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 dim. 18 juil. 2004, 10:18
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I hope someone can help me because I have spent too many hours looking at too much information, and my head hurts. I am simply buying a mac laptop for my boyfriend for his birthday - he is an electronic musician and that is the reason I am buying it, it is hard for an electronic musician to make music without a good laptop! I know he likes to use Digital Performer, Reaktor, I don't think he uses Pro Tools (though I do video/film making and I would love to use Pro Tools). I've done editing on G4 desktops that had at least 1 GHz CPU, but I haven't used the slower laptops and am not sure about the difference in CPU speeds. I am on a serious budget and have these options: G4 powerbook 500 MHz pretty used or G4 ibook 800 MHz pretty new. I have almost bought the powerbook, but I am worried about all this stuff I am reading about incompatibility with audio programs, etc. I will be maxing out the RAM (the powerbook has room for 1GHz, the ibook 640 MHz I believe) and getting an external Lacie drive. That is for sure. But which computer is faster/better? I don't see any serious musicians out there with ibooks. it's always powerbooks. If you made it through this rambling post, please help!
Also, if neither of these is good enough I could always bite the bullet and find an 867 MHz powerbook.
As a side note, how can you tell whether RAM is quality when you are buying it? Do you have to watch out for anything?
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
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mer. 28 juil. 2004, 15:03
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Well I think most musicians have powerbooks, because the ibooks until recently only had g3 processors and since performance is better with the g4, people bought them. However i think that since the ibook is now only slightly slower than the powerbook, and both use g4's that this point is no longer valid. Sure the powerbooks are still faster, but most users will be ok with an ibook. I'd definetly go for the 800 mhz ibook g4 over the 500 mhz powerbook... the most current ibook g4's have a 1ghz processor though...(12") Or see if you can buy a refurbed previous model powerbook at apple (either 867Mhz or 1 Ghz, see the refurb area at apple.com/store for offers) anyway, good luck and i'm sure your b/f will love the present... to even things out in the battle of the sexes, I just got my g/f an ipod mini 
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lun. 16 août 2004, 00:39
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Thanks to everyone! I did give in and spend more money and buy an 867 MHz 12" powerbook. I just kept thinking about him trying to do music, and I've tried to use Final Cut Pro on slower comptuers, and I know how frustrating it can be to just not have a fast enough computer. So since then he has basically been attached permanently to his computer. He already has cubase, reason, peak and a couple other programs I believe.
And since then, I have also bought a powerbook - a 12" 1 GHz. So now we look like a cute, spoiled couple. I love it.
Jared's now on this site, checking stuff out. I think his username is rephlexy22.
Thanks again to all!
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An old film where couples made love through a machine hooked up to their brains. They got the thrill without erm well, you know.