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Looks like a decent setup.

I have played around on an m powered system long enough to track 1 session. In my experiences not that big of a difference to tell you no. So I say go for it.

Thx, I have been working with protools for like 5 years now and never had that happned so I will get the client back in today so we can try and get that taken care of.

Open what workspace and which help file?

Ok had a session last night protools was having problems playing sessions off of the clients hard drive. Said it wasn't getting audio fast enough. Ok fine with that then we went to record a new session and it wouldn't let me create a new session because it was saying the drive was not record...

Obviously you never owned a mac, my powerbook g4 can even run protools 7.4 and its only like 1.33ghz processor and 768mb of ram. so if I wanted to I could use it. The only thing it can't handle is my video editing. Thebig cheese.. You can use usb stuff for recording but not the best, at home...

A mixer will not change the way your mixes sound, At the studio I used to work for we had a mackie d8b it was hooked up with protools and we also had it hooked up to run on a hd24 standalone hard disk recorder. Mine and my bosses mixes sounded the same on both machines, the difference is what...

Yeah I know, more goes into my decision than just the firewire thing because the only thing I have that is firewire now is my external drive and it does have usb capabilities as well. Its really there is not a major jump in technology that makes me want to upgrade. Now I do know that the new...

I was planning on buying a new one just cause the one i have is the original all white macbook with 1.83ghz core duo upgraded to 2gigs of ram but just because of the no firewire I am not going to upgrade cause I just bought me a firewire drive even though I also can use usb with it I'm not going to.

k thx, and yeah spending all of the extra money is what I'm trying to avoid.

The only thing I was going to use the hub for is like my keyboard, mouse, external dvd burner, the mbox was going to be plugged into the macbook directly and my external hd is firewire so wasn't going to use the hub for anything major.

lol :D I agree 100%

So that would explain to me what my boss had to buy when I couldn't get the plugins installed on the computer we used at the studio to install the plugins when we upgraded to pt there. And bennychico you are making me realize everyday how much I think I know is nowhere near enough but if I...

Wasn't stating doing this method as the best idea but just stating if he has no other choice for the time being not meaning it as a long term solution just something short term.

Thx for all of the replies guys, My thing was I didn't know if i should get a powered usb hub or not, I was looking at one in a computer shop today for $17.99 it looked like it had a spot for a power adapter to go into but it didnt come with one so not sure if I should get it or not.

I have a lot of vst's that work fine with PT but not sure what all you have so I would go trial and error but someone else might know better than me but like I said I haven't had a problem.

Sorry, didnt realize he said he was on a mac, but i do a lot of mixing for clients and I transfer files back and forth between my 4gb flash drive and because it was formatted for windows I have to drag and drop onto my mac. So I drop it onto desktop in OSX tiger mix it then toss it back on my...

U can use some VST's

Gecko well said, i agree.

Don't Let it discourage you a buddy of mine had the same issue with a external hard drive so he just recorded onto the computer and then dumped the files over to his external and just mixed them off of it. All of the files transferred just fine so he was cool with it. Maybe something you...