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

[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

[audioel]

Skylit,

Upgrading to Logic Pro on the mac alone is worth buying an ibook.

One thing you might consider is keeping your PC and running V-stack software on it, and using it for extra soft-synths and DSP power. Controlling it through MIDI from the ibook.

Personally, I think a 1ghz ibook is good enough for logic. Freeze helps you get a lot of mileage out of a slow computer. I use a 600mhz G3 ibook for remote recording and live shows, and it still does the trick. At home, I only have a dual 500mhz, currently running Logic Pro with TDM - but I also use a dell to run extra soft-synths.

Buy the ibook - it's sweet - But Logic 6 is awesome!

- AE