|
Buying new laptop, Need help! (pg. 2)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| TrAnCeMaSteR |
| go for the mac, you really won't regret it. I was a die-hard PC fan until I bought a mac so I can use logic...and I haven't looked back since lol. |
|
|
| DJ RANN |
Once you go mac, you don't go back.
Seriously, just pony up and buy the mac. spend as much as you can right now becuase once you're a broke student , you'll not be able to upgrade anytime soon.
My mate bought the best MBP he could afford at the start of his masters and five years later he's now about to complete his PHD - he uses for all his college work, all his internet , as well as his DJ setup (serato), has never done any maintenance on it and it's still going strong to this day.
For my work computer, I'm on a top of the range PC ASUS laptop, only three years old, don't do any audio work on it at all, constant have to maintain it (otherwise it gets sluggish), have reformatted it twice in this period, and I'm about ready to buy a new laptop.
Honestly, get the macbook, max it out with good quality RAM, slap an SSD in there and never worry about performance again (or at least for the next few years).
Oh, and logic is ing superb. |
|
|
| Anakratis |
| My macbook pro just arrived! Thanks guys :) |
|
|
| meriter |
| quote: | Originally posted by Anakratis
My macbook pro just arrived! Thanks guys :) |
Couple things...
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23137/fan-control
I don't know what model you got, but if it has dynamic graphics switching:
http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus
Firefox 4 automatically switches to the discrete graphics so you'll rock through your battery just with light internet browsing. I actually downgraded to FF 3.6 because of that and Flash crashing constantly. |
|
|
| DJ RANN |
That will learn you for using firefox :p sooooo 2007 of you.
seriously, I can't understand why anyone would use anything other than Chrome.
Congrats Anakratis! you'll have a lot of fun with that..... |
|
|
| Storyteller |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
Once you go mac, you don't go back.
Seriously, just pony up and buy the mac. spend as much as you can right now becuase once you're a broke student , you'll not be able to upgrade anytime soon.
My mate bought the best MBP he could afford at the start of his masters and five years later he's now about to complete his PHD - he uses for all his college work, all his internet , as well as his DJ setup (serato), has never done any maintenance on it and it's still going strong to this day.
For my work computer, I'm on a top of the range PC ASUS laptop, only three years old, don't do any audio work on it at all, constant have to maintain it (otherwise it gets sluggish), have reformatted it twice in this period, and I'm about ready to buy a new laptop.
Honestly, get the macbook, max it out with good quality RAM, slap an SSD in there and never worry about performance again (or at least for the next few years).
Oh, and logic is ing superb. |
I'm on the crappiest 10' netbook and it still runs like i'd expect it to with little to no mainanance, after 3 yrs! :D |
|
|
| meriter |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
seriously, I can't understand why anyone would use anything other than Chrome.
|
Adblock |
|
|
| Storyteller |
| quote: | Originally posted by Anakratis
My macbook pro just arrived! Thanks guys :) |
\
I just ordered the Lenovo hahaha. Can't wait to get my hands on it. Will be nice to have on the road. The 10" I have now is just a tad too small and I hope 12" will be perfect. 15" gets too heavy and big.
Could only get it from the US. Only the top end models can rarely be found in Europe. All in all with tax and shipping it costs just as much in euros as it did in dollars before. Oh well. Countdown has begun. |
|
|
| Fledz |
Ah, the good old "Get a MAC bro, it's ing siiiiiiiiiiiick" brigade. If you don't specifically want to use Logic or don't want to use their OS, then go with the Win laptop. Better specs, cheaper, and Win7 s on Lion or whatever the hell the new one is called.
Either way they will both be decent, but decide on OS primarily.
I've had Dells (and still do) though the XPS which are built more solid than their starter ones.
Re: the Lenovos, I use an older touchpad model for work. Really solid machines and I know their higher end models get good reviews.
Also lol at the "get a Mac to get laid" bull. You either know how to get laid or you don't. You don't go into a ing coffee shop with a Mac and wait for the magic to happen you spastic :stongue: |
|
|
| Storyteller |
You obviously never owned one! :tongue2
I've read an independent test recently and the test concluded that both perform just about equally on virtually anything - theres a few things either of them do better but it's hardly a relevant difference. The only thing that actually makes a difference is the user experience, which is subjective and differs for everyone. |
|
|
| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by meriter
Adblock |
Available for Chrome. Seriously, there's not good reason not to switch. Chrome FTW.
| quote: | Originally posted by Fledz
Ah, the good old "Get a MAC bro, it's ing siiiiiiiiiiiick" brigade. If you don't specifically want to use Logic or don't want to use their OS, then go with the Win laptop. Better specs, cheaper, and Win7 s on Lion or whatever the hell the new one is called.
Either way they will both be decent, but decide on OS primarily.
I've had Dells (and still do) though the XPS which are built more solid than their starter ones.
Re: the Lenovos, I use an older touchpad model for work. Really solid machines and I know their higher end models get good reviews.
Also lol at the "get a Mac to get laid" bull. You either know how to get laid or you don't. You don't go into a ing coffee shop with a Mac and wait for the magic to happen you spastic
|
no one is doing the mac fanboy thing in this thread. If anything, you're doing the PC fanboy bull as we've long proved there the price and spec argument is invalid, when you compare organes to oranges.
Dell are a ing joke XPS are the punchline. I specced a bunch of dells (30 or varying spec) for a school music department install I did. The PC's lasted less than 2.5 years before 60% of them had major malfunction (hardware issues) and the teacher got a top spec XPS for himself. Battery life was criminal, it weighed a ing ton, and about 30% of the cost is just for crap like LED lit fans and gay gamer style designs.
Storyteller is absolutely right - there is basically no difference and what difference there is depnds on the user.
For instance, for me, I've built computers from age 8 and probably personally owned close to 25 computers many of which I built myself. I have been a sound engineer for over a decade. I have very little time so what I want is to be able to sit in front of a computer and within seconds being producing music with no hiccups and lots of CPU power. I'm so over tweaking systems for performance and maintenance it;s not even funny, and I certainly don;t need to prove my PC skills anymore to myself. I think many producers are in the same boat and if not they should think about producing more an tinkering less.
I'm not tight but I'm also not made of money so my imac fits me perfectly - 3 years old now, kicked the out of it, used it for ever possible thing you could imagine, and still does not flinch when i get in to it with Logic.
You may have a completely different criteria but but honestly, ever producer I've ever known to get a mac, suddenly seems to have a change of priority that means they don;t go PC again. |
|
|
| evo8 |
if youve got the cash get the macbook pro - i use one just for surfing and the odd bit of traktor, you pay a bit extra but i couldnt buy a PC laptop again - even the trackpad alone is just so good
Still my main DAW is windows 7 64 bit - flawless also |
|
|
|
|
