On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Eric Dannewitz <ericd...@jazz-sax.com> wrote: > Oh, but you spent lots of money on a niche product. You could have > bought 2 or more $300 laptops that could do all what you want. > > The iMac is really nice. The displays are nice. And it is nearly > silent. A 27" iMac and a 30" external monitor would be amazing. Have > you done that? How would you arrange the score with two huge displays? > > I my macpro is pretty quite, and I have yet to max out the processors > on it. I've mixed two jazz band albums using ProTools with it, and I > don't think I even got anywhere close to 1/2 of the processing power > even with all the plugins I was using. And this is a 2008 model. > Though think of all the $300 laptops I could have bought! > > For finale stuff, I have no clue how much power it uses. A big band > score with the garritan sounds works fine. The only time thing I ever > had the computer choke on was lots of VIs in digital performer. > Basically ran out of memory. Increasing the Mac to 8 gigs solved that. > > But I'm using a niche product.....should have gotten a $300 laptop. It > could do all that and then some. I could be on my second or third on > by now. >
Aw more butthurt: LOL @ 950.00 27 inch monitor compared to HP's 27 version for only 320 @ the aforementioned Amazon, clearly someone is dedicated to their product, no matter the price!!!!! _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
