Keep it or Sell it... Mac and PC
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Posted on May 15, 2009 06:16 am
webstersp
Member Since: May 15, 2009
Well I have a very powerfull pc.
Intel Q6600 with 4gb Mushkin Ascent Ram, 1 TB hard drive 32mb cache + 320 gig hard drive, 24 inch screen, Ati 4870 512mb, vista 64 etc...
My pc is big, I paid 1626$can for it, and I can sell it 1600$ right now.
I also just bought from ebay for home recording purpose: M-audio fast track Ultra, M-audio BX5a Deluxe and Protools m-powered 8.
I never tried a mac but may be tempted to go and buy one. I will have to move the computer around to where my band practice to record drums. Imac seems to be easy to move.
Or maybe a pc laptop. I am jsut affraid of vista stability and don't want to loose everything. And mac laptop are to costly for me. I want to use the 1600$ of the copmuter I am selling.
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May 15, 2009 07:38 am In my opinion, $1600 in the Mac world won't get you anywhere near the power you have now...and that's coming from a Mac guy. I say stick with what you have and learn to use it well. Save up for better mics or software plugins or something. Moving a computer is a hassle, true, but it's worth it.
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Jim
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
Since: Jun 20, 2006
May 15, 2009 12:36 pm If you can sell your Q6600 system for $1600 then do it. Then go buy yourself a new PC that will be more powerfull, cost less, and spend that extra money on mics :)
May 15, 2009 06:17 pm The problem is that I have 4gigs of memory and use Vista 64. I bought Protools m-powered 8 it does not support vista 64. So I really don't know what to do. Will ubuntu linus work for this?
Do i switch back to windows xp and lsoe 1 gig of memory?
dual boot...!?
May 15, 2009 06:21 pm I'd say forget m-powered and go for something like Sonar or Cubase...
May 15, 2009 06:52 pm I have work a lot this last 8 months on pro tools and fell in love with it.
I help record my bassist otehr band. It gave me the opportunity to discover Protools wich now I really want to use!
I may sell my pc and buy an Imac jsut for this...
May 16, 2009 05:58 am It may be worth talking to Digi and seeing if/when they are going to support Vista64...or, just buying a copy of XP and using it...it seems silly to dump a decent PC for the issue.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
May 17, 2009 05:57 pm And you will find buying the cheap iMac will end in disaster as it is not easily upgraded at all. So you will be stuck with what you have when it runs out of power.
I don't know too many running PT on an iMac though either that are doing big projects.
