WHOOHOO!!!

This part of the conversation makes no sense to me. All my friends at least have a home computer and a laptop, except me! My comp teacher has one for Finale, and a Laptop too! Don't tell me no one has two comps!

Originally Posted by robertn

ok, apple is indeed pretty cool and also pretty much makes the fastest computers nowadays. i'd love to own a mac pro, but not for the price.
apple is like gibson, or every other big brand, their prices are just plain ridiculous, out of proportion that is.
and 16gb of ram? well, be my guest and buy it. too bad nobody developed a way for computers todistribute the workload over that much amount of ram, no computer does this efficiently.

i'll wait for a few yrs before buying such a heavy computer, for now, my current one will do fine.

how much ram are you using now (and how much instruments/articulations)?

In every occasion you mention it's not exactly right.

Macs ARE expensive if you buy everything from apple. But if you simply get a QUAD core 2.66 GHz 2 GB RAM, 1 hard disk computre (no screen) it is less than $3000. RAM and hard disks in apple.com are hugely expensive but you can get extremely cheap ones as well (and not bad quality). A PC with such specs (quad core, lots of RAM, hard disks, etc) is NOT far off that price actually. Believe me cause I'm searching.

RAM: You are aware of 64-bit, right? Sonar IS 64-bit, Leopard IS 64-bit, Vista IS 64-bit. NI are slowly preparing (even if they don't say so) a 64-bit version of Kontakt. 64-bit means huge amounts of RAM.

PLAY of EW is already 64-bit and they HAVE RELEASED an update which allows the engine to get any RAM it needs, regardless of sequencer (unless mistaken on this). So if you think it's not possible, yes it is. Very much so. Plus you can always open stand alone versions and link them with midi yoke or whatever.

And a fast Quad core, can take A LOT (at least 4x more than my current computer can).

On the why:

I have EWQLSC (choirs)
EWQLSO (gold and gold xp pro, but considering Platinum).
Ivory.
DFH superior.

do you think I don't need any more RAM?

Especially a full kit from DFH takes up almost 1 GB. Sure you can dither and take it down and find which ones you don't use, etc, but it's no good if you're still working on the drums and want to actually LISTEN to what you're doing.

As for articulations, I have used in a single project (bounced the hell out of it, of course) 56 midi tracks, plus 4 midi tracks (multis) for the choirs. And 4 instances of SIR reverb (yes, I don't have a reverb yet).



For the record, I will not buy a computer yet. Of course I'll wait for things to settle down and so on, and surely I want to stick to PCs, what I've been using all my life and know. Plus I'm buying monitors at some point, which is the plan, and I can't spend SO much money.

BTW, I have 1 computer currently (I'd like a laptop, but again no reason to really spend the money)

mark: a gibson may be affordable, but the price/quality ratio is out of proportion. you're starting to pay for a brand instead of just paying for a decent guitar. gibsons these days aren't worth what they're asking for them. gibson is the last brand i'm interested in anyway.

nigel: you're absolutely right, and wrong. not only porn sites install crap in your computer without you knowing, welcome to 2007..