now that im drunk i see that i was wrong the whole way... he wasnt looking for a mac at all, wtf was i thinking? he was looking for separate parts....
i recommend the OP to buy a DIY computer from various websites, and download win xp from torrents so he can understand the true power of PC/Win. get the most expensive quad core (no music apps use 4 cores yet though), 8gb ram (only 3,2 works in xp though), a 10k rpm HD (wont work on the motherboard ur getting though), and 500w cabinet (500w aint enough for the quadcores+ram+10k rpm HD, and whatever graphic-card your getting though). Be ready to experience noise (from fans, HD, and grounding-issues), bluescreen of deaths, complete cable-mess, and dust-collection uve never ever seen before. Good luck, theres only one way to learn, and its to fail (like u all know, ive been doing alot hahaha).

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Originally posted by DJ RANN apart from.. I just had to format a PC laptop from XP to XP pro. It took 4 hours and I know exactly what I'm doing and and did it efficiently. This was mainly waiting for XP to install, updates to install and the drivers to install. I did not back up the hard drive either. I then had to format my imac. Took less than an hour with two drives to backup. My mac takes approximately one quarter of the amount of maintenance my PC did, and now I just don't think about computer maintenance. I just format it every two years.

these were the reasons I stated i prefer mac. I had hardrive failure and reinstalling things was so incredibly easy. Just drag the applications from the backup along with the preferences.

I have only seen pcs used in 2 studios and they both had computer techs to maintain them.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN apart from.. I just had to format a PC laptop from XP to XP pro. It took 4 hours and I know exactly what I'm doing

What made it take 4 hours?

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Reading all this BS though, no one has come up with a good reason why one is better than the other....

Macs specs make me cringe. You put down 1200 for a mac and you get a 320 gig hd? Sounds really overpriced to me.

If Logic was on both PC and Mac, would most people bother switching to a mac?

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Reading all this BS though, no one has come up with a good reason why one is better than the other....

i'd say not having proper home/end/delete are pretty massive reasons why macbooks are terrible... i can't live without those keys and most people in my line of work are the same. work gave me a brand new macbook pro for free (my non-technical boss has a mac fetish, it's ridiculous), but the keyboard slowed me down and i ended up buying my own pc laptop. the security problems are also a big issue for me.

the keyboard thing is a total deal breaker for me. if that was changed, i would probably have no complaints about using a mac. this is why i said desktop macs aren't bad, just macbooks. but seriously, how can they omit keys from a keyboard? it's completely moronic.

i do the majority of my work on freebsd at the moment. it's nice, but i do miss microsoft office (open office is terrible). the idealistic freetard beliefs of the *nix community give me the shits too. the thing i like about osx is that it is reasonably posix compliant, but you can still get microsoft office, etc. i would never buy a mac pro, because they are just too expensive. likewise, i would never buy a macbook for the reasons above. my next pc upgrade may entail me investigating those efix modules, so i can run a fully legit copy of osx on a pc, complete with home, end and delete.

fyi, incase you mac fags haven't realised, the only reason i'm trolling you so hard is because you're being elitist/ignorant morons and you're asking for it. i actually like osx, turning a blind eye to all the security problems.

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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox I've never had a problem with FLs tech support till this day. (I've actually never used it till this day)

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Originally posted by floyd741 i think echosystm is a pretty cool guy. eh pwns robby rox and doesn't afraid of anything.

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Originally posted by echosystm fyi, incase you mac fags haven't realised, the only reason i'm trolling you so hard is because you're being elitist/ignorant morons and you're asking for it. i actually like osx, turning a blind eye to all the security problems.

you are one disrespectful twit.

I"ve used pcs since I was 8. I started using cubase 5 on pc all the way up to sx 4. Unlike you, who only dabbled for a bit on someone else's macbook and then makes a blanket statement about all macs. Have you owned a mac pro desktop ? Or have you just the student macbook on loan to everyone ?

The final sell for me was that OSX is the only solution for using large sample libraries (16 gigs) and being stable. VIsta was a mess, windows 7 needs more time and perhaps unlike most professionals , you don't have to worry about having your system crash when you have a deadline the next day. .

you are acting like a little child and it is pathetic.

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Originally posted by RichieV you are acting like a little child

NO YOU ARE

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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox I've never had a problem with FLs tech support till this day. (I've actually never used it till this day)

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Originally posted by floyd741 i think echosystm is a pretty cool guy. eh pwns robby rox and doesn't afraid of anything.

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Originally posted by echosystm my next pc upgrade may entail me investigating those efix modules, so i can run a fully legit copy of osx on a pc, complete with home, end and delete.

That's what i'm saying! I built mine before the chip what a hassle that was for me and my buddy we're pretty techy but we were out of our league. I'm just running Xp right now my hack refuses to boot - it lasted about a year and a half with no issues. OSX is a clean operating system, it feels a bit childish but it works.

The efix chip is my top priority at the moment for the sole purpose of running logic, which I miss terribly...

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Originally posted by echosystm NO YOU ARE

you spend 6 pages bashing macs then state you like osx and only decide to troll to piss people off. That is either childish or retarded, you pick.

You mention that you use bsd on a thread about DAWS. This isn't about suggestion a DAW, this is about ugly retarded computer nerds having to validate themselves by expressing their uniqueness with an os nobody uses or supports. You then make a retarded reference to microsoft word. Do you actually make music ? You also place all your hope to run logic on a company that will be sued before they make any actual sales. You bash mac, then say osx i great and that you want to run it. Your only criticism of mac is the laptops missing 2 keys which apparently disrupts your work which i'm certain isn't music related. Get a fucking 10$ keyboard you dumb arrogant fuckface.

make up your fucking mind you giant douche.

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Nobody uses XP and its not supported? Come again?

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Originally posted by Fledz Nobody uses XP and its not supported? Come again?

he uses bsd. I think he forgot this thread was about computers for music.