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is it worth spending 2700 for a mac when your just starting out? (pg. 4)
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| Mr.Mystery |
| Woohoo, yet another neverending Mac vs. PC debate. |
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| DEAD_MOOSE |
it. Chuck a million at this new hobby of yours. It wont make a blind bit of difference. The Age Of Love was probably produced using an Atari ST and a few hundred quids worth of second hand hardware samplers. Bruno and co probably just said one day "we are gonna make the first true trance record, to determine from here on in how trance will be judged. Lets go and get a computer". Midway - Amazon release 2003/4 and probably produced using 500meg of ram and a pentium 3. Same scenario.
Even with 10,000 times more processing and memory availability you wont make tracks as good as these.
Go get a dust bin and hit it with a wooden spoon. It'll be less wasted money in the long run. |
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| hexadecimal |
It's an idiotic thing to argue about. Both have their own sets of major flaws, and neither is really "better" than the other anymore. Just different.
To the guy asking about OSX and multi-processor machines:
I'd wait a while before dumping money into a 12 core machine. I have an 8-core 2.8GHz "early 2008" model, and I rarely notice much difference between it and my Macbook Pro for common tasks. I haven't upgraded to Logic 9 yet, so I can't comment on the new update that I think I heard was supposed to improve Logic's utilization of multiple processors.
The only time I really see the processing power being taken advantage of, is when I'm running VMWare ESXi... which kind of defeats the purpose of buying a 12-core Apple machine instead of something better suited to that task. I'm fine with it, since I actually do have a use for that capability, but for most users buying Apple machines, it's obviously not really a selling point.
I'd also avoid making yourself an early adopter of anything with the Apple name on it, based on my own experiences over the past 10 years or so. This has only become worse since Apple started experiencing the exponential growth of it's user and product base again. |
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| palm |
| just buy one and find out yourself. if u dont like it then install windows on it instead. nothing lost. |
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| echosystm |
The stability of OSX is hugely over-exaggerated. I unboxed a new 28" iMac at work this week and the control panel froze the first time I opened it. Similarly, I find it runs slow as by the end of the day and I usually have to reboot around lunch time, just so things don't regress to a crawl. Problems like this just never happen to me in Windows.
I actually quite liked Macs, until I had to use one on a daily basis. I think most Mac fanboys backward rationalise their superiority, simply due to the monetary commitment they have made. Unlike every other Mac user in this thread, I am free of this bias because I have never paid for any of the Macs I use. Work have paid for them, because my boss is an Apple fanboy and won't allow anything else. Given a choice, I would have got a Dell. |
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| Subtle |
| quote: | Originally posted by DEAD_MOOSE
Even with 10,000 times more processing and memory availability you wont make tracks as good as these.
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It prolly wont hurt either, in the end the limit is in your imagination. They couldnt do back in the days what we can do now anyways. Its just that nowadays everyone is taking shortcuts, by using the same synths, samples and presets. |
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| Storyteller |
| quote: | | Its just that nowadays everyone is taking shortcuts, by using the same synths, samples and presets. |
That's just because there are too many 'producers' ;) |
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| Subtle |
| quote: | Originally posted by Storyteller
That's just because there are too many 'producers' ;) |
That too, i wont complain about it though.. since i am one of them, but i wouldnt mind less competition thats for sure. :) |
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| palm |
| whats there to compete about anyway? the chicks? |
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| Fledz |
| Chicks like DJs. Nobody gives a about just producers. |
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| johncannons1 |
yes get the mac.
i did and never looked back.
it was my first mac and i used PC's ALOT every day of my life up untill 2 years ago. . .
made the switch.
and i love it!
:) |
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| Stef |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nightshift
its unavailibe apparently, but it was 599$ |
Yeah and it has a PoS processor. |
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