Pentium M is a good choice for laptop based audio, I would get that before a pentium 4 myself any day. I am however an AMD fanboy, and I am waiting to see how the turions, or possibly dual core turions do in laptops. In the meantime I have a mac myself, and it does fine, quiet notebook, very stable and overall a good choice...
except in the instance where the person doesnt want to learn a new OS. While GUIs are very similar I can understand thhe sentiment because it can be a lot of work.
In as far as linux is concerned, if you dont want to learn Mac, I wouldnt say Linux is a good choice because if anything it will be more work to learn than a Mac. Linux is a great choice for those not scared or confused by the technical jargon of a computer, maybe want to learn a bit more about it, and want to put in the time and effort to learn all this in advance to give them the greater freedom later. I use it myself, but I also spent several years working with computers, and didnt start in linux with audio myself, I worked my way up to it as I got more and more into live theater sound again.
In as far as software stability... Name a platform and piece of software, I can tell you there are bugs that exist that might be capable of crashing it. Doesnt matter if it is PPC or x86, Mac, Linux, or Windows. The difference in as far as stability is concerned where it can really matter in your OS choice, is will that crash bring down the entire system. I have yet to have that happen in two of those three OS's(If you need to ask which one has brought down the entire system, you havent worked with MS enough apparently). All three though I have had audio software crash on me, and I garuntee that will probably never change.
In as far as water based cooling etc...
When dealing with live recordings the amount of noise made by the computer makes a large difference, that is why a quieter computer is better in that regards. Water based cooling is not a bad idea for a system you might be considering using for recording in later life, at the very least it wont hurt your system if set up correctly and you will have the benefit of not hearing the fans for hours on end. You will hear other things though, they just wont be QUITE so loud
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except in the instance where the person doesnt want to learn a new OS. While GUIs are very similar I can understand thhe sentiment because it can be a lot of work.
In as far as linux is concerned, if you dont want to learn Mac, I wouldnt say Linux is a good choice because if anything it will be more work to learn than a Mac. Linux is a great choice for those not scared or confused by the technical jargon of a computer, maybe want to learn a bit more about it, and want to put in the time and effort to learn all this in advance to give them the greater freedom later. I use it myself, but I also spent several years working with computers, and didnt start in linux with audio myself, I worked my way up to it as I got more and more into live theater sound again.
In as far as software stability... Name a platform and piece of software, I can tell you there are bugs that exist that might be capable of crashing it. Doesnt matter if it is PPC or x86, Mac, Linux, or Windows. The difference in as far as stability is concerned where it can really matter in your OS choice, is will that crash bring down the entire system. I have yet to have that happen in two of those three OS's(If you need to ask which one has brought down the entire system, you havent worked with MS enough apparently). All three though I have had audio software crash on me, and I garuntee that will probably never change.
In as far as water based cooling etc...
When dealing with live recordings the amount of noise made by the computer makes a large difference, that is why a quieter computer is better in that regards. Water based cooling is not a bad idea for a system you might be considering using for recording in later life, at the very least it wont hurt your system if set up correctly and you will have the benefit of not hearing the fans for hours on end. You will hear other things though, they just wont be QUITE so loud
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, so I should be able to handle it.
And those things were supposed to have been shipped to vendors at least 3-4 weeks ago, so I figured why buy a new drive, just to swap it out in a few weeks when the new drives come out? So I decided to wait.
