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ok, I know those items need to
be considered, but what's the solution?
does anybody know about
a decent/state of the art shopping list for setting up an audio
PC/MAC,
which hopefully includes just
as much background info to understand why to use the one thing but not the
other
(pref. online, but could be a book
or magazine as well)?
and of course, a decent XP/OS
X set up list for audio would be apprechiated, as well ;-)
that would help me a lot because I
wish to buy some gear
soon
Thanks :-)
Leander ... oh, and I forgot: for laptops
as well! (actually, most important for me ;-)
Thanks again
Leander
it is far more complicated than that....
Which Athlon? (or which Pentium?) Which chipset? (this probably matters even more than the cpu.) which motherboard? what memory is installed? what is the FSB speed? what is the memory speed? cas latency? which hard disk? which ATA interface? ATA100? ATA133? SATA? which graphics chip? standalone? integrated? AGP 1x? 4x? 8x? PCI express? what peripherals are installed? how do the all various peripherals load the busses? do the peripherals add to cpu load or offload it? which bios? which drivers? versions? etc, etc, etc. If you are building a performance PC and you don't understand these things, you might as well turn the lights out and throw darts at the dell catalog. If you are interested in performance, there are a lot more variables than the cpu. And there is far more below the hood that affects you than what you see looking at the windows desktop. Going for the cheapest hardware can mean a huge compromise if you don't know what you really need. No version of windows can save you if the hardware isn't up to it. (Be prepared to spend a whole bunch of time at anandtech, tomshardware, etc to figure it out....) >good thing about the mac is that you quickly find out which one you need :-) even there, do you understand the difference between G4 and G5? DDR memory versus SDR? DDR FSB? Dual CPU? single? etc? There are many less choices, but still plenty of ways to go wrong. >>Next desktop for me will be G5 whenever I get around to it (not soon). Next >>notebook is either TabletPC or a G4, prolly G4. > >yeah, a tabletPC would be perfect for stage! but do they have the >necessary features and price? http://www.pricewatch.com kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com |