Going To Get Myself A Computer., Any Tips? |
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Jul 1 2008, 10:07 PM
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A faster hard drive minimum 7200rpm is recommended for comfortable work in DAW. You don't need that Audigy card, the most cheap integrated chip will do just fine because you will by interface anyway.
Other than that it is a great machine. Also that integrated graphics card can cause troubles with Vista Aero, but you can turn off the visuals anyway. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Jul 2 2008, 06:32 AM
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I believe 2,4Ghz Duo is more than enough for you.
 My old PC was 2,8Ghz Pentium 4 but I never managed to load it more then 70% of its power. I had 2GB ram and sometimes it got overloaded because of many VSTs I used to run at the same time. So this configuration you're talking about is gonna work like a candy.
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Jul 2 2008, 06:04 PM
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When it comes to music (and media) production I'd have to say that Apple tend to have a more tightly integrated system whether it's with ProTools or Logic and the related peripherals then the pc. Also Apple laptops are not that much more in price retail wise now then the equivalent spec major name pc ones - at least where I am.
However if you need the laptop for more then media production then as Koopid says the pc tends to have more software. Another issue - pcs (including laptops) are, in my experience, easier to repair and the range of spares is better and prices lower then for Apples. Personally both me and my wife use Sony pc laptops and have not (touch wood) had a problem with them. However we get them at a good discount from Sony Europe - if we had to pay full price we'd probably now go with Apple. Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jul 2 2008, 10:52 PM
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QUOTE (Freebird @ Jul 2 2008, 07:16 PM)  Tony now all Apples use the same hardware as PC so that's not a problem  ... Very true Freebird - it's my age, I still tend to think of Apples as being on a motorola chip set . That and dream about RISK computer chip sets and nightmares about my old Commodore Pet  .Apple laptop clamshells though are a pig in my experience to get in to if you want to do anything more than replace RAM. Or they were the last one I did - very nearly cracked the case doing it  - and you pretty much void the warranty as soon as you open the clam. (Wasn't my Apple so if I had  .) Same with mass produced pcs but most of them are much easier to get into and you can usually make your entry and exit pretty clean . Apple branded spares/upgrades do seem to cost a fair bit more then equivalent non-Apple and like you say most parts are now pretty much generic. I'm not sure what happens to an Apple warranty if you put in non-Apple branded spares though - even if you don't crack the clamshell ...Anyway I would still say that there isn't that much difference in price now and Apple - at least for music production - offers a much more tightly integrated solution. It's interesting that some of the expensive pro-end hardware specialists (ie SST, Apogee, Aurora, Prism etc) launch products on Apple OS platforms long before (if at all) you get a pc version. Hard drives and backups - as javari says ALWAYS backup your essential stuff to a separate and external harddrive and also try to keep an upto date mirror image burnt to a DVD or similar via Ghost or similar. Again as javari says - a freefall sensor much rather have a backup .Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jul 2 2008, 11:57 PM
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QUOTE (Freebird @ Jul 2 2008, 10:29 PM) Wow that was a looooong time ago Apples were on motorola processors ! Unfortunately I got to the age of having access to a computer only when windows 95 was around  Then they were already based on PowerPC!I don't have any experience with Apple's notebooks, but I do with iPods and iPhones, and they ARE very difficult to open, at least without screatching the outer case... They unfortunately think that little plastic hinges are a substitute for a screw (my scooter is like this too...  ) . Instead most other phones/media player have nice screws which are very easy to open and fiddle about with you just need that silly 10-point star screwdriver and you can open most industrial products (and take your hard disks apart when they break! They're cool inside!)... Pre Win95 - heck now I fell old  !10-point star screwdrivers for the win imho - one of my fav essential tools . I still believe that if something can be put together it can be taken apart, fiddled with and reassembled - doesn't always work well with heat sealed plastic clams or plastic hinges though .Once had a boss who took a brand new, very expensive, electron beam gun to bits fresh out of the box without waiting for the company's engineer to install. He dropped it, couldn't get it together again, so he reboxed it, sealed up the container and played innocent when the engineer arrived to install it . Biggest and most expensive thing I've ever brutalised though was a quadrapole mass spectrometer back in the early 1990s (about 250 UK Sterling new then). We wanted but couldn't afford a new HPLC/MS/MS so did it ourselves. Lots of fun though I remember it was a bit of a pig working out the internal geometry to get the right place to drill out the casing. It did work though  .Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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