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secondGemini@gmail.com - 15 Mar 2006 13:08 GMT

i'm looking at the g4 ibook. i plan on keeping my pc for emails, web
and all that nonsense. but want to go mac for running music editing
software. namely samplitude and reason. i'm thinking about getting
the 60gig drive upgrade... and a gig of ram. now... i can't quite
figure out tho.. if the ibook comes with a cd burner. i don't care too
much about dvds. but i need to burn cd's.

overall... i'm trying to find out if this computer... with these
upgrades will do the trick to handle a decent amount of hard disk
recording... and big music editing programs.

thanks,
sg

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Hugh Chaloner - 15 Mar 2006 13:17 GMT

> if the ibook comes with a cd burner

I'm pretty sure it does - if it includes the words "Combo Drive" in the
description, then it's capable of burning CDs. If it includes the word
"SuperDrive" in the description, then it'll burn DCs and DVDs.

Be aware that this iBook G4 is probably going to be and end-of-line
model, in that it is likely (according to rumours) that an intel version
of iBook will be launched in April. Rumours mind you.

If this is the case, your software may only run under emulation mode -
have a look at the website for your software and see if they have plans
to update to a Universal Binary anytime soon.

hth

Hugh

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Stan Horwitz - 18 Mar 2006 23:31 GMT

> i'm looking at the g4 ibook. i plan on keeping my pc for emails, web
> and all that nonsense. but want to go mac for running music editing
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> upgrades will do the trick to handle a decent amount of hard disk
> recording... and big music editing programs.

You'll probably find such a configuration to be very inadquate for your
plans. A good friend of mine does music composition with the same
software on a flat screen iMac G4 with an 800Mhtz processor and 750MB of
RAM and it does not come anywhere near to being able to handle the work
she really wants to do. As a result, she's been saving up for a DP G5
desktop system, which I expect will server her much better.

Music composition takes a lot of horsepower. You might be better off
buying a new Intel based Mac mini for $1,000 and adding 2GB RAM and an
external hard drive to store your music files. I don't know if Reason is
compatible yet with the Core Duo Macs, but I am sure if you check on the
web, that info should be easy to find.

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