i was going to mention something. then i forgot. oh yeah. Garageband: On the front page of www.apple.com they have hot news headlines: "Garageband is a terrific tool for amateur musicians" - wall street journal and then the review says:
"Also, Steve discovered considerable latency, or delays, between key presses and the actual sound when he tried using an expensive professional synthesizer keyboard as a real instrument. Apple insists this is a characteristic of the keyboard, not of GarageBand.
By far the biggest downside to GarageBand is that it can easily push the capabilities of the Mac to the limit. If you have a lot of tracks, and use lots of customizing effects in the tracks, GarageBand posts scary error messages saying "System Overload" or telling you that your processor or hard disk are too slow to play the song. Both Steve and I got these messages on new PowerBook laptops Apple lent us for the tests, even when we were only playing the sample songs Apple includes with GarageBand.
You can get rid of these messages by changing some system settings, especially on laptops, to turn off power-saving options that slow down the hard disk and processor. GarageBand itself has an obscure setting that will improve performance, at the risk of some slower response time. By tweaking these settings, we were able to use the program without the error messages."
.. not exactly a good advertisement for apple computers in general or this product..