How many computer do you have ?

[Clemie]

Only one.
Dell PII 450,
128MB
8.4GB HD
Asus CDROM
Built in Modem & LAN.
Win98SE
Cakewalk PA 9
SB Live! <-- I know but works good on me

 

[Richie Woods]

There is three in my house. Of course my daughter has the best one. (paid for by you know who).

Right now I am at the one at work. Sucky little gateway.

 

[fishtop_records]

Gee, I don't know. Something like 15 or so.
There were more, but my kid went to college
and took two....

There is my DAW, my software development PC,
five working laptops, another four or five
semi-working to semi-dead laptops,
three online Linux servers, one spare
linux server, another box that is a firewall,
several systems for my wife, an old
and slow machine running an ancient version of
Windows for old DOS games that won't run on
fast systems, etc....

Once you get to five or so per person, I think
you usually have enough.

 

[Toki987]

Re: Daaaamn!

Am I the lone Mac geek in here?

Somebody hold me!

I got ya babe... 'n James too, but the mac I have is being used as a platform to hold up a bench grinder out in the shop. It`s the old Mac 1000.

 

[M.Brane]

Re: Re: Daaaamn!

I got ya babe... 'n James too, but the mac I have is being used as a platform to hold up a bench grinder out in the shop. It`s the old Mac 1000.

Thanks T. Yeah, my IIci & Quadra 700 make cool risers for my near-fields.

 

[Strryder]

I'm running two at the moment,

1) Main DAW, 3-1/2 year old Gateway "Performance" 600

P-III 600 mhz
Intel 440BX mobo
384 MB RAM (maxed out)
single 20 GB 7200 RPM HD (partitioned into two 10's)
DVD ROM
CD-RW
3.5" floppy
Matrox G-550 Dualhead AGP card
two Envision 17" LCD monitors
M-Audio Delta 1010 soundcard
Windows 2000 Professional

Also used for internet, no games though, pretty lean in the software dept., nothing extra at all.

2) H/P Notebook, just got it last month.

Athlon XP 1.8 ghz
512 RAM (but the ATI video takes away 64 MB)
single 40 GB 4200 RPM HD (partitioned into two 15's and a 10)
DVD player/CD-RW combo drive
15" LCD - TFT display
Edirol UA-20 2x2 USB sound interface with MIDI I/O
Windows XP (home edition)

I bought this to use as a portable recorder, eventually I'll get a nice 8x8 I/O for it, maybe an RME Multiface, in the meantime, I'm using it as my synth station, I have Native Instruments B4, and Pro-53, and also Applied Acoustics Lounge Lizard electric piano, and will soon be getting G-Media's M-Tron MelloTron softsynth.

I use an M-Audio Radium 61 keyboard controller to just play the keyboard parts and record them as audio into my main DAW, hell, I'm not even a keyboard player, but I have just about enough to cover the basics, and sooner or later, my keyboard playing will have to improve... right?

 

[Track Rat]

Re: Daaaamn!

Am I the lone Mac geek in here?

Somebody hold me!

I had a G4 power Mac running Pro Tools for about a year but I sold the whole rig to a local semi big gun names Rich Landers.

 

[Toki987]

Re: Re: Daaaamn!

I had a G4 power Mac running Pro Tools for about a year but I sold the whole rig to a local semi big gun names Rich Landers.

Dammmmm! so what you usin now? You scare me dude!

 

[Jagular]

Intel 440BX mobo
384 MB RAM (maxed out)

Don't be fooled. Gateway specs may say that you can only have 3 x 128mb ram (Dell's do as well), but if you look at Intel's site you will see the 4480BX will take up to 768mb (3 x 256 mb). I have an old Dell with a 440BX mobo that I have 384 mb as well (1 x 128 + 1x 256). Once I get it up and running again I have another 128 lying around so I will bump it up to 512mb and use it for my daugher's machine and/or a game or file server or something. Just make sure you update your mobo bios.

Just in case you would be interested in adding some RAM, I thought I would let you know

 

[TomiJ]

Hey, you got one more Mac user here. Got 2 laptops. One a G3 500 Pismo used for internet. And my baby, the new G4 1Ghz 15in. 1,004mb, 60gigs. Use it for music production. Also have a nice little portable rig with a Motu828, Motu MTP-AV midi timepiece, and PresonusMP-20 mic pre. AVAmmo 40gig portable hard drive rounds it out. Waiting for the new 828 to swap. Heaven, man.

 

[Track Rat]

Toki, an Alesis HD24/MOTU 2408 mkII into a 700 MHz PIII coppermine. All clocked with a GenX6.

 

[Strryder]

Don't be fooled. Gateway specs may say that you can only have 3 x 128mb ram (Dell's do as well), but if you look at Intel's site you will see the 4480BX will take up to 768mb (3 x 256 mb). I have an old Dell with a 440BX mobo that I have 384 mb as well (1 x 128 + 1x 256). Once I get it up and running again I have another 128 lying around so I will bump it up to 512mb and use it for my daugher's machine and/or a game or file server or something. Just make sure you update your mobo bios.

Just in case you would be interested in adding some RAM, I thought I would let you know

That is a nice bit of info there! I was going by the gateway specs, having 768 mb of ram would probably help my old DAW run a little better!

Gateway also says my mobo will only support up to a 600 mhz CPU, would a 1.13 ghz run in it by any chance? I would really love to get a few more plugins outta this baby..

I'm on my way to the Intel website right now!

 

[Jagular]

That is a nice bit of info there! I was going by the gateway specs, having 768 mb of ram would probably help my old DAW run a little better!

Gateway also says my mobo will only support up to a 600 mhz CPU, would a 1.13 ghz run in it by any chance? I would really love to get a few more plugins outta this baby..

I'm on my way to the Intel website right now!

Weeeelll...it's funny you ask.

I actually have a 1 GB cpu in mine. I am not officially recommending you do this...but it worked for me. Also, I think you have to be careful what CPU you put in there. Also, keep in mind, my computer stopped working all of the sudden for reasons I have yet to discover. I suspect it is because I had so much extra stuff plugged in to the 200W psu that came with it. But, I don't really know yet.

Here is a neat link where I found the idea.

http://www.roberthancock.com/dell/

And more specifically

http://www.roberthancock.com/dell/etherdude.htm

I know those are about Dells, but it's the same mobo. I read through that again and again and again before I did the cpu upgrade. There is even a link in there with step by step instructions with pictures. Pretty cool.

You may want to Google around to see if there is any similar info out there about Gateways. I'm sure it would be virtually an identical process.

When I did this, the 1ghz cpu cost me $116. The down side now is that Intel stopped making them. I can now sell my used one for around $200 on ebay (which I may do and stick the old 600 mhz Katmai back in there) and I don't think you can find them new anymore. Unless maybe you really hunt around. That is starting to get dangerously close to not making sense when I just bought a P4 2.4 ghz & Abit BH7 mobo for $254. Depending on how much you want to canabalize your old hardware, it might just make sense to upgrade. I can't remember from the article, but you may be able to throw a Celeron in there and find those cheaper. Not sure about that.

Keep in mind, none of this is officially supported by Intel, and I'm not recommending you do it or not do it. Just giving you some info.

Hope this helps you figure out what you want to do.

 

[mstudio1224@aol.com]

G4 / 450 1G -- Main Computer DP3/Pro-Tools/Cubase
G3/450 512MB---Two track Master rec. & Graphic machine
9500 286---net,download,troubleshoot computer

IBM Laptop 766 -- Client list, e-mail, $$ files, meetings, files, calendar, a lotta business stuff

 

[mari]

two... a pc and a mac.

the pc is for internet use, business stuff, that sorta thing. Got it about a year ago. Was originally gonna use it for studio work but it got to cluttered

the mac is strictly for studio work. Its a G4 -1.25 GHz Dual, 512 MB RAM, 120GB HD. cost me several months wages!

 

[Robertyu]

I've got 3.

#1

A Dell C800 laptop for work. Nothing special, 15" screen, Pentium 3 850, 256 mb ram, 10 gb hard disk, and a mouse pointer that randomly floats across the screen until I slam my fist against the floppy drive bay.

#2

An Athlon XP 2400 based DAW. Asus MB with Nforce chipset (I forget the model no of the MB), 1gb DDR2700 memory, 200gb storage (80gb and 120gb drives, each 7200rpm with 8mb cache), ATI Radeon 8500 video card, Delta 1010 Audio interface, DVD drive, CD burner and a bunch of other crap not worth mentioning.

#3

Apple Mac G4 1000 (MDD), 1gb ram, 200gb storage (40gb and 160gb drives, bit 7200rpm but only the 160gb has the 8mb cache), Apple combo drive (reads DVDs, writes CDs), Pioneer 4x DVD burner, Delta 410 audio interface (going to swap with the PC soon so the Mac has the Delta 1010, just waiting for the AU versions of my NI softsynths to come out first).

Systems #3 and #4 share two Sony 18" flat panels. This is working well because I can operate each machine in dual-display mode, or have them both up at the same time with one display apiece, all with just by hiting the input selector buttons on the front of each display, and without messing with the cables.

Here's a pic of this mess:

http://www.contmech.com/studio/Pics/Rig2-after-800.jpg

Don't laungh at my humble little midi rig... Ahh, okay, go ahead and laugh! hahaha

 

[Fusion2]

i build systems for a living so you can imagine, i favor Epox boards next to MSI then Asus...

4 - 8k3a+ twin 80g WD jb series drives
2 - A7v333 twin 80g WD jb series drives
2 - P4 1.6a - 1.8a twin 80g WD jb series drives

just to many to deal with really, it keeps me busy paying off the CC though...

you should see the tv/video systems i run, ahem

 

[MaxB]

Pentiun Celeron 1.3 and... an Amiga 600 68030 for step sequencing (Octamed SoundStudio) connected via midi at the PC.

 

[Doug Quance]

Four, here. Good thing I don't have a wife or kids!

1. Custom built twin 2.2 GHz Xeons; 1 Gig DDR Ram; 40 Gig system drive; twin 80 Gig project drives in RAID Array; 80 Gig export drive; nine cooling fans (there's more, but I won't bore you with the details) used for video and audio editing.

2. Dell P4 1.6 GHz; 256 Meg Ram; 40 Gig HD; my office desktop.

3. Dell P4 1.6 GHz; 256 Meg Ram; 30 Gig HD; my laptop.

3. Dell P2 450 MHz; 384 Meg Ram; 40 Gig system drive; 14 Gig backup drive; my home computer.

I have NO parts whatsoever (unless you count the zip drive that is disconnected in my home computer so that I could add a CD burner).

When I'm done with a computer, it finds a new home. I can't see keeping them around when I can always find someone in need of a free computer.

 

[djc]

No wife or kids?

You lucky bastard!