AMD's have better floating point processing therefore you can run more vsts.

i would get a AMD 64 bit 939 pin if possible depending on your budget. after xmas the prices will prob drop, also get the corsair ram which is ment for AMDs as this will increase the performance.cubase is running on 64 bit currently and in the future other software will be. the AMD 64 bit processing still does 32 bit very well.. just read the comments on http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/index.php

as for a sound card you might want to read the review for this card as it has both balanced and unbalanced.
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/esi-julia/

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I am buying a powerbook soon for Serato Scratch + Production. I was just wondering how the new 1.3Ghz Powerbooks stack up against PCs.

For instance, will I be better off using Reason or Fruityloops on my PC which is an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with a gig of ram? Or Logic on the powerbook which will be 1.3Ghz 768MB Ram?

I know alot of producers who say they produce on the road on their powerbooks, and was just wondering just how powerful they can really be.

powerbooks still have 5400 rpm hard disks not good for producing some even have slower hard disks i would not get one just based on that.

you would be better off getting a mobile athlon 64 laptop you wont need to upgrade for a long time and as i stated in the previous post "floating point" this is what make it so much better for the audio enviroment . as for the powerbook its coming out with old technology as stated above, something a lot of people dont seem to realise.

your athlon would be able to use more vsts as it has more Ram.it would out perform the powerbook in most tasks.but you cant really compare reason with the other hosts such as logic and fruity, someone posted over on KVR how reason uses low fi samples in their instruments if so then this is one reason why its much better on the CPU and the end product is not as professional sounding. is this true?

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Originally posted by jeronemango powerbooks still have 5400 rpm hard disks not good for producing some even have slower hard disks i would not get one just based on that. you would be better off getting a mobile athlon 64 laptop you wont need to upgrade for a long time and as i stated in the previous post "floating point" this is what make it so much better for the audio enviroment . as for the powerbook its coming out with old technology as stated above, something a lot of people dont seem to realise. your athlon would be able to use more vsts as it has more Ram.it would out perform the powerbook in most tasks.but you cant really compare reason with the other hosts such as logic and fruity, someone posted over on KVR how reason uses low fi samples in their instruments if so then this is one reason why its much better on the CPU and the end product is not as professional sounding. is this true?

I don't think anything like that has ever been proven. Alot of very good producers use reason.

Also, just wondering how come it seems so many pro's seem to use macs if pc's are better? Or does it just seem that Mac has alot of producer support?

im on a 2.26gghz
1 gig of RAM

soundblaster live soundcard (came with computer)

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Originally posted by hardikaveri something is wrong with that pc.. i got 800mhz amd duron and i can run like 4 vanguard +6-8 samplers in fruity

I use cubase and I've always been using it together with battery (I don't use battery anymore)

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Originally posted by sym I don't think anything like that has ever been proven. Alot of very good producers use reason. Also, just wondering how come it seems so many pro's seem to use macs if pc's are better? Or does it just seem that Mac has alot of producer support?

lol.......

brian, jeronemango was comparing a new amd 64bit processor with a powerbook. there's a very big difference in fact. now, if you stack up a new g5 dual 2.5 processor, against an amd, thats quite a different story. almost any of the g5 dual processors would pretty much beat out any pc. the thing is, if u want one of those g5's adequately equipped, it'll probably cost u about 2- 2 1/2 times more than a loaded pc. basically, if ur looking for a very economical yet powerful setup, definitely look into an amd 64 bit processor