At 8:25 PM -0700 2005.06.01, Orren Merton wrote: >On Jun 1, 2005, at 7:21 PM,Glenn Gutierrez <yahooo@...> >wrote: > > It's pretty cool. Street price is around US$1200 on the Netshell >> APA32, with supposedly "70% of the processing power of a dual 2gHz >> G5." > >For $1200...wow...I think I'd rather buy the $300 Dell, and run >Wormhole to get plug-ins running via ethernet. Hell, you could buy the >Dell, Waves Gold Bundle Native, and STILL save money! And you'd get a >hell of a lot more value out of the PC than that proprietary box. I guess I'll have to look into Wormhole. :) Heck, having a slightly better $500 PC around for testing and games wouldn't be a bad side effect either. It is cool, however, to see yet another cross-platform multi-DAW DSP "helper" on the market. Maybe this will be the first of many? >Or why not buy an iMac for just a little more? Can't you use the MIDI >networking and Networking AU plug-ins in Tiger to do the same thing? >And of course Logic Nodes. To actually concur, I am buying a new iMac this week to act as admin machine by day and Logic node by night (to my dual 2.7 G5, if it ever becomes necessary). That shows my real-life priorities. I'll report back.. Glenn