seems a btt expensive...

[minofifa]

http://www.alienware.com/Product_Pages/workstation_audio_all.aspx

http://www.alienware.com/Configurator_Pages/ozma_4500.aspx?SysCode=PC-OZMA4500&SubCode=SKU-EXTREME

Formost, these systems seem WAY too overpriced. I've never owned an alienware but.... c'mon. I like how they throw in an maudio firewire card and call it a maestro's dream...

One thing that earks me is how they "recomend" rediculous components like 4 gigs of RAM and 500 gig harddrives. I do realize that 4 gigs would rule but if i had to recomend a "dream music machine" i would at least say like 2 gigs of ram.... i mean could you really notice a difference between 3 and 4 gigs of RAM for the great increase in cost? As for the 500 gig hard drive, i would think that it would start to get pretty slow when windows is searching though 500 gigs of data for what you want.

I guess the point of this post is. does anybody buy thses machines? or at least does anybody think this is a good deal?

 

[bennychico11]

not to mention how long it would take to defrag the hard drive. I agree though, pretty damn expensive. I wonder how much it would cost to make a computer on your own with the same components. for that much I'd just buy a Mac or two

 

[Sklathill]

4 gigs of RAM is a dream come true...especially when you're running things like Vienna Symphonic Library. 70 gigs of samples man...and the pro version is supposed to ship on a 200 gig harddrive or something like that...

I'm hoping to make the next step this weekend, upgrading my 768 meg machine to 1.5 gigs (taking out a 256 meg dimm, adding a 1 gig dimm...) and that should help immensely. Currently, it takes me as long as 3-4 minutes to load my most sample heavy music tracks. Miroslav Vitous may be last generation, but it's still a frigging load of samples...

 

[minofifa]

what i find funny is how a normal (but awsome) comuter becomes and audio computer just by offering us an option to select recording software when we customize it. i guess the option of the m-aduio soundcards is cool but if i were selling "audio computers' i would offer many more audio-specific options (racmount cases, quiet fans, more sound card choices, monitors, other periferals like MIDI controlers, multiple hard drives), ye know stuff like that.