On Thursday, March 03, 2011 04:24:14 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > I think I addressed that reality. Part of it, yes. > For some needs, you need to be on > bare metal, though whether this is accomplished via multi-booting or > multiple systems (if you're doing professional music editing, presumably > you can justify a dedicated system to that task). It's not the computer portion of a separate dedicated system that would be expensive; it's the audio interfaces, patching, and control surfaces. Much much much easier to dual-boot in a workflow-friendly fashion. It would be decidedly nice to have virtualization running well enough to handle all the needs; but it requires twice the capacity machine to do it. > What surprises me is that there aren't more systems available which > provide separate bare-metal computing environments within a single > enclosure, perhaps with some form of shared storage, perhaps just > integrated networking, to provide this sort of need. We see this in > server space (blade and multi-system enclosures) but rarely if ever in > consumer space. I've thought a bit about options; a ClearCube-type setup might work, and used units aren't expensive. Don't know if blades are available with the expansion options needed, though. Need a PCI slot at minimum.