New MAC buying advice

atomic · Post by **atomic** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:16 pm

pearsonart.com wrote:It's going to be pretty exciting to see where the X86 community goes next.

Yes it is! I think it is interesting that people are running OSX on the "beige box" already. Long before "real" initell macs are on the market. I am curious to see what happens in the next couple of years. As I said i am going to sit tight and watch for as long as I can. The market is just crazy right now.

dave999z · Post by **dave999z** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:14 am

pearsonart.com wrote:logic and unity

James,

Holy crap a fellow Unity user! I swear I dropped $350 (educational) on Unity Session about 2 days before the company went bankrupt. I thought they were great guys, until they took my money knowing the product would be worthless without any support (can't even install/authorize it). Live and learn I guess. I still think it was an awesome program. Do you know if Kontakt can import Unity patches now? (I heard that was going to happen, but couldn't imagine how it would work.) Some of my best sound designs were on Unity.

Anyway... time to log off the forum and fire up the Live on the new (to me) powerbook.

Peace everyone,
Dave

koranek · Post by **koranek** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:31 am

I just took the plunge todsay and bought a new g5 2Ghz. Bought it partially because it's advertised to have pci slots instead of pci-x. Since I have an older Delta 66 card, I figured I'd be safe.

Well they may be pci slots, but my card doesn't fit the slots. M-Audio will upgrade the card to a pci-x form factor for $50 which I can live with. What turns out to be a real bite is that no M-Audio cards are compatible with the 2Ghz machines! They are fine with the 2.3 and 2.7 Ghz machines, and older G5's with eight memory slots (but not four). It has something to do with the pci bus controller on the different logic boards.

So now I'm faced with either going with a 2.3 Ghz (for about $500 more) or get a completely different audio interface.

I've packed up the new machine

and will take it back tomorrow to trade up. this is a case where buying it from the Apple retail store and paying sales tax is working out much better than buying it mail order and paying shipping. I think it's going to eventually work out, but it's a rocky start for now.

These new G5's sure are pretty. And very quiet.

Wish me luck.

atomic · Post by **atomic** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:32 am

have fun!

atomic · Post by **atomic** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:39 am

koranek wrote: It has something to do with the pci bus controller on the different logic boards.

So now I'm faced with either going with a 2.3 Ghz (for about $500 more) or get a completely different audio interface.

went through all that crap with my RME soundcard, powercore, and uad card's. PCI x and version blabablablblabla yadda yadda yadda ("macs just work" my ass). So it was to late to return my $2600 computer so now i use it to brows the web and run protools for work. It is a very nice computer but the "it just works" factor of mac was blow WAY out the window right away.