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Rick I'm totally with you on these points. I find Apple's corporate tie-ins quite repugnant. Apple this and apple that, making you buy their proprietary accesories- Sony are the same and I avoid their products for the same reasons. I'm with you on the grass roots development of everything from VST's, (;-) to sequencers to VJstuff etc I have a vision of ordinary people designing the means of music production and distribution. Designing tools for music generation, processing, sequencing, interactivity, distribution and consumption. It's an exciting prospect made possible by dint of the internet. God Bless the Global village! There's a snob value to macs that I dislike too but that's probably because I'm permanantly skintocks! Peace G > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:25:02 -0800 > From: looppool@cruzio.com > To: supersimples@gmail.com > CC: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: Re: ADK Pro Audio PC VS MacBook Pro > > On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Rafael Nunes wrote: > > > > As much as I want to want the Mac, I feel like the wise thing is to > > get a PC. Am I crazy? > From my perspective, and I'm not nearly as knowledgeable as many on > this list (read Per Boysen, Jeff Larson, > Andy Butler, et. al.), if you have a lot of > money, then I'd go with the new MacBook Pros because you can run > OS X and Win 7 simultaneously using Boot Camp. > > This allows you to do your websurfing and email correspondance without > great a great fear of viruses > and then to run whatever audio you want on either OS. > > On the down side of purchasing a Mac, I have these feelings: > > I, personally, love VST instruments and, especially, the fact that very > young, out of their bedroom programmers > are continually innovating new sound design strategies in the free/share > ware world. > Currently, developement of freeware VSTs is running around 20 to 1 (PC > to Mac). > > Additionally, I personally love several programs that not only run > solely on Windows but also > have no true equivalents in the Mac world (my favorite addiction is > FLStudio producers edition > and then a bunch of proprietary small standalone programs like Tuareg > and Granulab). I also, personally > just really like the Sony family of programs that used to be Sonic > Foundry.....Sound Forge, Vegas Video, > Acid, et. al. So I prefer the PC side of things. > > But it all comes with a price and that is a lot of working tweaking > things so that your system will run smoothly. > OS X just runs well out of the box. > > The downside of all of this is that I don't have a lot of money and the > Mac world is just more of an > upper middle class kind of computing solution. Peripherals cost more > money and Mac is constantly > figuring out ways to keep people using their stuff (my headphone jack > just quit working because standard > sized mini plug headphones trip a switch that make the headphone out an > optical out ---- solution: > only buy more expensive Mac peripherals..........that stuff is maddening > to me. > > Lastly, talking to the people at the so called 'Genius Bar' told me > that they assume that their laptops > will run for 4-5 years, so be prepared to be buying a MacBook Pro at > that frequency. > > I spent $3,500 on mine , fully tricked out, and a vastly better one > was in place within a years' time at > half the price. > > To get a pro video card in your MacBook Pro, be prepared to pay an > extra $600. > Figure that out against the $200 or so it will cost you on a PC laptop. > > Admittedly, I have only an anecdotal horror story with my MacBook Pro-- > $4,000 of repairs in 4 years, covered by the warranty and extra $300 > Apple Care 'insurance) but > I know many people who haven't had a single problem with the exact same > model, so I believe > I just have bad karma with Apple............ > > After all was said and done I figured that I could have purchased two > phenomenal > PC laptops (one off the internet for audio, one on for video and web > browsing) and a very high quality > Video Projector and Screen and still had change in my pocket. Given > my problems with my > laptop, I wish I had. > > rick walker > |