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On Aug 28, 2012, at 10:34 AM, gino wong <wonggster@gmail.com> wrote:
Fritz, it looks like I got an extra special price. The guy who sold me 5 500 gig drives at $80 each had trouble finding work until I wrote him a letter of recommendation (he did 9 yrs for manslaughter). I did not realize he was doing me a favor. Even at normal $1 a gig that is a great price.
Do you use desktop Mac Pros ? I am finding out some crazy shit about them.Mark,Good luck with the Dell, I think you have made a fine choice.On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 7:52 AM, John Hammaren <hammaren@geoconcepts.com> wrote:Microcenter has them for about $70 for 64Gb, and the trend is basically getting to $1/Gb which is supposed to be trigger. Reminds me of the time when $1/MB for RAM was a big deal. Now who even cares. The big thing with SSD is whether the current leaders, particularly OCZ will stay in business long enough to compete with Intel. There’s talk about Seagate buying them. Then we should see the prices drop through the floor if Intel and Seagate go at it. Assuming the fab plants can make enough NAND chips.
From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of fdoddy@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:47 AM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Analog Synths and laptops
solid state drives cheap?! where? I haven't seen any cheap solid state drives.
fritz
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From: gino wong <wonggster@gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 9:57 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Analog Synths and laptops
I just got some solid state usb 3.0 drives for my wifes new Macbook pro (Windoews)
Those things are so cool, fast and cheap.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:32 AM, <fdoddy@aol.com> wrote:
More ram!!!
Komplete 8 Ultimate
make sure your laptop has a usb 3 or firewire port (dunno if they have Thunderbolt for PC's yet) and get your self a few drives (audio, samples and backup)
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fritz
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From: mellotronmadness <mellotronmadness@yahoo.com.au>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 2:13 am
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Analog Synths and laptops
Much to my surprise, and my wife's, I returned from a recent trip to Wellington without a new synthesizer, I tried out the Moog Slim Phatty and the DSI Mopho, I quite liked the Mopho but in the end I decided to stick with the Microkorg.
I also tried the Roland Gaia which has a great layout but to my ears a rather disappointing sound. Oddly enough if I was going to be tempted to buy another synthesizer it would be the M-Audio Venom.
Anyway with Windows 8 on the horizon I've decided to replace my 10 yr old laptop with something a bit more powerful.
I am computer literate but I haven't been following hardware for some years, I am looking at getting a laptop with an Intel I5 processor, 4 gig of ram and a 500 gig hard drive running windows 7.
I'll be using my usb sound card. I can't face getting to grips with Apple and anyway I've got too much pc software that I still want to use.
Anybody have any other suggestions or advice?
Thanks
Mark
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Gino Wong Birgelo
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