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offline dingle berry from on a small plastic chair breat (Haiti) on 2002-05-21 20:43 [#00228753]
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hopefully this summer i will be buying
the mac titanium power book g4
heres its spec
667MHz PowerPC G4
1MB L3 & 256K L2 cache
133MHz system bus
256MB SDRAM memory
30GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
w/32MB DDR video memory
Gigabit Ethernet
56K internal modem
1 FireWire & 2 USB Ports
now my problem being that i dont realy know anything about
computers other than how to turn them on and off what i want
to know is what Memory and Hard Drive should i get in order
to run my future protools setup?



 

offline dingle berry from on a small plastic chair breat (Haiti) on 2002-05-21 21:15 [#00228817]
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please?

 

offline dingle berry from on a small plastic chair breat (Haiti) on 2002-05-21 21:15 [#00228818]
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heres some gameswhile you have a think about it!

http://www.candystand.com/

 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-21 21:17 [#00228821]
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Memory is what the program loads into when you open it, 256
is good, 128 is standard, 512 for heavy duty work. More than
512MB is reserved for mainly servers, I havent met an
average user whos workstation needed more than 512MB of
memory.

As for harddrives, if you get to choose a brand, get Maxtor.
Maxtor!Maxtor!Maxtor! Anything else will burn out after
about 4-5 of regular use. I know from experience (damn you
Western Digital!).Since you will be doing music stuff, and
will probably be using it for other things, get 50GB or
more. Make sure its at least ATA 100, although you will be
probably getting SCSI which is fast as hell anyway so dont
worry about that.

-Ctrl Alt Del (Ultrageek)

 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-21 21:18 [#00228822]
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Would have posted sooner but the phone rang.

 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-21 21:20 [#00228825]
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Oh, its ATA, probably should have read it a little closer
but the excitment of posting on a computer topic was to
tempting! If you are going to run your laptop to an external
sound system (being that laptop sound sucks) get an Exdigty.
Its basically an Audigy but its external. AMAZING sound
card. Very good card.


 

offline dingle berry from on a small plastic chair breat (Haiti) on 2002-05-22 08:08 [#00229203]
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cheers mr ctrl alt del you are indeed a star!
do you have a mac then?

 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-22 20:58 [#00230327]
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Yea, 4.

Power Mac 8600/300
Power Mac 7500/75 LC
Power Book 180
Power Book 165c

They are old an kinda slow, but Im about to upgrade my
8600/300 to OS X and Macs are SO expensive. I also have
Windows and Linux PCs. Im looking into buying a SPARC.


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-22 21:00 [#00230329]
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Oh, wait I screw up, its a 5200/75 LC. Stupid numbers are
too hard to remember.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-22 21:03 [#00230338]
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I think you should choose the purple one, if there's a
choice of that color, I mean since I assume you're gay.


 

offline jingle from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-22 21:03 [#00230339]
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get a vic 20 with a 12kb expansion card: but wait till next
month when they release the titanium one with matching tape
loader :)


 

offline Loogie from Oxford (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-22 21:03 [#00230340]
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Don't know anything about macs but I always use IBM HDs.
They invented the things.

www.anandtech.com is a respected hardware review site. They
seem to like IBMs but read the reviews anyway.


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-22 21:12 [#00230356]
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My choice is Maxtor.

But I can say that IBM has GOOD GOOD quality drives. I
bought a couple of 1GB SCSI drives for my Linux server from
a guy, they were COVERED in mud. I took an air compressor to
them, got most of the mud off, installed them and they
started right up. I am amazed to this day that they worked.

www.tomshardware.com , tought me everything I know about
overclocking.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-05-22 21:14 [#00230361]
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Get the most expensive seagate one you can afford. It's
worth it to never get HD crashes :)



 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-22 21:28 [#00230385]
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Seagate is a good SCSI brand. And I learned a very painful
lesson when my Western Digital crashed. Managed to recover
it all though, but I went out and bought an 80GB Maxtor the
same day. I will probably be putting a better SCSI
controller and a new CPU into my Linux server.


 

offline dingle berry from on a small plastic chair breat (Haiti) on 2002-05-25 12:30 [#00234394]
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cheers peoples for all your input!

and w M w from poshnu (Tuvalu) why are you so incredibley
hungup about your sexuality?
were you beaten/analy raped with a dog toy as a child
perhaps?


 

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