| $100! Thats a fine deal! You will OBVIOUSLY need more ram, but even putting another $100 in Ram in it would still make it a good deal. I did plenty of rock solid tracking on my 733Mhz G4 for years, with no problems.
Track counts really have more to do with hard drive speed than processor speed. A 7200rpm drive in that G4 should get you 20-30 tracks VERY comfortably. And as long as you can live without effects while tracking, you can always crank up the recording/playback buffers to max, and you should be able to do fairly thick mixes. Obviously a DAW with a freeze track/bounce function will serve you well on this machine for very complicated mixes.
I would hate for your FIRST Mac experience to be on this machine, cause it ain't gonna show off the 'apple workflow' like the G5's and Intel's will, but in terms of functionality, a couple hundred bucks is still a good deal for this machine. If you are running a WORKING studio, or working on music that is very heavy mix work, you may just want to save up for a used G5, but if it's just to do some remote tracking, it will probably be fantastic. The G4's make great remote recorders, cause they were SOOO ****in' stable. I swear I don't think my G4 EVER froze up or crashed - it was kind of spooky.
halcyo |