Hi First off I want to say it's against Apple's terms to run Mac OS on anything but their hardware. That said some people are making it work. It takes quite a bit of time and effert to make it work. You need very specific hardware. A friend of mine trying doing hackintosh on two or three machines and found that it was not going to be satisfactory. Mac hardware is a bit more expensive but your not just paying for the hardware. Your paying for the OS, the screen reader, some core apps, good support, and the hardware. My dvd drive in my mac book pro 15" 2010 died two months in. I took it to my local Apple store and in 20 minutes I got it replaced.
For $1000 you can geta mini server which has two 7200 rpm 500 gb drives and comes with 4 gb of ram and a quad core i7 and it fits in a half a rack space. But if it were me I'd buy the config with the 256 ssd and the 750 gb 7200 rpm for $1700. The nice thing about the mac mini mac book pro mac book air and the imac is that they all have thunderbolt ports now. There are pcie expansion chassis's that one can buy if they want to run pro tools hd from any of these machines. After using hd in a studio here in town I really see the benefits. It's all about monitoring. HTH --FC On Aug 22, 2011, at 6:22 AM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: > Hi all: > > I really don't know how to start, but I'm thinking of playing with pro > tools to see how and what things we can achieve, > Specially that many many studios here in Egypt r using pro tools. So, in ur > opinions, will I be able to achieve the things that I was achieving with > sonar? > And, am thinking of installing the system over a IBM machine, will it be > good? > And how will it be compared to a new mac machine? > I think it will be too expensive for me to buy a new mac machine, and I need > to try the things 1st.ly before buying. > So, I need to make a duel boot machine, > Will it help me? Just a new mac and a windows 7 for completing my work. > But, on an intel mother board. > > I need your opinions please > Any help will be highly abbreciated > > > Cheers: > Ramy Moustafa > If music be the food of love... play on. > Mobile: > 0020102221750 > Personal email: > [email protected] > Msn and aim messengers: > [email protected] > Studio email: > [email protected] > facebook profile: > http://www.facebook.com/ > Twitter: > [email protected] > youtube chanael: > www.youtube.com/ramymoustafasaber > > > > Cheers: > Ramy Moustafa > If music be the food of love... play on. > Mobile: > 0020102221750 > Personal email: > [email protected] > Msn and aim messengers: > [email protected] > Studio email: > [email protected] > facebook profile: > http://www.facebook.com/ > Twitter: > [email protected] > youtube chanael: > www.youtube.com/ramymoustafasaber > > <winmail.dat>
