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  1. A Jumble of Jazz CDs for Sale (Modern, Avant)

    in Offering and Looking For...

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    PM with question on:

     

    Eddie Gale -- Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music (Blue Note SHM CD) $10

    John Jenkins, Cliff Jordan, Bobby Timmons -- Jenkins, Jordan, and Timmons (Prestige SHM-CD) $10

    Johnny "Hammond" Smith -- That Good Feelin' (Prestige SHM-CD) $10

    Art Taylor -- Taylor's Tenors (Prestige SHM-CD) $10

    Mal Waldron -- Mal 1 (Prestige SHM-CD) $10

    Mal Waldron -- Impressions (Prestige SHM-CD) $10

  17. HD DVD R.I.P.

    in Audio Talk

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    I don't want to derail the thread, but, frankly, I am not really interested in wich format won the war. I think that the future will be in broad band downloading, so all this is a whortless efforts and a waste of money for something that will be wiped off in the next, let's say three, four years?

    My two cents.

    Agreed...but...downloads will be in HD. I'm downloading a 1080p rental tonight on my Apple TV as a matter of fact.

    However, nothing like watching a Blu-Ray disc! Can't be beat!

  23. MacBook advice

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    I think Chris is confusing his PC systems. XP is not troublesome in my experience.

    XP was extremely unstable before service pack 1 [sP1] was released. It took around a year for MS to release it. Vista seems to be following the same path. I wouldn't even consider using Vista until the first SP is available given the track record. That said, Microsoft made a test build of Vista SP1 available to the public today so there's relief on the way:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...a/bb738089.aspx

    Not to down XP at all. I have been using MS software since MS DOS 1.0. Windows XP IS the best OS that Microsoft has delivered to the public to date. Can anyone say Windows ME? :excited:

  24. MacBook advice

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    Clunky, all new Mac should ship with Leopard. If you are being offered one with Tiger, don't buy it. I have been using Leopard since it was introduced and it is much better than Tiger, good as Tiger was.

    One caveat: A friend recently bought a Mac (switching from PC) specifically to use Logic audio software. He received the new machine and software, only to learn that Logic will not run in Leopard! Trying to "downgrade" to Tiger, he somehow mucked things up. Weeks later, still trying to straighten it out.

    Probably he bought the wrong version of Logic. The Universal for Mac OS X is the one he needs. I'd return that software for the newer version for sure. I've seen it demoed and it's very impressive.

  25. MacBook advice

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    I'm thinking about getting a MacBook to wirelessly network with my home PC. I'm increasingly fed-up with instability in Windows XP, crashes etc and hope that a Mac might be easier to use ( for my wife , really) and rather less hassle. I would need a program to allow basic editing of audio files (wav, MP3 etc) such as recording, track splitting, etc

    From what I've read converting to Mac shouldn't be too tough.

    Any thoughts re what spec of MacBook to go for, is 1G of RAM enough for standard applications.?

    The biggest files it's likely to need to handle could be 900Mb audio files- would 1 G be ok or a little sluggish.?

    Also I see some retailers are still selling Tiger OS rather than Leopard OS- does that matter?

    Thanks in advance

    All new Apples will ship with Mac OS X Leopard installed. It's the latest flavor of the operating system.

    1 GB of memory will be sufficient...trust me, you will not be experiencing sluggishness, but of course 2 GB is superior and a notable improvement in all applications will be seen. I bought an extra GB for my MacBook Pro and saved quite a bit more just to pop the chip into the slot myself...you may give that some thought.

    I cannot give you any suggestions for audio apps because I curently still do that type of work on Windows machines. However I enjoy using my Mac for just about EVERYTHING else and prefer it by far. It's a joy to use and after making this my latest computer purchase I can easily say that I'll buy nothing but Apple computers in the future.

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