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Ordered mine the day it was released, got it a week ago, with confirmation, serial and receipt in email right after the order was placed. I'm in Colorado, USA

Hi, I am at work now and won't be home to the G5 until 5:30 US mountain standard time, not sure where you are. So I'll do that test for you when I get home and report back. I'm not really using live for that intense of a studio setup and I'm no veteran, but I will try to get the machine going pretty...

I am using a dual 1.8 G5 w/ 1.5Gig RAM and it absolutely screams in Live 3/4. I've never seen the CPU meter go above 35% with Reason rewired and multiple tracks and plugins - it usually hovers around 3-7% for basic editing. Let me know if you've got any other questions.

-mike

forge wrote:Every single thing it does I can do somewhere else better.

agreed

but the osx-interface rocks! and if you use your computer for internet as well, buy a mac or use linux, because then you don't have to worry about viruses, dialers and other stuff that makes you reinstall windows at least once a month, or getting updates every 48 hours and installing new anti-virus...

forgot to login, 'guest' previous to this reply was me

go rain on someone else's parade, you're not wanted here

what the hell are all of you talking about? is this russia? this isn't russia. where the hell am I?

G5!! all the way. Just kidding, get whatever you want. i think in the end it is really about what operating system you prefer working in. I have never been happier using a computer than when I went from xp to osx panther - osx=no viruses, built-in firewall, no pesky adware, peace of mind (for me at ...

i'm using a dual 1.8 G5 with 1.5G ram and haven't ever had any performace issues with Live. I use final cut pro 4 intensely with performace peaking at around %50. I also rewire Live3 and Reason2.5 simultaneously into Pro Tools with multiple waves plugins and performace still only tops out around %60...

you probably need to just contact ableton for whatever reason. also, look at a previous post called "how many copies?" best