Hi Lewis
Great to hear that there exist hardware options for getting regular PCI
cards to work. HOwever, the trouble with solutions like the Magma is that
they are costly and a bit of a hack if you will. It would be far nicer to
get the support natively.
All in all one of my problems is pricing. If I geta machine with no built-in
screen so I can choose the kind of screen that works best with my sight, it
means the Mac pro. IF I add to that the cost of a new sound card, Finnish
speech and parallels or something along those lines, even the cheapest model
is about twice as expensive as a decent PC would be, which is a bit too
much. It could be acceptable if the Mac was clearly superior in the things I
need to get done but it isn't, at least at the moment. I'll have to wait and
see if Logic will become accessible some day, though.
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With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/
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hey there
here's some support from a studio engineer and producer. if you can
afford
this kind of technology, there is a system which allows PCI based
cards to
work on any macbook, mac book pro and mac Pro system, G4 and G5
systems as
well. its the Magma Chassis from digidesign. they are producing the
PCI express card for the new macs now. basically there are several
models of magma
chassis from a single PCI card mount to 13 card mounts in a few
differing chassis designs. the systems run on their own standard
power supply and data is taken
via either a PCMCIA card for laptops or a PCI/PCI express card for
the
towers or desktops. so basically you can run mac compatible PCI
cards without a problem
the primary focus here is driver and software support. Terratec
aren't the
best for mac use so its best considering going M-audio delta 1010LT
cards as
they are mac compatible and are small form factor cards.
sadly most motherboards for new PCs are going PCI express or micro
PCI as a
new standard with the mini ITX boards like found on the IMac.
if you need any more info on the magma chassis go to
_www.digidesign.com_ (http://www.digidesign.com) and browse for the
magma systems.
