you should be happy your creative energy can finally be used to make music instead of think about how to get past your computers limitations.Ingemar wrote:i'm going to get a new computer the coming weeks, and I'm actually a bit worried about not being limited by cpu and memory as much in my coming productions. Creativity under restraint and all that.
CPU rant.
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i made my favourite computer music on a powerpc mac. it was pretty slow.
i made my least favourite computer music on a dualcore intel fast computer.
i got fed up of computer technology. it looses 3/4 of it's value after 1 year, and Apple computers are not designed to be serviced. A child can service a computer so why is it not possible to chnage an HD on an Apple?
Anyway I got a tape deck instead.
i made my least favourite computer music on a dualcore intel fast computer.
i got fed up of computer technology. it looses 3/4 of it's value after 1 year, and Apple computers are not designed to be serviced. A child can service a computer so why is it not possible to chnage an HD on an Apple?
Anyway I got a tape deck instead.
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exactlytone-def wrote:you should be happy your creative energy can finally be used to make music instead of think about how to get past your computers limitations.Ingemar wrote:i'm going to get a new computer the coming weeks, and I'm actually a bit worried about not being limited by cpu and memory as much in my coming productions. Creativity under restraint and all that.
i always sticked to a desktop pc cause of the easy updating options.
new mobo, cpu & ram always way cheaper than getting a complete new laptop.
and today it´s so easy to overclock your pc. when i was fed up with the amd i had before, i overclocked it in 5 minutes and had 25% more cpu power.
with my intel i920 its a bit more timeconsuming but still pretty easy. got me 50% more cpupower from an already ridiculous fast machine.
new mobo, cpu & ram always way cheaper than getting a complete new laptop.
and today it´s so easy to overclock your pc. when i was fed up with the amd i had before, i overclocked it in 5 minutes and had 25% more cpu power.
with my intel i920 its a bit more timeconsuming but still pretty easy. got me 50% more cpupower from an already ridiculous fast machine.
techno made me do it
you can upgrade apple HD. it's a bit tricky with the imac and older laptops but it can be done.oblioblioblio wrote:i made my favourite computer music on a powerpc mac. it was pretty slow.
i made my least favourite computer music on a dualcore intel fast computer.
i got fed up of computer technology. it looses 3/4 of it's value after 1 year, and Apple computers are not designed to be serviced. A child can service a computer so why is it not possible to chnage an HD on an Apple?
Anyway I got a tape deck instead.
oblioblioblio wrote: i got fed up of computer technology. it looses 3/4 of it's value after 1 year, and Apple computers are not designed to be serviced. A child can service a computer so why is it not possible to chnage an HD on an Apple?
I bought a rather expensive, non-standard macbook pro about 3,5 years ago.
Got the fastest processor available back then, opted for a faster HD since Ableton does most direct from disc, and waited for a month or two for the RAM to get cheaper to max out the RAM.
Eventually, I was thinking about upgrading, untill I realized that everything was stilll more than fine, and the only urgent thing was HD space.
A few years ago, the biggest HD I could get for a macbook pro that ran at 7200rpm was 200Gb.
But since I did get the fastest processor back then, and the 7200 drive, I still got a good macbook even to today's standards. It's still not at all outdated.
So all I did was call the Mac store, brought my laptop in at 10AM, and by twelve they had swapped my old HD for a 500Gb one, (7200rpm again of course).
It costed me less than 200 euro's, and most of the money was for hours.
They even installed Snow for free (when I bought mine it was still Leopard), and gave me my old HD back since there was nothing wrong with it.
which was nice
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faster = better, for myself. i have a 4x 2.66 cpu with 4 gig ram. producing involves me taking bits of audio and applying dozens of effects and processes to them. the faster those can render the happier i am. i do not produce live very often, but when i do it is lag/cpu glitch free. i remember the late 90's, and 2000 - 2006, and the computers i owned in those years were slow to the point that my production suffered, or were intentionally lofi, as it was unfeasible to do much without crashing or freezing.