jcschild

Kev999

jcschild

its what i do for a living since 1898...

You must be nearly as old as me.

51 and yeah getting old and feeling it...

I think you missed the point, you said that it's been what you do for a living since 1898

oh crap... LOL ok i aint that old...  1998.... totally missed that

jcschild


oh crap... LOL ok i aint that old...  1998.... totally missed that

Face the facts, reading glasses are in your near future.

I got an ibuypower 410 for 1263.  A mac with same specs would have been over $4000!!!  Wait for a good one at BB, and you'll make out.
 
Sonar 853 runs fast and smooth.

its true that consumer computers being used more and more for things like sonar,back in the day one would build their own of have one built to do high technology digital recording like we do now a day.
but places like best buy,tiger direct,new egg have made it easy to afford a really good computer.
but and i say but !!..there are  tweaks to be made first,one being install a fresh operating system with out the bloatware,remove the extra large 1 tb hard drive for a smaller 360 or 500 gig for your os and sonar install,use the 1 tb hd for samples,audio data,projects.
and now for under a thousand dollars one can get a decent 17 with 12 gigs of ram.

One rule I've learned over the years is "the bigger the drive, the more data to loose when it fails" (Which it will) For that reason, I've always purposely bought lower size drives as Roy suggests in this post as boot drives. Since my last build I have a minimum standard of SATA6 speeds for any drive. Knocking wood...the 60G SSD I selected as the boot/OS drive has been great. But out of the 6 machines we run at home, 5 have platter drives. I'm concerned I won't be able to find the smaller drives in a few years.