thecheeks Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 i mostly wanted this intel mac so that i could run GarargeBand for my friend, hes awsome at it, whenever we go into the apple store he busts out awsome songs lol. so will it work/install or does there have to be a specific port of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavalierwisk Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 it runs fine for me under rosetta. the only problem you'll run into is how much of its functionality you will actually have with your hardware due to drivers (i.e. stuff like audio input) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega01 Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 Due to the rosetta emulation the performance of GarageBand is simply not good enough to do serious things with it. I'd recommend either to wait for the next version of GarageBand or to buy a mac mini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskurza Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 I have been using garageband for a while but as eveybody else said, it runs slow and one of the most important features like "amp simulation" is just kills the applications. you can't playback amp simulated entruments. However I still use it for my drums.. Until it is complied for intel I dont think it can be used as a stand alone software. I use cool-edit for recording with my creative audigy on WinXP and switch the files over to garageband for effects and compression etc.. Hope this helps.. thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriHFH Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 I have been using garageband for a while but as eveybody else said, it runs slow and one of the most important features like "amp simulation" is just kills the applications. you can't playback amp simulated entruments. However I still use it for my drums.. Until it is complied for intel I dont think it can be used as a stand alone software. I use cool-edit for recording with my creative audigy on WinXP and switch the files over to garageband for effects and compression etc.. Hope this helps.. thx Uh... what? I've been running garageband since i installed osx86 and it runs perfectly. I don't run it in Rosetta. I can playback amp simulated instruments.... Am I just lucky?! I've also installed the complete garageband jampack w/ 2000 more loops.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskurza Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 its a Powerpc application.. what do you mean u are not using rosetta? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
would_pay_for_mac_on_x86 Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Due to the rosetta emulation the performance of GarageBand is simply not good enough to do serious things with it. I'd recommend either to wait for the next version of GarageBand or to buy a mac mini. sad.. are your stats below still correct? its slow on your 3.0ghz hw? are you overclocking at all? -------------------- MSI 915G Combo-FR Intel p4 630 1 GB Kingston DDR2 Pioneer DVR-110D Maxtor 250GB SATA 6L250S0 Generic DVD install R1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecheeks Posted November 3, 2005 Author Share Posted November 3, 2005 so it WILL install and run correctly? seems its 50/50 so far... ill get it soon and try it out hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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