle almost anything you throw at it and think of the possibilites as far as your music creation. With a laptop, you can take your music on a trip or to a friends house, school or whatever. With a desktop system... yes you do get more horsepower for the buck but you are forced to one area for audio work unless you like carrying your tower and monitor all over the place.

I have a Blue and White tower G3 running ProTools LE and love it but I can't wait until I can afford a new computer and it will be a G4 laptop. There has been many times I wished I could work on music away from the house or heck... maybe just in another room.

So it all depends on your needs. If sitting in one area is fine for your music work... then by all means a G4 tower is great. But I would suggest a laptop just for the convience of portability.