Have you ever worked on your computers yourself? After my vacation in Nashville, I tried to install protools and the mbox2 on my HP M7790e Media Center system. It is a 4-month-old AMD x2 5000+ with 2GB ram, and should easily support protools. Well, I ran into two problems right away. HP designed the usb setup in such a way that there is not enough usb bandwidth to support the mbox2, and I don’t have an available slot to install another usb card 
. Then, protools itself (7.4) won’t run on vista ultimate without an internal error.
I was able to install everything on a very old laptop for recording, but it is less than ideal.
I am in the process of transforming my media center pc into a dual boot xp/vista box and will see what happens with protools and the mbox under xp.
The part about the zone is that I have spent since Thanksgiving working on this in my spare time. PC’s are great, but they can suck the time right out of the clock if you let them.
What is it that you are saying? I should buy a Mac? The voices are starting to make sense . Perhaps a mac is in my future.
Have fun!
-Ed
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