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Just bought a new mac, tell me if you like the specs. (pg. 3)
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| TyeDynamite |
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
are you computer savy ?
Does your job rely on music ?
honestly, just get a pc. They are fine. Just do your homework. |
I'm pretty computer savvy. Not a PC expert though I've had a mac for the past 7 years. And no sadly my job doesn't rely on music at all.
I've been trying to do some research on a good PC and specs but there's just so much out there and the technology is evolving so quick it's kind of difficult to find reviews and tips on the latest stuff out.
I just really don't know what things I should be looking for other than the obvious (processing speed, storage space, RAM). I have an audiobox 22 VSL from presonus that I route my monitors to so I was planning on just using that as an external soundcard. Not sure how important the graphics card will be. I am just using it for music pretty much. A little internet like forums to but that's about it.
Any things you could recommend would be greatly appreciated. |
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| itsamemario |
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
And to answer the lord, it isn't the same screen. It isn't the same dimensions and it is a distraction. The only way it would work would be to have 2 of those and the imac in the centre to offset that inconsistency but since they probablty don't have thunderbolt ports, that isn't a choice. |
yeah or liek sell the mac monitor, buy two of those, pocket the difference. |
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| clay |
| quote: | Originally posted by TyeDynamite
I'm pretty computer savvy. Not a PC expert though I've had a mac for the past 7 years. And no sadly my job doesn't rely on music at all.
I've been trying to do some research on a good PC and specs but there's just so much out there and the technology is evolving so quick it's kind of difficult to find reviews and tips on the latest stuff out.
I just really don't know what things I should be looking for other than the obvious (processing speed, storage space, RAM). I have an audiobox 22 VSL from presonus that I route my monitors to so I was planning on just using that as an external soundcard. Not sure how important the graphics card will be. I am just using it for music pretty much. A little internet like forums to but that's about it.
Any things you could recommend would be greatly appreciated. |
computers are pretty easy. just get an Intel i5 or i7 - the highest you can afford, a SSD - the ones that suits your budget, find a motherboard suited for that gear and ram to go with. Then find a cabinett that fits your stuff. the newest intels have decent screen cards inbuild so u doenst have to think about that for production. they only support 1920 though as far as i know.
example:
Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GH 300$
Intel 330 120GB SSD 100$
16 GB RAM 100$
Decent motherboard+cabinet/psu: 300$
Total 800USD. |
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| itsamemario |
I agree with RANN's statement about not getting a PC for serious production. If he has the same definition of 'serious production' as me. If you are running a studio where people book time etc. you'd be better off paying for a mac seeing as the difference between an 'equal' PC could easily be lost by only a few hours of downtime.
However, if you're just doing your own thing at home, or maybe even a small studio, you'd be much better off with a PC. Not only will you be able to customize your setup more easily, both hard/software and OS, and more likely be able to afford a far more powerful setup than what Apple can offer. Plus you can preview your track to Milkdrop2. You can't that on a mac, no mac software even come close, and you don't know for sure if a track is ready if you havent tried it with Milkdrop. |
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| Juan Paulino |
| quote: | Originally posted by clay
wtf is milkdrop?? |
you don't know? its the latest thing. |
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| clay |
| quote: | Originally posted by Juan Paulino
you don't know? its the latest thing. |
you are the latest thing. |
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| Juan Paulino |
| quote: | Originally posted by clay
you are the latest thing. |
anyway milkdrop is to expensive for me anyway |
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| clay |
| its just a free winamp visualizer? |
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| clay |
| man im bored this weekend. selling my macbook pro, waiting for my new computer-parts. on call-duty at work so cant drink, would be perfect to produce music right now but im erasing the mac, moving files into harddrives, converting to fat32 etc. boring . cant wait to get rid of this mac . lol. |
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| TyeDynamite |
| Haha dam that's a bad situation clay but glad you were bored enough to help me out. I'm going for the i5 3570k I think. I know those I series processors have integrated graphics but do you guys think I'd be much better off getting a different graphics card? |
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| itsamemario |
| quote: | Originally posted by clay
its just a free winamp visualizer? |
not just any visualizer, it's THE visualizer. forget about ing r4 or anything that comes for itunes, milkdrop2 is what you want to check your tracks in. |
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