DUNNO ABBOUT THE EURO VS DOLLARS, BUT IF YOU PICK THE PRO FROM GET A
MAC AND THEN CLICK BUY NOW ON THE ONE YOU WANT, IT WILL ALLOW FOR
CONFIGURATION.
On Feb 26, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote:
Hi David,
I see, I think Pro is the way to go then. Well, is there a site which
Would let me pick the configuration from a Web form and show the
price for the Mac Pro then? I tried looking in the Apple store but
failed to find such a thing in there. I might be looking in the wrong
place, too, as all prices were in US dollars where as Euros would be
more straightforward for me, of course. Not that I'd get any machine
soon but it would be good to be able to compare the prices of various
custom PC and Mac systems.
Eventually it would be great to get totally external with as many
pieces of hardware connected via USB and firewire as possible. One
consideration I'm thinking is bandhwidth. What if you stick a scanner
and a USB hard drive using a hub, will there be studdering or other
issues? THe other thing with USB sound is, of course, latency when
playing software instruments, provided that Logic will be accessible
some day.
Lastly, and I've been pondering this about PCs, too, would it be
technically possible to have a machine with no IDE or SATA devices or
controllers on it? That is an external DVD drive plus a USB hard disk
to boot from. It would be cool, to say the least, if a little
usefless. And all the external devices take space.
--
With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/
David Poehlman wrote:
I'M RAGING A BIT OF A SIMILAR BATTLE. I'M GOING USB AND FIREWIRE
WHICH MEANS REPLACING MY INTERNAL HARDWARE WITH EXTERNAL HARDWARE.
UNFFORTUNATELY, THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN MEET YOUR RREQUIREMENTS IS WITH
A MAC PRO. THE IMAC IS THE DISPLAY, THE DEISPLAY IS THE IMAC.
PERHAPS APPLE WILL PRODUCE A MIDDLE GROUND DESKTTOP BETWEEEN MINI AND
PRO.
On Feb 26, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote:
Hi David,
Hmm iMacs and built-in displays, I don't like the idea at all, though
thanks for the suggestion. WHat if the display breaks down some day
or I want a different display for some reason, such as the screen
size I mentioned (optimal 15 inch and no larger than 17 given my
current sight). Surely the screen being part of the package can be a
handy option for some people but I think I'm not in that lot, at
least initially.
It's true that the Mac Mini doesn't have the display which I like but
in that machine the specs are a bit of a problem. I've got enough
sight to play some games and thus would like a decent but not a very
high-end video card. A sighted friend of mine, whose a Mac user,
adviced me right away to stay away from the integrated Intel chips.
it eats your RAM and performance in 3D apps is awful, I've heard. Not
that there are that many 3d games I'd be able to play, but I wouldn't
want to get graphics hardware that's, well, on the weak side to begin
with. As OS X now uses 3D hardware to accelerate essentially 2D
windows, and provided that this trend continues, graphics hardware
might matter even more in the future, and unused RAM is always nice.
<snip>
I should have stresssed it more, but expandability is another
important area for me. I'd need at least two PCI slots for continuing
to use my existing PC sound and synthesis hardware. I think the Mac
MIni doesn't have any free PCI slots, right? Howabout the iMac
models? Hmm is the PRo model the only sensible choice, then?
Note that <at this point, the discussion is a bit theoretical if you
will. I'm considering the Mac just as an alternative and won't be
updating my aging PC for at least half a year, I think. I'd need to
wait for the new Mac OS to come out to have Braille, for one thing,
and by the time that happens the current hardware has probably
already changed. I'm just looking into the different kinds of broad
hardware choices Apple offers as a whole to evaluate what switching
to a Mac means in the long run.
<snip>
