Please help me buy a new computer

Over the last few weeks, my laptop has been dying a very painful death. It started with the CD drive, then some keys started sticking, and now I turn it on to hear a horrible buzzing noise, making it useless for any sort of Audio work. It's beyond my own repair skill and it's so old it's not worth getting fixed.

I have sampled the sound of my fan, and written a little tune using it, venting my frustration and showing how bad it is.

It's an ACER single core 2gHz processor with a gig of ram and an 80 gig hard drive, and is my only computer for everything I do.

She has done me very well over the last 2 years, has had drinks spilled on her, been in deserts, monsoons, around the world a couple of times, even stolen by a crackhead and retrieved, but now she is dying, and dying hard.

Having to purchase a new laptop is outside of my budget right now as I am focusing on getting myself out of the debt I got into due to various money troubles during my travels over the last year, so, once again I am stretching out to the people I have given something to, to ask for some collective funds to help me get a new machine.

I've set my sights on a white 13 inch Macbook, it's the cheapest of the lot, but that's ok because I don't need a super computer at this stage, maybee one day when I'm rich, but not right now.

Each person who contributes/supports/sponsors (whatever you like to call it) get's their name imprinted on the back (in vinyl) in a tag cloud fashion, with the size of their name depending on how much they choose to donate, so everywhere I go and play and teach, I'll take a little part of you with me (awwwww).

There are chunks ranging from 10 to 100 dollars, totalling up to 1000us dollars (the mac I want is 1,649.00 AUD = 1,077.75 USD)

Each donation really helps, and will ensure I keep powering on performing, teaching and creating packs/tutorials for the masses without being held back. I have a lot of energy to put into my project but I can only go as fast as my tools permit me.

Each donor will get a link to the Ableton live file of this tune, so they can open it up and see how it's made (only external VST used is the freeware Minimogue and all samples are included, so anyone with live can grab this and have a look).

You can contribute my visiting http://www.cosm.co.nz/help

Thankyou!

-Tom

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[lidltomat]

hey douche,youre asking people to give you money so you can buy a 1000$ computer,if i would be you i would go and buy a preowned 300$ computer for my own money

[cosmcosm]

Hey thanks for the message. I managed to raise well over a thousand dollars in 24 hours, more than enough to get a new mac specked to the max.

Thanks for your suggestion on the cheaper computer, but I would rather have the best.

Thanks again to all those who contributed.

-Tom

[sickliberty]

yeah, that's straight... mac OS's are just built a lot lighter without all the legacy crap that windows tends to hang on to while cluttering it all up. I love the hell out of XP, but I had to go Win7 on this one since there's hardly any support for the 64-bit XP. & since I want to run 12gb's of ram, I need a 64-bit system. BTW, macs are not as stable as people say... screen froze while trying to upgrade my roomate's macbook to snow leopard. his HD failed & all files were lost.

[BTIshimura]

grats on the new cpu.

[QUIX4U]

@Gammaaaa Oops.. This old DAD got that wrong - (bad guess) Ok .. I'll start again... @Gammaaaa TOM_COSM will tell you (when he gets back to NZ) Just the as same any "kiwi" whom loves music will also say, Just "come" here - to New Zealand's [ w w w . c o s m . c o . n z ] (remember to remove the spaces) And that would be "A MOST EXCELLENT PLACE" To listen actually .. Gosh Even "Bill & Ted" would agree [with their own quote] That - "that"- would be "A MOST EXCELLENT IDEA ("too")

[QUIX4U]

@HeeroYuy424 Oh .. and when U want to shipp out to me...

MY" FREE GIFT .. just google for me .. MY address for receiving FREE gifts - is everywhere...

(Just "LIKE" me & my Comments... Funny_That)

[QUIX4U]

Oh & Hi TOM ..

Plus - if @iluvtrance69 actually GOT his hand off that OTHER wee tool he keeps playing with - he wouldn't be so BLIND - as to see - that TOM - is @cosmcosm .. and NOT @iluvtrance69

And TOM - sure as HELL - is NOT my name

(Although? I did have a great uncle Tom - whom died in the Hyde to Rock & Pillar fatal Railway accident -"Oh - away back in the twenties last century.. BUT NO - my name .. is NOT tom.

[QUIX4U]

@iluvtrance69 The next TIME that U look at the "paint" program in Ur computor: GO check the Michealangelo "palet" &see just how many different "shades" of colours

U can obtain- from just RGB

& look

OMG

Thats exactly the SAME LED's they use- in Ur HIGHEST resolution

Computor Monitors etc

Those are all the 64.77 million COLOURS

That U can get from TV screens 2

I just make analogue mega multi ch analogue surround sound deplexer decoders

And that (in a nutshell) is HOW I play with music

[QUIX4U]

@iluvtrance69 Me I never DID give a toss about "learning" inner workings of PLC's computors, or electronic gadgets I work with WIRE and HEAVY electrical currents I work with stuff- That I can (oops used to be able to) see without glasses And it's NOT 65 BILLION Just 64.77 MILLION Ur a tad out in Ur calcs there AUDIO- In the electromagnetic spectrum Has exactly the same properties as 3phase Electricity & 7 colour aspect WHITE LIGHT Any silly fool working with electrics knows THAT