Is It Worth Switching To Mac?, Will a 1GHz iBook G4 handle it? Options

[Skylit]

Hello everyone,

I've been using Emagic Logic on PC for years, and now am absolutely used to it. However, as it is now owned by Apple and future support has been limited to Mac only, I find myself at a really stupid situation (and I guess many Windows Logic users are)...

I need to get myself a laptop (moving abroad for a while), but can't decide which way should I go. I'm on a really limited budget, and I have only two options available:

1. Get a 14" iBook G4 1 GHz (or 1.2 GHz at most) with 256 MB RAM, and continue working with Logic.
2. Get a Portable 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 or Athlon XP 2400+ with 512 MB RAM and switch to a different sequencer (Cubase SX perhaps).

I can't decide on this, and this dilemma has been killing me for the last couple of months. I've thought of many variants. These two choices are all I can afford at the moment. I would like to save for a better Mac, but I simply can't.

Keep in mind that I mostly use soft-synths and plug-ins. Only vocals are audio tracks. I don't mind "freezing" tracks time to time, but I wonder if a 1 GHz G4 iBook would be a wise choice in my case?

I want to stay with Logic, I need power, and I need it to be portable. And I'm on a budget.

What would you suggest?
I thank you all in advance!

[jacobw]

For what its worth,

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As far as the processing power of the iBook while running Logic; check out OSX Audio as well. There are a great deal of Logic users there, and I know a couple of them use iBooks or PowerBooks in a similar fashion to that you're trying to do.

I do think that investing in an external 7200 rpm FireWire hard drive would be wise, as the low rpms of the internal drives do have a small impact on performance.

I'm running an iBook G4 800mhz machine with ProTools LE 6.4 undeer OS X, and have been quite happy with the processing power. I do have 640mb of RAM in the machine, however.

-Jacob W