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Old 17th November 2006   #20
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Before you spin out on accelerators for Mac you better check Digi compatibility for them and carefully figure out exactly how much money you think you're saving. You may find that Digi hardware goes spaz on a hopped up Mac. As I remember there were some stock Apple dual processor G4 that ran about 1.5Ghz and I think these machines are selling on ebay for around a grand. A real Apple model would be your best bet compared to any third-party replacement processor boards.

Years ago when there were Apple clones I got scorched royally trying to hop up Radius Apple clones to do video editing. The video card company blamed the raid company who blamed Apple who blamed the software company..... $14,000 dollars spent and my video editor would not work for the first six months while I made millions of phone calls trying to figure out why. I finally figured it out, it was the drivers for the video card, who'da thunk. Same crap with hopping up computers for audio. Do you want to spend your time recording or trouble shooting? Best of luck to you.
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