Apple Powerbook Quest-ion
phono13
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I'm having to turn in my Thinkpad, and want one of these. Where's the cheapest place to get one? Is it true that a Powerbook G5 is on it's way? If so, it'd probably be better to wait.
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G5 laptop is not on its way any time soon. The main problem is that the mother board (i believe, though i could be completely wrong) heats up so much that it needs relatively large fans to cool it down. I'm sure they'll think their way out of the quandary, but for the moment your best bet is to get the new version of the powerbooks that came out a little more than a month ago. I just got one and I LOVE it.
powerbook g5:
College students also get a discount. I'm not in school but my girl is. I had her buy my Powermac. Saved about 300 dollars and saved $500 on finalcutpro.
I'm a teacher... how do I go about getting this discount?
http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/routingpage.html
dude I did this shit...got motion,livetype,soundtracks and final cut for $600. Stupid.
anyway try macmall.com. I bought my powerbook and g5 from these dudes. Free ram, free shipping and whatever other deals they have @ the time.
Phil, you should be fine with the last run of G-4's, which are around $13-1500. Unless you're doing some serious sirius multitrack work, for your basic "made in the closet"-style hip-hop ( ) it should be fine. Hell, I still run the FIRST G-4 in the studio.
it glitches sometimes but she's still holdin it down.
new laptop in the next couple months hopefully.
co-sign - my boy runs a G3 ibook with Digital Performer and says he can run up to almost 30 tracks at times. As for monitors, check online spots for closeout deals. And if you're just doing music, you can always go for a cheap, non-Mac monitor.
Word up... well, I'm definitely making hip hop in the closet (no how you doin'), but I still be using up a gang o' tracks on some songs- sometimes up to 16+ bounces on my VS-1880 workstation. So I need to have a set up where I'm not really limited as far as how many tracks I can use. If the G-4 can handle that, then I'm all good.
For what reason or what type of situations / projects would a person really need to have the firepower of a G5?
-rich
I have seen many, many, pro-tools LE setups and the smoothest system as far as 0 glitches I have ever seen was on a dual processor G4 tower. He set the prefs for one entire processor devoted to Pro-Tools and never had any problems.
Also...I say why buy a laptop if you plan on doing all your work inside your house?
I understand the appeal of cool gadgets and portablity (just in case) but desktop machines are better suited for the high demands of digital recording. A 7200 (at least) speed drive is essential as well as a substancial backside cache.
Also glitches with can also occur as a result of too many chops without consolidating auidio etc...