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Cheap G5 Power Mac's
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| Anomyst |
At the moment they are around $3100 to $3200 for the Base model but with quad core technology coming in i would only assume these prices will drop a little as its an old product line now.
Anyone know much about mac's?
For Audio everyone keeps telling me to go with a mac but looking at the specs on a Mac as apposed to the specs on a PC. I know which one i would prefer...
What makes a mac so good for Audio? that you cant do with a PC? |
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| charlee |
| *flicks blonde hair around* |
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| minski |
Even though macs specs may seem lower than your average pc they seem to handle system-intensive processes alot better. I use one primarily for graphics and it's much faster than a Windows PC doing the same thing. It was previously using the PowerPC architecture that would give a mac the upper hand, but theyll be switching most or all of their products to Intel CPU's in the near future.
Many are saying the changeover will begin at the next mac convention in January. Apple changed from PowerPC to Intel apparently because PowerPC were lagging behind in terms of keeping their CPU's up to date with the market's latest speeds. Apparently the change to Intel will make macs cheaper so Id be waiting until then. Of course how this affects the mac's upper-hand in sound/visual production is unknown until then. I doubt it'd get worse though, since Apple has a large professional A/V market. |
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| christos |
don't forget to mention G5's and Tiger offer true 64 bit processing as Tiger is a 64 bit OS as is the G5.
Mac's are generally preferred due to their stability. They can hold plenty in memory and not themselves like pc's can when you're halfway through a project and you get a GPF or a dialog prompting that there was an error and need shut the app down. lovely.
don't decided solely because other artists use them, play with both and find the one you can live with. |
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| PauLie_C |
| *waves his blonde hair too* |
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| Psygnosis |
sheez just wait until the Macintosh make their operating system compliant with Intel Processors.
It's coming out next year. |
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| Anomyst |
| quote: | Originally posted by PauLie_C
*waves his blonde hair too* |
Put your pants back on Paulie! |
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| DaveBegic |
If you buy any damn pc by today's standards it'd be quite suitable.. I wouldn't lose sleep over it. I know some guys who have written awesome tunes on P 3 1000 mhz pc's with 256 ram, and onboard sound..
"It's not the tool.. only how you use it"
or..
"it's not the tool, you're a tool"
:D
Like the pana said though, go and test drive these things yourself and decide what you feel best comfortable with |
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| Anomyst |
This is The PC system I will most probably stick with, but just exploring all avenues.
Case: Antec SuperlanBoy Sonata 2 450W - Silent
Graphics Card: 256Mb 7800 GT VIVO
Sound Card: M-Audio Delta 10/10 LT
Motherboard : Gigabyte 8I945p Pro
Processor: Intel Pentium 4-8XX 3.2 G (Dual Core)
Ram/memory: 2G (2X 1G) DDR2 Ram
HDD: Twin 150 GB HDD
Mouse: MX 518 Mouse
Keyboard: Logitech
Monitors: M1400D19U - Dell™ 1905FP 19" UltraSharp LCD Monitors (X2) |
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| Psygnosis |
rich kunt
I WANT that graphics card bitch!
actually the GTX is better. |
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| PauLie_C |
| quote: | Originally posted by Anomyst
Put your pants back on Paulie! |
lol, they are on :) |
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