A new iMac for under $500?

[Severe]

interesting:

"The annual exercise of the Mac faithful--guessing the products Apple Computer plans to announce at MacWorld--has some Web sites predicting the release of a sub-$500 desktop aimed at new users.

Two Mac-focused sites--Think Secret and Apple Insider--reported on the possible release of a low-end Apple PC this week, citing unnamed sources. The rumored $499 Mac will have no monitor, 256MB of RAM, a 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 processor and a hard drive with storage capacity between 40GB and 80GB, according to the reports."


CNET

Reuters

Forbes

[Severe]

ok...noone cares?


The reason I find it so interesting is because of Logic Pro 7's Distributed Audio and the possibilities.





and more...

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=802

[mersisblue]

im afraid it wont be be of much help with Distributive processing

since it doesnt have a high enough ethernet the only option is firewire

which limits you to one node . I dont know if you can have other nodes using ethernet along side this or not though

but for 500 it is sort of interesting and tempting .

[tele_player]

If you read the Logic white paper on Distributed Audio, you'll see that for maximum streams, Gigabit Ethernet is recommended. For a smaller number of streams, 100Mbit ethernet will work, and I think it would be quite useful, if only to offload a reverb or two.

You can easily do the engineering-style 'back of envelope' calculations to determine bandwidth requirements. A 48k/24bit stream takes about a megabit. Even allowing for massive inefficiency due to overhead, 100Mbit shouldn't have any trouble carrying several bidirectional streams.

We'd need to visit some Logic discussion forums to see how this plays out in the real world - I'm sure somebody's tried it by now.

[Shelob9]

If you read the Logic white paper on Distributed Audio, you'll see that for maximum streams, Gigabit Ethernet is recommended.

Were can I find said whitepaper?
This could be very cool for distributed processing. Puts it at the cost of The UA Project Pack.

[tele_player]

I don't recall exactly where I found it - but it was definitely through the Apple or Emagic site. I investigated this when Logic 7 was announced, it's been a while.