I just put in my order for a desktop system that I'm buying specifically to seperate out my music and photography work machine from my gaming and internet faffery laptop... I am excite
...that is all, I just wanted to share my excitement >.<
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The Alastair Collins wrote:
specifically to seperate out my music and photography work machine from my gaming and internet faffery laptop...
I've been doing this for 11 years now - HUGE recommendation for everyone if you can afford it. I keep mine off the internet too and run a dedicated RAID box for it. So so win. You can totally minimise all drivers, etc. If you have a few extra bucks get it from a specialist DAW builder - they will acoustically treat the box and optimise the crap out of the OS for you.
Welcome to being "serious" about your systems! Just wait until you get a "spider" and start callibrating your monitors to be right. Make SURE you get an IPS panel on your monitor... it's ashame we are still 3 years from OLED.
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Adelaide, South Australia
My pr0n is all on an external, should I want to take it with me to the work machine, but I can stream at any time on the iPad, so it's kind of a moot point...
Yeah, I've been meaning to seperate out and remove my work machine from the internet for a while. I've just only gotten the funds together now.
The specs are... an Intel Dual Core G620 (2.6GHz), 500TB HDD, 4GB RAM (which is getting upped to 8GB come my next pay day), plus some USB 3.0 ports. It's pretty bare bones, so I can work it up more down the road.
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Adelaide, South Australia
...I may have oversold the HDD capacity by mistake... 500GB
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Adelaide, Australia
I'll admit I feel cheated by the lack of TB in this thread.
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St Louis
I really want to do this. my laptop is approaching a year and a half old, and it's my only machine. I really want two laptops! hopefully I can afford something in the not too distant future. congrats on the new comp!
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The future
I only have 2TB on my audio machine. Its almost full.. need to clear off some of my mixdowns and masters
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Adelaide, South Australia
I have a plentitude of externals, around 6TB now I think, where I store my iTunes library and my photo and music work archives. I prefer a reasonably conservative in-system storage option, since it encourages me to archive and backup often