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Help on mac Vrs PC for recording and whether to wait for mac updates or go PC?

  • 18-09-2008 03:35PM
    #1
    me-skywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭


    Please, need some help from ppl with knowledge on laptops and recording.

    Ive been highly considering a Mac for home recording.
    but there is new updates for the Mac due out in october problem is im getting impatient waiting and have been looking around at a PC laptop... the debate will rage on PC vrs Mac.

    No if i was to get a PC im thinkin a toshiba a300d 4gb ram 250hardrive 2.1ghz
    or possibly a HP as are a strong reliable laptop..

    OR should i just keep my money and wait for the new macbooks in october?

    thanks


Comments

  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,165 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    If I was you I'd get a pc. You'll get a much more powerful machine for the money.


  • #3
    Passenger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,152 ✭✭✭Passenger


    What software are you using? This may be the deciding factor. Though you should consider the following question; why do all music professionals and studios use Apple computers? :)


  • #4
    Pete4779
    Closed Accounts Posts: 622 ✭✭✭Pete4779


    Passenger wrote: »
    What software are you using? This may be the deciding factor. Though you should consider the following question; why do all music professionals and studios use Apple computers? :)


    Because "all" music professionals and studios are so....creative! You hear it everyday when listening to the radio the depth and variance of music on offer.:P:P


    You'll find a lot more...and that means a LOT more hardware for Windows based PCs than MacOS. MacOS has LogicPro and that's it's only trump card. If you don't need that, then basically all other music software is on Windows + way more hardware; there is also a lot more software support for a wider amount of interfaces and music creation software on WIndows. The only thing it doesn't have is Logic Pro.


  • #5
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,116 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Pete4779 wrote: »
    The only thing it doesn't have is Logic Pro.
    And that's only because Apple bought Emagic and pulled the plug on the Windows version.

    If I was putting together a dedicated music system now, I would do neither Mac nor Windows: I'd get some decent PC hardware, and install Ubuntu Studio on it. So much powerful music software, so little cost (zero). Took me a little time to get my head around JACK, but once I did, it's pretty amazing.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #6
    mike dee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭mike dee


    Depends. For music i would recommend mac, but the cost is higher. If cost is not a determining factor buy a mac. Hold out till oct then or else try and get refub in apples refurb store get same protection.


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  • #7
    Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    I would hold out till Oct 14th either way, as the Macs may see a price cut, as indicated by Apple's reduced expected profit margins for the short term.


  • #8
    selephonic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭selephonic


    One thing to consider is whether you'll ever be using a firewire interface. I've found its pretty tough to find laptops with 6-pin firewire ports, which you'll need to bus power an interface. A Macbook has one as standard and you can always install windows on it.

    I've also had big problems getting firewire running under Ubuntu but I think thats just my stupidity.

    If getting a macbook, definitely wait for the upgrades.


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