Re: Why Hardware?

["Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>]

> Steve Lawson wrote:
>>
>> I guess it's no longer works/doesn't work, it's more a matter of
>> performance orientation and cost... There's no way I could run any 
>looping
>> software on my macbook without it crapping out - way too much going on 
>on it
>> anyway, I wouldn't even have the hard-disc space for it. To get it 
>reliable
>> enough, I'd need a dedicated looping rig laptop,

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> 
wrote:

> or a dual boot


Quite feasible.

Back when I was making a living doing studio recordings for clients on
a Windows PC I even used a five part bootable partition system. That
made it really simple! If Windows fucked up I simply rebooted into an
identical clone of that system + applications partition and kept up
the work flow. Simplicity rules!

The setup was two identical system partitions for audio recording
(tweaked for CPU efficiency and stability), a third identical clone
used for beta testing of software, one office work system and one
"crap system" partition used for downloading and gaming.

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