Computer Technology Amazes Me

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   So I'm setting up my recording studio, slowly but surely, when I soon
discover I need another hard drive. Although my computer runs at a
decent enough speed to do sound recording and has a good sound card
(which i bought not too long ago) I realized I had no space on my hard
drive, which stores roughly 14 GB on it, which I figured was pretty
small considering its three or so years old. I've simultaneously been
reading Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies and it said that most
people usually use more than one hard drive and that "as of the writing
of this book" a 40 GB hard drive costs $120. So then I check out the
store, and I'm like, DAMN BOY! I got a $60 deal on a 160 GB hard drive!
I couldn't believe it. I'm not computer idiot, but I just don't buy
computer hardware all that often, and I was just amazed by how fast the
technology progresses. 

Oh yeah, that book was written late 2002. 

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Sweetnighter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 24 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1298	Topic: Computer Technology Amazes Me Posted: January 18 2005 at 19:06
	So I'm setting up my recording studio, slowly but surely, when I soon discover I need another hard drive. Although my computer runs at a decent enough speed to do sound recording and has a good sound card (which i bought not too long ago) I realized I had no space on my hard drive, which stores roughly 14 GB on it, which I figured was pretty small considering its three or so years old. I've simultaneously been reading Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies and it said that most people usually use more than one hard drive and that "as of the writing of this book" a 40 GB hard drive costs $120. So then I check out the store, and I'm like, DAMN BOY! I got a $60 deal on a 160 GB hard drive! I couldn't believe it. I'm not computer idiot, but I just don't buy computer hardware all that often, and I was just amazed by how fast the technology progresses. Oh yeah, that book was written late 2002.
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Garion81 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2004 Location: So Cal, USA Status: Offline Points: 4338	Posted: January 18 2005 at 19:39
	OK think about it. The minute a computer company or device company releases its "new" product they probably have already started R&D of the next one 6 months prior. By the time the reviewer or book writer gets it and has time to work with it and publish another 3-4 months have passed or so. So now the company has 10 months research invested and probably in the next 4 months it will be out. In the meantime the clone companies have already started mass producing the "new" thing released a couple months prior and are flooding the market with their product driving the price down even lower. It is pretty head spinning.
	"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?"

James Lee Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 05 2004 Status: Offline Points: 3525	Posted: January 18 2005 at 20:24
	on my first (windows) PC, I had to record everything in 16-bit, 22khz mono to make sure it would fit on the hard drive. Plus I could make a sandwich while it was writing to disk.


Hangedman Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: November 03 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 1261	Posted: January 18 2005 at 23:11
	My dad has since the 80's used an atari computer for all of his recording work in his studio(with all sorts of sound boards of course, and some unique programming that he did himself and i dont know how in the world he did it seeing as hes completely computer illeterate) and it works perfectly, its performance is to feeble to even be measured kilobytes i think. But a few years ago he tried to upgrade to a pentium, and after about a month he gave it to me because it "sucked" and he went back to his atari. Basically if it works it doesnt matter if its powerfull enough, it all has to do with how the data is stored.

sigod Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 17 2004 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 2779	Posted: January 19 2005 at 07:18
	It really comes down to what you really need. That often differs to what you want by a large degree. I had no real complaints with my PIII, even though it was fairly primitive by today's standards, I knew it inside out and could work really fast. Getting results is everything. I tend to upgrade the computer in my studio every three years. The most recent upgrade was down to a Win 98/XP migration which my PIII couldn't realy handle. My father however has to be seen to be believed with computers. He actually moves the mouse like a toy car and tries to 'turn courners' with it, when he wants to move the mouse left or right. Bless him.
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