[hcorf]

I saw the keynote video for the new ilife suite, garageband looks fantastic to me, but can i run it reasonably on my 800mhz g4 ibook? or is this why people buy powermacs?
I think steve was running it on a g5 in the keynote, but apple apps tend to be faster at doing the same thing than third party software.

[OreoCookie]

A friend of mine -- a musician -- that has tested it said GarageBand was quite fast and very stable.

He runs Logic 6.x on his PowerBook G4 400 running Panther at home.

[SupahCoolX]

I would just recommend getting as much RAM as possible if you plan on doing a lot with GarageBand. It's a pretty RAM-intensive app.

[natan]

Originally posted by OreoCookie:
A friend of mine -- a musician -- that has tested it said GarageBand was quite fast and very stable.

He runs Logic 6.x on his PowerBook G4 400 running Panther at home.

Are you implying that he tested GarageBand on his TiPB/400 and it ran fine? Or on another machine?

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by natan:
Are you implying that he tested GarageBand on his TiPB/400 and it ran fine? Or on another machine?

I don't think so since it's his personal machine. But I know it was tested on a wide variety of machines, and his comment was that the app was fast and stable. No specifics on the particular machines used, though. (But they have all kinds, many kinds of G4s, iMacs, iMac G4s, etc.)

[dracoleb]

I'm sure that an iLife app will not need the top of the line to run acceptably. I did have a question though, How would you hook a guitar up to an iBook, there's no line-in

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by dracoleb:
I'm sure that an iLife app will not need the top of the line to run acceptably. I did have a question though, How would you hook a guitar up to an iBook, there's no line-in

There are plenty of USB devices that'll take care of that.

[natan]

Originally posted by dracoleb:
I'm sure that an iLife app will not need the top of the line to run acceptably. I did have a question though, How would you hook a guitar up to an iBook, there's no line-in

What do you mean by "run acceptably"? GarageBand needs at least a G4 to use software instruments, according to Apple's published requirements. This means that any G3 iBook cannot use software instruments (synthesis of midi information). Thus, a top of the line iBook from mid-October 2003 will not run acceptably at all.

[natan]

Originally posted by OreoCookie:
There are plenty of USB devices that'll take care of that.

In fact, Apple recommends a number of specific devices here and is now selling them through the Apple Store.

[hadocon]

Originally posted by natan:
What do you mean by "run acceptably"? GarageBand needs at least a G4 to use software instruments, according to Apple's published requirements. This means that any G3 iBook cannot use software instruments (synthesis of midi information). Thus, a top of the line iBook from mid-October 2003 will not run acceptably at all.

This is exactly why Apple ditched the G3. Sorry to be the one who has to break it to you.

[hcorf]

is said i have a 800mhz G4 ibook G4 G4 G4 G4 G4

get the idea?

sorry to be rude but no one appears to be answering the original question except about 1 person.

[sworthy]

I was at MWSF and used it on a 1.25 GHz iMac. It ran pretty well - not a speed demon mind you - but it only lagged every now and then. Your 800 MHz G4 will do just fine, maybe expect slight slowdowns when you use a lot of loops at the same time.

Regardless, It's faster than iPhoto 2

[Nausicaa]

I was quite disappointed with the performance of GB. Compared to Soundtrack, it's quite a dog. Anything more than four tracks severely lags the program. I realize that midi loops are a bit more CPU intensive, but even with no midi loops, it's not as fast as it should be. I can a ST tune with more than ten tracks and there won't be the slightest bit of slowdown.

I don't think this is a serious problem, but I hope it gets ironed out with Apple's first update patch.