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A couple things: 5 minutes internet research gets you a long way. First of all, not all Celerons were/are bad. The old Celerons based on PIII's in the 1Ghz to 1.33Ghz range were quite good; my Gateway laptop is running a 1.33, and performs better than any P4 (not P4-based Celeron, but a P4) up...

Steve Vai's Alive in an Ultra World was recorded on a 450Mhz G4. If it's good enough for Steve, it's good enough.

And the 3500+ is still faster than the 3.4Ghz, in most tests. It also doesn't generate as much heat.

With the exception of the Pentium M, Intel is on a downward spiral. No one cares about their BTX standard, the 775 stuff is a flop, and they are the most inefficient chipmaker out there. Their top performing chip hasn't been a 2.6Ghz for a long time. Yet they get their ass handed to them by...

I am now running Fedora Core 3 on one partition. Smooth as silk, actually faster than XP. I've got Office XP, Project 2000, and Photoshop 7 all running under WINE, so I can still do all that kind of thing, in addition to web editing with Mozilla Composer. At about $100 for a larger HD, it's...

The easiest way to run the same PC on the Internet as you use as a DAW is this: 1. Get a big drive: 200gig Seagates are running $130 now 2. Partition it in half 3. Load Fedora Core 3 on one half, XP Pro on the other 4. Disable the NIC on the XP side, optimize for audio 5. Run office apps...

Anything that says "Creative" is shit, especially a USB based card. Yikes. This isn't yours, is it? If so, spam sucks.

The small drive vs. big drive thing was true 5 years ago, not so much today. Run SiSoft sandra file system benchmarks on a big drive and a small one. There's really no difference. Especially with SATA. And no one should be building a new computer with EIDE drives.

Um, just go on the Internet dude. Are you behind a firewall? I surf, play games, and record on my PC, all on the same partition. No big deal. I never get spyware or viruses. You're on a Mac, so that should be even less of an issue.

You can get a Compaq Athlon 3000+ laptop with 512MB Ram and 60gig HD for $999.

If possible, I'd wait until winter NAMM to see how Echo's new FW stuff is. If their other stuff is any indication, it will be awesome.

Yes, that is true. Oxford 911 chipsets are a must for audio drives. www.macsales.com sell fantastic enclosures as well as complete drives. I highly recommend them. They are not cheap, but they perform better than LaCie and Glyph.

Another troll. great.

$1470 for a P4 3.2???? Damn, that must either be a Carillion or MusicXPC.

No offense to Sonny, but I find it amusing when people say don't use your DAW for internet, e-mail, gaming, etc. My desktop does all of the above, plus audio. No issues. When I get frustrated that I can't get a part quite right, I take a break and fire up my lightsaber in Jedi Academy, on the...

Pipelineaudio, Carillion said your check's in the mail. hehehe =) Two techs can build the same machine. One will be better. Luckily I've been on the right side of this equation, I guess. Maybe the fact that I take apart, fix, and modify desktops, servers, and laptops everyday helps. If the...

My point was that even coming in over $350 less, I configured a machine with more HD space and a chip that will stomp the Carillion's balls. And it will be quiet too.

I smell some steamy bullshit. PC's are just as stable as Macs, as long as you don't buy crap. Do you run a $399 Mac? No. So why expect a $399 PC to do the same job? Still, you can spend the same amount of money on the cheapest Mac, and have a PC that will run circles around most Macs. I'd be...

Looks good to me, as long as you feel comfortable putting it together.

AC1 Core 2: Intel P4 3GHz, Intel D865PE motherboard, Radeon 7000 Dual Head 64 MB, 1024MB DDR RAM, 80GB IDE Drive, 120GB Serial ATA Drive, DVD/RW, Windows XP $1999 Monarch A64 system, 3yr warranty: Athlon 64 3500+, Abit motherboard, Radeon 7000 dual head, 1024MB DDR ram 120gig SATA, 250gig...