Considering a PowerMac...

[MattZani]

Thought about Selling your Macbook and getting a MacBook Pro?

 

[leighonigar]

What exactly are you doing? You're 100% that your problems are CPU based not RAM or disk?

 

[nicdic]

My MacBook wouldn't fetch much I doubt. It's pretty worn, and there are two cracks in the plastic around the keyboard, and it's American and I'm in the UK. But the thought had crossed my mind.

On the topic of my MacBook, the disk is pretty much full, and I've maxed the RAM, can't put more than the 2GB I already have.

I basically want a desktop to mix on at home. I can record with the MacBook, but it can't handle multi channel processing.

 

[leighonigar]

My MacBook wouldn't fetch much I doubt. It's pretty worn, and there are two cracks in the plastic around the keyboard, and it's American and I'm in the UK. But the thought had crossed my mind.

On the topic of my MacBook, the disk is pretty much full, and I've maxed the RAM, can't put more than the 2GB I already have.

I basically want a desktop to mix on at home. I can record with the MacBook, but it can't handle multi channel processing.

How full is full? If we're talking less than 10gig free that can get sloww as a fudge flow at 2K. Upgrading the hard disk is a pretty cheap fairly easy op on that computer, you access it through the battery slot. I'm fairly sure you can put 4GB of RAM in your macbook though it will only address 3.3GB, same as the mac mini.

I guess though, if you say 'processing' is the problem we're talking reverbs, instruments and such? Perhaps you'd have more specific help in a specialist audio forum. http://www.soundonsound.com/forum perhaps. They will have actual tangible experience with your software. You will need to be more specific than you have been though.

 

[drummerlondonw3]

Hi there.

I'm after any advice people can give me. I'm after getting a desktop to use primarily for use with Logic Studio. I have a MacBook, which is great for portable recording, but any editing and processing kills it. I'm a student and thus don't have a fortune to spend, but have been looking at second hand and refurbished G5 PowerMacs, the second hand MacPros are still unfortunately out of my price range. I think my two real options are the G5 PowerMac, or an iMac.

I've had a look around, and www.scrumpymacs.co.uk seems like a decent place for buying a second hand one but any help would be brilliant.

Thanks in advance.

Hello again nicdic

just wanted to let you know I was on ebay and saw scrumpymacs and thought of you! I think you should check out their history, its 99.6% with over 6000 auctions!! Also I would imagine they carry a better stock on ebay and you would also probably better deals.

Hope this helps

d

 

[econoline06]

This is a no-brainer, really. Go for an iMac. They're plenty powerful. The 3 GHz 24" iMac is way more powerful than the fastest G5 PowerMac ever was.

Even the lowest end Mac Mini's (intel core 2 duos) beat the high end G5's in terms of processing power. But for graphics work I would suggest what others are saying and that is to get an iMac. Again, even the low end would kill the G5, even the graphics card. The GPU's are much faster these days . I upgraded from a 1.6GHz G5 with 4GB of RAM and a Radeon 9600 Pro with 256 MB of vRAM to an iMac 20 inch 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, Radeon 2600 HD Pro, and it absolutely lays my G5 to waste.

 

[queshy]

Definitely don't invest in technology that old. Get an iMac or even a first gen Mac Pro used.

 

[nicdic]

Thanks for the help people. Think I'm going to plump for an iMac with some help from my Dad.