PCAudioLabs Intros New Windows Audio Workstations
Sep 24th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Computer Hardware, Podcasting Hardware 
PCAudioLabs has introduced two new digital audio PCs, Solar and Lunar, to their Create product line.
Both systems come equipped with dual hard drives, dual video outputs, 8 USB ports, 2 Texas Instruments FireWire ports and 2 Gigabytes of RAM. The systems are “optimized and tweaked” for demanding audio production.
Features:
- Intel Core2 Duo 1.8GHz
- 2GB DDR2-667 RAM
- 80GB SATAII Hard Drive
- 320GB SATAII Hard Drive
- Onboard Dual VGA + DVI
- 18x DVD +/- RW Drive
- Quiet Operation
Solar and Lunar are available now starting at $1099.
How telling is it that this machine comes installed with Microsoft Windows XP on it (8 months after Windows Vista was released)?
(that’s rhetorical)
Its certainly not the fault of Microsoft. Hardware and software manufacturers in the recording industry tend to ride on the sales of their current products rather than spend the money on the resources to re-write their apps ands drivers to be compatible. Some simply don’t have the time, being that they are small companies and they are faced with supporting 3 operating systems now (XP, Vista 32, and Vista 64). Windows Vista rocks, but not too many apps are compatible yet, making it obviously a bad choice for musicians and producers.