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Im getting a laptop very soon and i could do with some good advice on what to get. i have heard that mac's are supposed to be loads better, but i dont know why, The pc laptop im concidering has a 2gig processor, 512ram, 15"screen, 40gig HD, dvd/cd burner + windows xp pro. it comes to about £1500, after i get my sound card and midi interface the figure will be about £2000. so i do have some money to play with, i need to know just what it is about mac's that makes people choose them over pc's. by the way, i will be using the laptop as my studio |
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ask miss ellen feis! lol well from what ive heard they are supposed to be better for graphics / audio not sure about hardware or anything |
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buy a mac cause it's nifty lookin'! ooh shiny metal look! :D |
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... because they arent |
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If you want a serious tool for designer/photo/video programs buy mac. For the games and the rest buy pc. (GOOOOO BILL!) |
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If you're talking w arez you're better of on PC I guess. |
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macs have very few hacks. That is not to say they are impregnitable, but they are more secure because there are less of them and hence less hacking interest. PS headloc I am in the same situation as you at present. I hav eabout £2000 to spend. Still nto sure what I want..... |
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Computers.. I'm thinking about buying a regular laptop. Nice portable sequencer, nice for home use, and als interesting machine for VJ-ing, I just hook up my midi keyboard and off I go. |
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PowerBooks carry a pretty h they are totally worth it. Oh and don't be fooled that becuase Macs have a much slower MHz rate they are slower. This is wrong. You can only compare MHz speeds with the same processor. And the G3 and G4 are very different to Intel's Pentiums. The fastest PowerBook G4 with 1GHz is faster in almost every task than a PC laptop with 2GHz. And MacOS X is THE best OS ever.(TM) It could still be better, but it's the best out there at the moment. Really fucking stable. |
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PCs are just fine for serious audio tasks. I'd pick one with an AMD processor because the P4 is known to have some trouble with certain softsynths(they're fixing this though) yes, macs are a bit faster than PCs but even when the PC has double the amount of mhz the mac is still more expensive... |
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"And MacOS X is THE best OS ever.(TM)" amen brother. and now they got the audio side of it finalised we're gonna see LOADS more software getting ported from OS9. Plus it's apparrently an absolutely wonderful OS for handling sound. in other words it might not quite be there at the moment but it will be, and it'll be fucking brilliant when it is. OS X may well be the thing which ends this "macs over pcs for audio" argument for good. |
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"macs have very few hacks" that is not true, there is something out there called surfers serials....... do a search for it at google if you want. Or do a tracker search on hotline ... and thats all I got to say about that |
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well, if you are buying this for music only... id go with the MAC. If you want to play games... the mac wont be for you. There just arnt many games made for MAC. MACs are more expensive, but totally worth it. They hardly ever EVER crash (and im still on OS9), and those who I know who have OSX, say theyve never had it crash. Also, with OSX, you eliminate alot of headaches as far as audio/midi routing goes. Its not built in, so no set ups or troubleshooting is required. You plug in something, and wham bam, it does it for you. Plug in a new synth into the midi, wham bam, it routes it, and loads the patch names, automatically. I myself am saving for a powerbook, and it will be used for: 1. Writting Music. It will be the base of my studio. (Im basically all software based) 2. Doing film scores 3. Live electronic Gigs. 4. Private use, internet, mp3s etc (although if i can afford it, i think ill keep my old iMAC for this, so my laptop doesnt get bogged down with mp3s and stuff) |
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*eeer it IS built in, so no setups or trouble shooting is required. |
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just remember... ...i care because you do was done with ReCycle on an old power mac... just imagine what you could do with that new laptop ;D |
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i don't get why you wrire mac in all caps, zeus. it doesn't stand for anything. |
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MACS ARE BETTER BECAUSE THEY HAVE ELLEN FEISS!!!!! PCS SUCK CAUSE WE GOT SOME OLD GUY NAMED BILL GATES!!!!! Who wouldn't turn to Mac? |
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i want a mac |
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so do i anus. so..do i. |
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but the whole mac os is totally backwards to windows, has anyone here started using windows then migrated over to mac ? it might slow me down too much having to learn a new o.s How different is it ? |
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i used windows for like 5 years... then went to mac. it took a bit of getting used to.... but now im fine. it was also wierd goin back to windows when I went home, but now im used to both, and the both feel fine. and i dont know why i say MAC. i dont know. |
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ok...this is a fact...macs are more stable than pcs yes and they are awesome for audio\video\graphics and whatnot however you cant do a fuckin thing on a mac aside from that, the mac os is very limited (as is windows) but on windows you can also do graphics(do a smaller extent) and all that. but pcs are way better for games, playing online and almost anything else you need to do. now i hate bill gates, and have nothing against macs but theres really no point in buying a mac unless you do video\audio. |
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macs have the "x" factor |
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how was 'i care because you do' written composed with recycle? its not a sequencer. |
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you mac owners make me jealous cos' I was keeping money for a laptop but I have to buy a new car first. my old citroen is on the way to the grave... aaargh ! |
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'cos for. |
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ICBYD was done before recycle was released. Recycle is more RDJ album |
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I gotta ask it, what's the x factor? :) |
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