EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Have you folks realized that the 2 new flagship G4s can only be 
configured to run under OS X.2 and beyond? As I understand it, and I 
hope I'm wrong, the new blazing boys will not properly boot an OS9.x 
partition.

Can anyone confirm this, as my info is coming from web 
security/graphics/network guys?

If we have just managed to get things ironed out under 9.1 the 
majority of the stuff we're running has not been ported to OS X.

I, too, want the new machines for plug instances, even on a G4 dual 
500 w/ 640 megs of ram find very limited use of plugins for a full 
mix. (for the record, an ultra 160 scsi chain has bumped my track 
count way up, more than 64 tracks, and the disk i/o led in the system 
performance meter way down.)

New machines may not be worth it yet... I'm interested if any lugger 
has info on this...

>Murray McDowall <murraymc@...> wrote....

>This improvement in memory spec should boost plugin instances considerably --
>eg number of compressors/ Plat verbs /VST synths you can run. G4s have been
>hobbled until now by two years out of date memory bandwidth. The Intel 845
>chipsets which were released last year for the low end P4/Celeron absolutely
>sucked compared to the 845 DDR chipsets that replaced them soon after. The bus
>speed on both versions of i845 was the same just 266 MHz DDR instead of PC133
>>>  >SDRAM.