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Musician's Computer

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Amitojc

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My friend is a musician and he is looking to get a new computer. Much of the software he uses is only on mac, so he is considering a mac book pro. Any suggestions out there. I was telling him to go with a quad 2.6, with 6-8 gigs of ram. Is that the advice I should be giving? Like to hear back from some other musicians. Thanks!
 
That's a bit too broad for any of us to help. What's he trying to do? Is he scoring music? Does he need a full DAW? What, exactly? And yes, I'm a professional musician.
 
if hes looking for portability, then a 15" macbook pro would be nice. upgrade the ram yourself to 8GB because its much cheaper that way.

if hes looking for power/performance, but his computer is going to stay in one spot, i would recommend an imac or mac pro, depending on how much performance he needs.
 
Yep, really hard to give a recommendation without knowing which DAW he intends to use. Music software is really picky on hardware requirements. Protools is probably still the most popular DAW and even within the Protools family the hardware requirement vary greatly.

It kinda sucks that Protools is the standard all others are judged against because even the newest version PT 8 doesn't support 64bit OS and thus limits you to 4gbs of usable ram.
 
GuitarDaddy said:
Yep, really hard to give a recommendation without knowing which DAW he intends to use. Music software is really picky on hardware requirements. Protools is probably still the most popular DAW and even within the Protools family the hardware requirement vary greatly.

It kinda sucks that Protools is the standard all others are judged against because even the newest version PT 8 doesn't support 64bit OS and thus limits you to 4gbs of usable ram.
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That's even assuming that he's doing DAW work. For example, 99% of my time is spent in Sibelius (music scoring), which has completely different requirements.

But in the general case, more RAM is better. It's just a matter of finding out what's necessary.
 
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