12" 800 MHz iBook G4

[joeburnem]

I never used a mac before. But I've read great stuff about them. And I hear the older ones work almost as well as the new. I've passed up a couple deals but now I think I 'm ready to get my feet wet.

I've found a 12" 800 MHz iBook G4 at a repair shop for $150.oo .

now... experience mac users, will I be able to run Ableton Live, cool edit and internet without problems.

 

[thedreampolice]

cool edit is a windows program so no on the cool edit. How much ram does that thing have? It will be very slow, but for $150...

 

[joeburnem]

It has 512mb

 

[Shonsteez]

$150s a steal, but that may not be the best spec'd machine for music production?.....You typically want waaaay more ram than that. Im sure you can find a copy of Live for it though. Lives a pretty CPU friendly program actually, plus if it gets bad you can always freeze the tracks that arent in use if you get a hold of a new enough version. You still gotta make sure that your OS supports the software that your plannin on using too though.

 

[NobleWordz]

$150? I would have bought it on the spot. It being a mac is going to give you a little extra juice, if it was a Laptop built for windows use it would be another story.

You can easily run Reason 3 on it.

 

[Shonsteez]

Word, Reasons real friendly to your CPU as well....The only time ive seen Reason choke on a system that had 512DDR was when too many Malstroms and XTs along with FX were assigned.

 

[joeburnem]

What would be the ideal specs for a music production lap top?

 

[wizard]

upgrade it asap!

 

[Shonsteez]

2 gigs of RAM, and a harddrive of at least 80 gigs, w/ a processor thats at least 2 gHz will be good for sessions that have a lot of tracks and heavy effects or use a lot of synths that are CPU hungry.