Now i have no experience of mac/apple whatsoever (apart from being given an ipad as an xmas gift 2 yrs ago) so hoping for a little advice, as i've always had windows based pc's
I have a 13 yr old son who has just started to get interested in making online radio broadcasts/podcasts and making jingles etc, he currently goes once a week to a creative arts thing for kids and he has just been using apples logic pro 8 or 9 to have a go at making music, they have a mac tower from what i have seen, i dont know how old this is.
he seemed to be having fun having a play with this programme although he didnt use any of the recording extras they have in the studio such as the mixers or using a midi keyboard which they had hooked up, as just playing around with the programme was enough to take in on a first attempt.
I was quite interested in having something like this at home, being as I play keyboard and our eldest plays guitar I thought it would be quite fun to have, I was told logic costs around £130 and is only available to apple (not windows based pcs)
I have just bought the garageband app for my ipad which we have had fun messing around with.
I looked on ebay and seen a guy who was selling off some old g5 power macs that had been refurbished & upgraded (said they were getting rid due to upgrading their studio macs) obviously they were using them to make music as they have said they still come with logic pro 9, garage band and final cut installed along with lots of extra jam tracks & adobe & ms suite and lots of other stuff, some were 2003 models with the latest 2005 and started from £80 for the tower plus the installed programmes up to £169 (obviously the dearer they go they have more memory as have been upgraded)
i was tempted to purchase one, but contacted the place he goes and they told me not to bother as the machines are almost 10 years old and you can get the g5 power macs on ebay a lot cheaper, and i should maybe look into a new mac and purchase the software or just let him use theirs until we know if he is serious & not just another fad.
So i am basically after peoples opinions, would it be a waste to spend say £120 on one of these older macs (160gb hard drive, 1gb ram, 2x1.8ghz processors osx 10.5 leopard)
as i was thinking if that is what the programme costs alone then its like getting a free tower, and if i wanted to invest in a newer machine down the line i could transfer the programmes over (i have not yet checked regarding licence codes or if the machines come with the actual proper discs), i dont see the point in going out spending thousands of pounds on one as ive seen them for around £3k and just for something the kids can mess around on i dont see the point.
Is there a problem with older pc's? my own desktop I have had since windows 7 came out so that is ancient by todays standards but still does what i require for a home pc, so do you think it is a waste of money, a basic power mac g5 2005 i seen on ebay with nothing on just dual 2ghz processors, 512mb ddr2 sdram, 2x 250gb hard disks on osx 10.4.11 sold for £51
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