Portable system for HD?

[bobdodgy]

Hello - Im doing a fair bit of travel at the moment - Is it possible to make a clone of my HD rig's startup disk, and then, when I visit other studios, use that drive as the system disk, and basically have an identical system with all my software and plugs installed and ready to go, with a minimum of stuffing around in new studios?

or am I dreaming?

I have an old G5 with the PCIe slots, so pretty much every computer I use should be more recent than that.

It's running 10.5.7 and is HD3

Bob.

[Craig F]

well a PPC OS will not do well on and Intel machine

[DigiTechSupt]

Other than the situation that Craig laid out, this is an excellent way to work. Going from Intel machine to Intel machine or PPC to PPC should work great.

The only problem you may encounter would be plug-in authorizations that are tied to the computer hardware. IK Multimedia is one and I'm sure there are at least a few others that may have issues.

[bobdodgy]

Thanks chaps - that makes sense.
So all the native instruments, Izotope, Albeton, Toast will fall into that category i suppose...? Boring!

the ilok is a wonderful scheme!

Thanks,
Bob