upgrading to Live 6 give me better performance on my PB G4?

sroom3000 · Post by **sroom3000** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:30 pm

Can anyone tell me if upgrading to Live 6 will help the performance of Live on my 12" Mac Powerbook G4? It's a 1.5ghz G4 processor with 1.25gb of ram. Lately I've been running Battery 3 and it's been choking a bit here and there. I was thinking of upgrading to a MacBook but had a good look at them today at Circuit City and determined that the build quality of those things is a bit chintzy. That's very dissapointing to me as I love OSX but my PB feels so much more solid. Unfortunately my RAM is maxed out or I would go that route. So, will the new deep freeze functions, etc. help my PB's performance. thanks!!
cheers
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MacBookDJ · Post by **MacBookDJ** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:54 pm

You can download the demo of Live 6 and try it out for yourself. I personally don't notice much of a difference between the two on my old Mac mini G4 1.42GHz. I don't use battery, however.

corygilbert · Post by **corygilbert** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:58 pm

i definately felt that 6 worked more fludidly and felt faster than 5 to me on my 1.67 15in 2g ram PB. It could be just an impression though, but that's how it felt.

DJ VAKIS · Post by **DJ VAKIS** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:59 pm

Yes, the freeze function will help a lot.
If you can buy a macbook or pro then you will see beter performance.
G4 machines are good but not that fast to run Live.And ableton never optimized Live for Altivec that G4 uses.

sroom3000 · Post by **sroom3000** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:12 pm

thanks guys. looks like i'll have to break down and get a macbook pro.
I just wish they came in 12" models!! doh! set-up space is precious at all my gigs.

corygilbert · Post by **corygilbert** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:11 pm

hold off on that, check out macrumor.com, they are coming out with 12 in mbpros soon.

mechcon · Post by **mechcon** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:50 pm

works nicely on mine

DJ VAKIS · Post by **DJ VAKIS** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 4:28 am

corygilbert wrote:hold off on that, check out macrumor.com, they are coming out with 12 in mbpros soon.

Do you have a link for this?
Cheers

BinaryB · Post by **BinaryB** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:32 am

sroom3000 wrote:thanks guys. looks like i'll have to break down and get a macbook pro.
I just wish they came in 12" models!! doh! set-up space is precious at all my gigs.

The mac rumors sites are predicting the info/launch of a NEW 12' MacbookPro in SanFran Macworld 2007, with FlashRAM.

So i will wait for that info.

I have a PowerBook 15' 1.25ghz 500RAM

LIVE-6 is the BEST for exactly what you are after.

I got it and now i can calmy approach the aquisition of my new laptop
instead of itching and tweaking like a crackhead whenever
i see someones sig with nice specs about their MacbookPro.

Also saved me from getting a core duo instead of core 2 duo !