What computer do you use?

Hi I'm new here and see whats everybody up to.This is such a cool site.I'm was wondering what computer and what model you guys have?Why I'm asking is i'm going to buy a new computer and I wanna record.What do you think of the Mac eMac computer?

[skydog911]

Howdy and welcome to the site......i cant be much help on the computing side....i've got a piece of shit HP...I need a new puter myself [img]images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif[/img]

[El_jalepeno]

Build my own. [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img] Much cheaper and much more of what I want instead of what a store wants you to have.

[thefallenangel]

I built my own also I work with computers thats what i do for a living lol

Personally i hate macs...lol

[phil28uk]

why do you hate macs?

[stingx]

I built a dual athlon system (2600+x2) running two 180 GB hdds in raid with 3gb pc2700 ram. I shopped for all the parts at a market pro computer show (I go regularly). I put the bulk of the system together for under $800 USD [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I added an m-audio firewire 410 interface afterwards for 400 bucks and a 8x dvd+/-r/rw to backup all my data to for 120 bucks. I have been building my own boxes since my first PC and the one I just described has been working beautifully for me for recording. I still run Win2k on it and have felt no need to upgrade to XP yet. I, too, work with computers so I just use a pool license from work on whatever OS I want to install on what I build. Sometimes I even "borrow" from the office [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Cheers...

[Mondy]

I have an Athlon 2400+ on an ASUS NX7X (or something like that) motherboard.

512 MB DDR RAM.

2 Mirrored 160 Gb HDDs.

Windows XP Professional on there.

Built it myself too. Old Motherboard died on me, so I upgraded. I begrudge paying lots on computers, so only pay the bucks when I have to.

Serves it purpose for recording, but I hear good things about Macs for recording. They're supposed to be built for it and make it extremely easy. CanyonCarver's your guy for Macs though...

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I built my own (after knocking my knee on the tower for 3 years ) I ordered a 19" rackmount server case and installed a Gigabyte MB in it with a Athlon XP Processor and a stick of 512 megs of DDR,Soundblaster Live ,NVidia Video card and this sucker is Fast!!!!!!!!! I use Cakewalk Sonar 2XL and Windows Me and have never had a single glitch...

[Goport]

Built my own.
2500XP
1GB 2700 RAM
Creative Audigy (Piece of shit) Sound Card
120 + 80 GB HDD's
DVD+/- RW
NVidia 5700Ultra

It is ok but it is beginning to show it's age lately.

[sweeps]

I use an iBook G4 1gig laptop and a G4 Powermac 800mhz. I love using Pro tools on a mac. its has never crashed on me and it is much easier to browse for files. I work in the IT feild and deal with XP Pro all the time. I like XP for Business apps but for Video and Music you cant beat a Mac. The processor speed is faster then a pc's and there are less problems between apps working together. On my PC I tried Pro Tools and it was just a pain. It was a 1.2 gig processor and I noticed alot of latency issues as well as memory problems. Go with a MAC and you will be much happier in the long run.