dell computers as digital editors

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Will a Dell work for digital editing... I plan on useing ADAT edit and Sound forge.
1.8 ghz P4
512mb SSDR RAM
80 gb HD
48x cdr
48x24x48x max cd-rw

Any Comments or suggestions.
Price is really an issue here so I cant by a Superman version of a DAW

thanks
 
If I was going to buy an off the shelf PC I think Dell is the only one I would buy. It will probably perform ok, but suggestion is that you build one.
 
The dell with those specs will do just fine. I have a 1.3 p4 with 512mb and I don't have any problems.
 
I would do a clean sweep of the hard drive though, to get all the bullshit they pre-install on it.

I did that on my notebook, and gained back 2 gigs of space. I shit you not.
 
I've had good luck with my wussy Dell!
PIII 450 mhz, 256Megs RAM. It sucked when I had Windows 98 and all that Dell cr*p on it, but I wiped the system drive and put Win2K on it and it's like a whole new machine...
My songs are usually no more than 5 or 6 tracks (wussy folk music) so I've never run out of power when multi-tracking/mixing (N-Track/Delta 44). As soon as the wife gives the go ahead, I'll buy another Dell (at least 2ghz!).
Good luck!
 
Be careful which Dell you buy. Some of their budget models have plenty of horse power but only one spare PCI slot, so you would be extrememly limited when it came time to add peripherals.

I bought the 4500 model and its spec's are very similar to what you described. I'm extrememly happy with it.

Ditto what Polaris said. I spent a lot of time taking unecessary crap off the machine and disabled some start-up programs. I alos went through the optimization worksheet that has been published on this site...I''ll try to find a link.
 
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Do you have a direct link to that? I cannot find it on the tascam site.
 
Dell PCs

I've always used Dells and have had no problems. Currently using a P3 500, with various extras (two soundcards, extra hard-drive, USB hub etc) which is OK. Running Logic 5 (no comment !) at present.

However, I'm intending to replace it next year and will probably be getting a purpose-built "audio" PC from one of the specialist suppliers here in the UK. I would like to build one myself but have crap eyesight !!

khapahk
 
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