[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

Originally posted by Yorick: quote: Originally posted by Ziroc: Add to the Strip "Mac's...who wants to attack a computer that there are only 8 pieces of software for it!" [img]smile.gif[/img]

Eh? What are you talking about?

Just in my field there is:

Digidesign's Protools
Steinberg's Cubase and Nuendo
Logic Audio
Garageband
Soundtrack
Digital Performer/MOTU
Ableton Live
Peak
Propellerhead's Reason, Rebirth, Recycle etc

These are the topdraw audio programs around. Within each there are myriad "instruments" (Battery 3, gigasampler, Trilogy, Stylus and Atmosphere, idrum, etc. etc.) as wll as processors such as waves and UAD or apogee... All for the mac. I mean the list goes on and on, and I have things to do

There is no better option if you're recording music. As said, of the hundreds of people I've worked with in New York City alone, I've encountered ONE who works on PC. The abundance of software choices and support, workflow, compatability issues,(mac's can use PC files, but PCs can't use mac files, so you get stuck if you're PC) etc I mean I would seriously recommend anyone getting into music production to go with mac all the way.

Mac's are like a pretty Lamborghini car shell. But the insides is a Ford. It does a few neat things with photos, but cannot match a PC in speed, nor software. (And can't handle 1gig PSD Photoshop files well.)

Wrong wrong wrong all the way. Mate I use both PC and Mac, and the Mac has much lower latency, (no use playing in a virtul instrument if it's out of time) and can be stacked full of plugins and tracks far more than the PC. It's a smooth running, crashless beast of a machine.

And what's with the photoshop comment?

All my artwork is done on photoshop. Photoshop on the mac kicks butt.

So does video editting. Again, video editting on the mac kicks butt.

And as for the bundled software you get on a new mac... c'mon man, you just cannot say Mac's have no programs. That's simply laughable. I have all I need. Any more options and I'd have a permanetly rotating neck.

The hardware is WAY overpriced--laughably so--like $4000 for a mac that will do and have the power my $1800 rig cost.

Rubbish. $2500 would get you a kick-arse Mac that handles audio like a dream.
Mate, I just did the specs and comparisons. Went out and got a new Mac.

Reason mac's don't get virii is cause they attack what people use the most.. But that is changing. Loads of virii are hitting mac's new OS.

Mac put out security updates regularly and this is the reason why I've NEVER had a virus in my five years working macs. Macs all have the same setups, whereas PCs are varied. Does Dell sendout virus protection every time a new one is discovered? Does HP? C'mon.

I do think since they are using Intel, and becoming compatible, it's a good thing. I can do everything a mac does with Photoshop, Elements, 3DS Max, and Premiere.

No you can't do everything a mac does. You can't run mac softare on your pc, yet the mac can run pc software. So any program you run, I can run, but you can't run all the mac stuff.

Final Cut pro, Logic, Aperture, Garageband. Great programs. Garageband is free with each new mac.

I didn't buy a PC specifically because it COULD NOT do all the things I wanted to do.

Don't get me wrong, they are nice. I *Started* out on a Commodore 64, and had an Amiga (A god system at the time, with the best graphics--before CGA and EGA, yet looked GREAT!)

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[ 12-08-2006, 02:55 PM: Message edited by: Variol (Farseer) Elmwood ]