Cakehole, I want to help you before you get blasted. You are on the sonic foundry, microsoft butt kissing forum. Mac isn't even on the possibility list.
As far as a system I use an AMD 1.33(266), 512m Micron SDR RAM, Asus A7V133 MB (don't let them sucker you into DDR for speed, though it might be a good idea as far as future upgrades are concerned),Geforce 2, Echo Layla, 3com 905c nic card, ADSL (for the occasional driver and Unreal Tournament), and a Creative 8x cupholder. BTW if you do AMD buy stock in a fan company 8P. And last but not least the spawn of the great satan, Windows ME, more stable than 98se, no partition silliness, faster and less bootage.

Thanks, but I do know where I am, If you look at my history of Posts
to this Forum. What I don't know is what was I thinking, although I do
have Clients who emulate SFoundry software on there Macs. I know the
users and loosers of this Forum and I dont worry about "Getting Blasted"
for a Post like that, although I would be dissapointed if I didnt get a
good Ribbing from a few of the steadies!! Thanks for your words.
Back to the grind.(I am off to see if Rednroll's Pinto is still for sale)
see ya
Dave

Hi guys,

You know our (us sofo employees) policy of not offering hardware recommendations, but we always encourage you to offer your preferences in these forums. It is good to hear about success stories, and of course, the not so successful stories. I just want to let you know that Vegas supports dual monitor/dual processor systems, works great under both AMD and Intel procs, loves power and speed. Before you go out and spend your hard earned money on a system, send us a configuration you have in mind and we'll look it over for you and tell you if we see any pitfalls.

I also wanted to point out this informational link for your convenience. It will tell you about people we work with: http://www.sonicfoundry.com/support/default.asp?pageid=105

Thanks to everyone who replied. I guess what I really want to know is... What is the best way to get multiple inputs in to my system so I can record vocals on one track and live instruments on others at the same time? I've heard alot about firewire, usb mixers, etc... what works well with vegas? Thanks Again.

Aaron,
I'm using a M-Audio Delta 1010, which has 8 analog in's and out's. You can run multiple-1010's for additional in's and out's. Besides that, here's my system:

Dual P3 1 gig
ABIT VP6 M.B.
768 megs PC133 SDRAM
18 gig Western Digital 7200 rpm system H.D.
60 gig ATA-100 RAID 0 (2 - 30 gig Western Digital 7200 rpm H.D.'s)
18 gig U160 IBM H.D. on an Adaptec 29160 SCSI Controller
Pyro DV firewire card
Windows 2000 with SP2

So far, it's been working smooth. I've had 24 tracks of 24/96 audio without a problem.

Things I've learned: RAM is cheap. You can't have too much. Get the fastest your M.B. will take, and put plenty in. Stay away from USB. It's been nothing but trouble for me. I've personally had no luck with Athlon Processors. I've tried a couple ASUS M.B.'s with Athlon i gig CPU's, and it was an endless nightmare. Others have probably had great success with them...but I just couldn't get anything to work reliably. Seek out and correct all IRQ conflicts if you can. They are bad news with audio hardware. Look for display adapter that doesn't tax your system. I've got an ATI Rage, and I haven't had any trouble. I've been using NTFS on all my drives with success, but I'm rethinking that for when I move to Windows XP. The jury still seems to be out on NTFS. If you build your own PC, keep the cabling clean. Tie wrap everything nice and neatly as far from the CPU as you can. Nothing worse than wiring getting caught in the CPU fan.

Hope that helps!

jp

Vegas Video doesn't run any faster on a dual processor. SF has said that in other posts and I have tested that with others in other forums. Vegas Video renders slow and only uses ONE processor. Get a fast single processor and lot's or RAM that will help more than wasting money on a second proceessor that Vegas Video doesn't even know what to do with.

At the present time USB will only do 2 in and 2 out at the same time I believe. So it's a PCI card or firewire if you want more than that. I am using a 1.33 gig Atlon with absolutely no problems, just be sure to keep the VIA drivers current ( that is generally the issue with AMD). Athlon is faster than P4 in most cases at a much better price, so if you know about computers and can't afford a P4 2G get a big athlon and the newest ASUS MB you can get.