vinyl to CD using Mac?

[Jim Shearer]

It's time to get a new computer--my nasty old PC (running Win 98SE) has to go.:p
My daughter and brother are both recommending I buy an Apple Mac (NOT Mac mini.) I am in the middle of a long term project transferring old vinyl and tape to CDs. I see that there is a program called Toast 8 from Roxio that claims to have tools for doing vinyl to CD, but I am wondering:

1) Is the sound card in the Mac adequate to the task?
2) Is Toast 8 suitable for the job?

Thanks for your help!

Cheers, Jim

[Refefer]

I'm not at all familiar with Toast 8, but as for the soundcard, you can certainly grab a USB/Firewire M-Audio soundcard for the mac that will be much better sonically from the mac's built-in soundcard.

Honestly, Toast 8 probably does the trick fine. Just make sure you stay away from any sort of dynamic compression and you should be good.

[Jim Shearer]

Thanks. I'm feeling better & better about going w/ the Mac.

Cheers, Jim