Members dereksljuka Posted June 1, 2007 Members Share Posted June 1, 2007 OK, here's the situation. I want to sell my PC and get a secondhand Mac to run Logic Pro on. I will not be paying out the ass to get one of the new Intel systems, I'd rather go with something a little older like a used Power Mac. Would, say, a G4 or G5 Power Mac have any difficulty with Logic Pro? I don't care if it can run I-life or games or anything else, I just want to be able to have a solid DAW. I'd rather have an older Power Mac than a newer iMac just because I think I'm too good for the iMac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted June 1, 2007 Members Share Posted June 1, 2007 No problems so far here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cl516 Posted June 1, 2007 Members Share Posted June 1, 2007 doesn't that depend on what you'd like to do with it...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dereksljuka Posted June 1, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 1, 2007 Apple says Logic Pro will run on a G4 with 512MB of RAM, does that sound like it would be sufficient? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mytee2.0 Posted June 1, 2007 Members Share Posted June 1, 2007 make sure you have your compute knob is turned to "pasty white guy" since pighood has no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted June 1, 2007 Members Share Posted June 1, 2007 I'm pink and I'm proud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drxcm Posted June 1, 2007 Members Share Posted June 1, 2007 Plenty of grunt on my dual 2.0 g5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members idiotboy Posted June 1, 2007 Members Share Posted June 1, 2007 same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members joxer96 Posted June 1, 2007 Members Share Posted June 1, 2007 I don't think 512 MB of ram is enough. I'd go for at least 1 gig, I don't care what Apple says. My iMac G5 ran Logic a little sluggish when I first bought it, once I installed the additional gig of ram I had ordered, things improved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members brzilian Posted June 1, 2007 Members Share Posted June 1, 2007 OK, here's the situation.I want to sell my PC and get a secondhand Mac to run Logic Pro on. I will not be paying out the ass to get one of the new Intel systems, I'd rather go with something a little older like a used Power Mac. Would, say, a G4 or G5 Power Mac have any difficulty with Logic Pro? I don't care if it can run I-life or games or anything else, I just want to be able to have a solid DAW. I'd rather have an older Power Mac than a newer iMac just because I think I'm too good for the iMac. Do not waste money on a G4 or G5. Even a maxed out 1.83 Mac Mini would be faster than any PowerMac at this point... Logic Express runs fine on my 1.66 CoreDuo Mac Mini with 1Gb of RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Audacity Works Posted June 1, 2007 Members Share Posted June 1, 2007 Do not waste money on a G4 or G5. Even a maxed out 1.83 Mac Mini would be faster than any PowerMac at this point...I don't know about that, but my Macbook Pro certainly seems to be more powerful than my Dual 2.0 G5. More host-based plugins in Logic, faster render times in Photoshop and Illustrator, quicker response in smaller apps like Pages and iTunes... And rumors point to new Macbook Pros as soon as next week. Unless you need the ability to add more internal drives (external firewire drives work great) or utilize PCIe cards, why not the new iMac? It's a beast. And joxer96 is right. The new Logic Pro is pretty worthless with 512MB of RAM. If you plan on opening more than a handful of plugs, I'd get 2GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dereksljuka Posted June 2, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 2, 2007 Welcome to the wrong thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted June 2, 2007 Members Share Posted June 2, 2007 Joey got killed tomorrow morning. Pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mytee2.0 Posted June 2, 2007 Members Share Posted June 2, 2007 awesome, I was afraid I would have to put him in my ignore list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted June 2, 2007 Members Share Posted June 2, 2007 I think it's safe now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cl516 Posted June 2, 2007 Members Share Posted June 2, 2007 dereksljuka, i asked you the usage question earlier because it really depends on what you wanna do. if you wanna just record and playback, that will obviously be less thanif you wanna run 10 softsynths all at 96k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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