[RWP] getting a mac for reaper what's the deal??

[Chris Belle]

Scot, you can read a lot about dpc latencies on the net, a great machine 
with lots of power will be a dog with a daw if processes are demanding 
too much time in the kernel, and a lesser well tuned machine with the 
right parts and software will run circles around this.

Don't mean to sound like a know it all, but I've been doing this lots of 
years, and been there and done that, and went through the torture with 
my students.

That high dpc latency is what kills more windows machines for daw work.

YOu want 30 m us or less Jim's machines get in the single digits or 
lower double digits, your usual windows machine is usually about 250 or 
300, you can do things on some motherboards like turn of high precission 
event timer and get lower dpc, but it's much more than that.

these daw vendors know what to tweak and they keep up with all the 
motherboard revissions, and it's something even experienced pc builders 
don't often know about.

I went through it with a custom shop,
several times, them when I got my first purpose built daw, which didn't 
cost really anymore than the shop machine it was like going from a buggy 
airplane that sort of work to a rocket ship which could go off planet 
without getting out of 2nd gear.

I did 100 plus tracks in xp without having to freeze tracks, it made me 
smile when these guys over on hrs were talking about 30 tracks being a 
heavy load for their imacs,

windows can be a real piece of crap, but with the right stuff and 
properly configured it's obscenely powerful.
that's the beauty and the other side of windows people don't realize, 
our hardware choices allow us to pick beter not just bargain, and the os 
allows to tweak in ways the mac can't easily be done.

But with all that, the mac still has many things to drool over, if we 
weren't blind and didn't have to take thing on an accessibility and 
useability first option, the world would be our oister.

but that's just the way it is out west.



On 5/15/2014 12:18 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> Ah, gotcha. Used to be the case, but not so much nowadays is the answer to that.
>
> That's a pretty powerful machine you're running there already, so I
> guess the first thing to do is ask what isn't working out with the
> current setup?
>
> On 5/15/14, trahern culver <sound.warrior20 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just thought the hardware would be better.
>>
>> Does any one have recommendations for good laptops to run reaper on kind
>> regards trey.
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