which is better for music production and why Im yet to find anything suggesting the mac's better but thats what everyone tells me is it worth buying a mac instead of a pc??

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Mac is supposed to have better quality in sound and such...

if i had money i would have bought a mac.. not only production wise, but for graphics...... but the graphic part probably isn't any intressting in here.. soooooo.. hehe

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Mac's are apparently better, and newer versions of Logic only support Mac. Pro Tools is also native to mac I believe. I'm a PC guy though so I'd only ever buy a mac if I got reaaaal serious about production.

Get what you are used to. The claim that Macs have better sound quality is totally wrong. In the old days it was so (like more then 10 years ago) because Macs had decent sound cards and most PCs came with shitty ones. These days you can get the exact same sound card for both.

You should choose the platform for its applications. Many applications (especially in the audio and video space) are made for both. That said there are a few apps that are only on one platform. Also you can think of the OS as another application, personally I prefer OS X over XP but I have an iBook as well as a PC desktop.

Don't let cost be too much of a factor. Admitedly Apple desktops are a little more money than a comparable PC (please don't just compare MHz) but Apple notebooks are very evenly priced with PC notebooks. When it comes to buying Apple hardware, checkout www.dealsontheweb.com.

If you have used PCs for a long time and consider yourself pretty PC saavy then get another PC. If you are not particuarly attached to windows or are willing to learn a new OS than I would say get a Mac but not because of some false claim of better sound.

PS - I personally hate the mice that Macs come with these days, go out a buy a USB 2 or 3 button scroll mouse and you will be good to go.

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Just a little anecdotal evidence I think I should share....

In my college, the student center has about 40 Imacs and 4 PC's with Win XP. You can walk up and down the rows, and find several macs in a row sitting there, frozen or crashed. And the PC's are always working fine.

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Originally posted by The Keeper Just a little anecdotal evidence I think I should share.... In my college, the student center has about 40 Imacs and 4 PC's with Win XP. You can walk up and down the rows, and find several macs in a row sitting there, frozen or crashed. And the PC's are always working fine.

Well statistically speaking if some of the computers are fucked up, it is ten times more likly to be a Mac in your little example. If they really are crashing (the OS, not some lame program) than they are probably running an old shitty os, aka OS 9, or maybe the new Panther is not happy on them (but 10.3 is way better than OS 9, hell Win2K and XP are better than OS 9). When I bought a computer for college in 2000, it was before Apple came out with OS X and when MacOS 9 is compared to Win2K, windows wins hands down.

Anyway, the main point is that OS 10.2 and 10.3 are very stable OSes (10.2 more than 10.3, sort of like comparing Win2K to XP).

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What the fuck is this? First you post a cubase vs. logic thread, then you post this? I mean honestly, you expect a deciding answer from each of these threads? You are opening two giant ass worn out cans of worms...

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Vary rare do free plugs support mac, and there isnt even a z3ta for the mac and i hate mac and I use one and............

If you decide to get a pc take a look at Carillon, www.carillondirect.com think i'm gonna get one as i've heard good reviews from everyone. Tom

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Originally posted by Vert What the fuck is this? First you post a cubase vs. logic thread, then you post this? I mean honestly, you expect a deciding answer from each of these threads? You are opening two giant ass worn out cans of worms... es

then u do a search and see what u come up with

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Honestly, comparing Logic, DP, Cubase, and Sonar now is a moot point - they are all more or less equal (although SX 2.0 is buggy). It comes down to platform - mac or pc. Don't forget that Macs come pre-assembled, not much you can do beyond the basic upgrades and options. Not so for the pc - you can get a P4, athlon XP, Athlon 64, Celeron... plus the million combinations of hard drives, optical drives, memory, video cards... sometimes the options are too many.

You can get the same exact soundcards for either - most are cross-platform and include drivers for both.

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Originally posted by The Keeper Just a little anecdotal evidence I think I should share.... In my college, the student center has about 40 Imacs and 4 PC's with Win XP. You can walk up and down the rows, and find several macs in a row sitting there, frozen or crashed. And the PC's are always working fine.

Yup i've seen that happen. they just freeze and do nothing, and they are so hard to navigate around as well. They are also very expensive