I used to roll 24bit 44.1khz. 20 channels for a couple of hours without choking on a TiBook 800mhz g4 with a gig of ram. To external and internal hard drives.
thx, i guess that's were i was trying to skip to when i said horsepower originally. a bottleneck is definately going to be getting the data out to the drives (also why i said driveS)
i somehow manage to run my traveler pretty well on a windows base, but i also don't care about recording above 44 unless it's going to video
the motu's definately seem to like macs better.
I will have a ton of horse power. I am a computer science major, and I am in the research field of multi-threaded, multi-core software development.
My new system will either have a 3ghz quad core processor, or two 3ghz quad core processors (8 cores total). I will also be putting in a MINIMUM of 2gigs of ram.
My CURRENT system:
Athlon FX-55 2.7gHz (overclocked)
2 gigs of Corsair ram
2 200gb harddrives running in raid 0 (this means both drives work together to processes something, which decreases the amount of time it takes to read and write to harddrive (aka they are faster)