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What computer do you have?
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RE: What computer do you have?
(September 25, 2016 at 8:19 am)paulpablo Wrote: What computer do you own?

I also want to extend this thread to also be what computer do you recomend I buy because I'm thinking about buying a new one.

The main things I use my computer for is for communicating via webcam, music production, watching films on stuff like that.

I want a PC not a Mac, because I have things on my old PC I want to use on the new one I buy.
I'm thinking I might be willing to spend up to 800 pounds/1037 dollars.

I've seen good reviews of these lenovo computers.

You don't need anything special, unless you are trying to run a sequencer with many dozens of sound effects (reverb, delay, distortion, etc.) in a live scenario.  I'd recommend building your own computer.  Get a really good micro-ATX motherboard, and spend your money on a fast CPU (doesn't need more than 4 cores) and at least 8 Gb of good, fast ram.  The mATX built-in graphics card will be fine for the things you want to do, and not buying a GFX card will save you a couple hundred bucks.  Maybe spend the money you save on about a 128Gb SSD for nice fast boot times.


I can say from experience that the difference between 4Gb and 8Gb is VERY noticeable, and that I've never yet come into a situation where 16Gb was better than 8Gb, except maybe in very memory-hoggish PC games. With 4Gb, you'll get a pause for paging when you switch between applications if you are running several things at once.
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#22
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I'm probably no help but I'll comment anyway 'cause ya nevah know...'

Like you, I do pro audio stuff. I'm fortunate enough to be able to have a dedicated music room in the house. And in that room I have a recently built i7 based rack mount PC. I'd have to look up what motherboard I used as well as all the other specifics. The bottom line is that machine is purpose built for doing pro-audio production with a Windows based software that I've used for well over 20 years now. Its the software I have and the software I know, so I built the machine to suite it.

That said, I'm typing this on a macbook pro. When I was doing computer repair work, I bought my first mac so I could learn the system. Many years later I realized we had bought a new $500-ish PC based laptop for my wife every 12 to 18 months because the old one was spent and not worth fixing, even with a pro tech (i.e. me) living in the house. Meanwhile my macbook was 8 years old and still going strong. So even though it cost more than twice as much, we went out and bought my wife a macbook air. She's still using it more than 5 years later and its still just as fast now as it was then.

My original macbook pro got to the point where it could no longer be updated so we replaced it with a new macbook pro. It cost a fortune compared to most PC's but I didn't bat an eyelash because I know I'll still be using this long after most PC's made today are on the scrap heap.

So the long and short of it is if you can manage to use a mac for pro-audio (and macs to great at that BTW) then I'd say suck it up and buy a mac. I've been a long time user of Sonar for my audio exploits and they are just now getting ready to issue their very first beta version on a Mac. If I wasn't a Sonar guy, I'd have switched my studio over to Mac long ago.
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#23
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We have three MacBook Pros.
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#24
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Oh my god - and a gold statue of Steve Jobs as well I suppose?
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#25
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I've got an 11 inch MacBook Air and a Levnovo PC desktop. I also have an iPad mini and iPhone 6 SE
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#26
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Oh and my mom has an HP
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#27
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I have a Dell laptop.
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(September 25, 2016 at 11:41 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I've got an 11 inch MacBook Air and a Levnovo PC desktop. I also have an iPad mini and iPhone 6 SE


I'd like to say I had an 11 inches but I think it may actually be bigger.  MacBook Pro here.
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RE: What computer do you have?
(September 25, 2016 at 11:36 pm)Aractus Wrote: Oh my god - and a gold statue of Steve Jobs as well I suppose?

I think you only get that after MacBook number 5.

We also have two iPhone 6s and an old iPhone 4.

My wife has an old Dell laptop that she doesn't use anymore after I convinced her to use a MacBook Pro. I have an Acer Netbook that I rarely use anymore.

If it makes it any better, I only paid for one of the MacBooks.
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#30
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Apple has the best accessible technology
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