Want To Buy My First Mac... Don't Know What I Need, trying to solve ignorance Options

[impl0dr]

well... i need some major help. i have been making music on my piece of crap pc for a couple of years. it is really slow, so i don't have many options as to what i can run on it. anyway... i'm looking to get serious about the whole music making thing and know that MAC is the way to go. i know some basics of what i want, but don't know enough about macs or making REAL music using REAL equiptment. so... on to what i know i want:

g4 laptop 12" or 15"
-i need a separate hard drive for my music. my wife intends to use this as her computer for her job too.


i know ABOUT firewire, but don't know anything about it. i do know that i can only get firewire 400 on the 12 and 15".


i have some synths, a 12 track mixer, a drum machine that i will adding to (of course) and would like to get to start really using them.


anyway, i don't know what's available as far as specs go or what i want/need to get in order to sucessfully create music.

so, as you can see... i need a lot of help here. i would like to make this purchase sooner than later and really appreciate your time. thanks

[greatscott94]

Hello Boze!

I understand that you are just stating your opinion, but I'm sure you can understand that this being a MAC Music site I take some offence someone registering to the site with what seems to be an agenda to convert Mac users over to PC. This world is already about 98% PC, I don't think it needs to be 100%. I'm not going to get into a debate about specs as I am not all that informed with them. All I know is I own a 12" PowerBook with 867mz, 40 gig internal HD, 80 gig external HD and 640 RAM and I love it and I would recommend it to anyone.

I'm sorry if I misinterpreted your intentions, I am not trying insult anyone, and I am sorry for turning impl0drs question into a debate. I will reply to his question later.Thanks.