On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 09:41 PM, Gerald E. Uhlan wrote: > Why do you say that? I use my Blueberry 333 with only 192 RAM and a > 20 gig > HD for audio restoration projects on a daily basis. It's not as > unbearably > slow as you make it sound. True, it can be sluggish when opening a > particular program (Spark XL) or an extremely large file, but for most > things, it's just fine speed-wise. It's even faster when I need to mix > audio files under OS 9 (I still use SoundEdit16 - so far there's > nothing > comparable in OS X). RAM and HD speeds on these older machines is > just fine > for most home audio projects - most of us are not "pros" with "pro" > budgets, > and even older iMacs have sufficient capability for home audio. I > *was* > doing all this on my PowerMac 7600 just a year ago - now *that* was > slow...
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