Anyone have any tips on a solid music computer? I'm currently using a win 7 PC which is getting a bit tired so thinking about an upgrade. I mostly use Cubase with a large variety of plugins (some free, some paid for, some naughty) and have very little under-the-hood Mac experience and don't want to find out that some of my older/legacy hardware isn't supported by a more recent OS...
At the moment it's an in place studio tool (glorified tape machine) but a laptop might be useful with future live endeavours and location work. Added to that, I need to learn pro-tools properly at some point and all studios seem to use macs.
Upgrading current machine would involve new MB/processor/RAM (and probably SSD) plus OS surgery upgrading to 64bit, so I'm thinking a whole new machine is probably more sensible.
Anyone have any tips on a solid music computer? I'm currently using a win 7 PC which is getting a bit tired so thinking about an upgrade. I mostly use Cubase with a large variety of plugins (some free, some paid for, some naughty) and have very little under-the-hood Mac experience and don't want to find out that some of my older/legacy hardware isn't supported by a more recent OS...
At the moment it's an in place studio tool (glorified tape machine) but a laptop might be useful with future live endeavours and location work. Added to that, I need to learn pro-tools properly at some point and all studios seem to use macs.
Upgrading current machine would involve new MB/processor/RAM (and probably SSD) plus OS surgery upgrading to 64bit, so I'm thinking a whole new machine is probably more sensible.