forge wrote: We dont still argue about Beta versus VHS video, do we??
That is where YOU become the person making the assumptions here. Macs are not beta, windows is not VHS!
Yet windows people cannot help but diss, slam an pisstake EVERY time something specifically mac is brought up, like this very thread. If you and others are so very tired of macs being discussed, stay the fuck away from topics about macs! Jeez? I fucking never see people trolling on "new 64 bit AMD chips! any good? type posts here, but people seem to think it's just fine to take a shit on those of us who use macs, and it's not some fucking cult to use a mac, PC isn't a religion either.
There's no law that sez you HAVE to support every fucking motherboard out there, and if you think it's easy for Microsoft, you really have another thing coming. The R&D cost for them is ridiculous. While OSX is stable enough on it's own, the fact that Apple make the hardware too is always going to add to that stability, it's what they do, if you don't like it use a PC.
The reason why it's always a PC vs mac war around here is because people always trash either mac or PC. Though honestly, the real bile seems to come from the PC side.
What amazes me is people bring up Logic when Microsoft killed Netscape Navigator, or any of other competitors in totally anti competitive ways. All this constant talk about what assholes Apple are when Microsoft is by far a worse company in every respect, but people somehow concentrate on things that make no sense, like Apple supporting Logic on PC's when audio geeks like us are all about speed, and IBM can't get a G5 cool enough to fit into a powerbook. Honestly, would it make any business sense if your business is to sell computers to market a cross platform app that runs better on PC laptops than your own?
Now with Live, well powerbooks are simply more stable and less likely to have hardware failures than PC laptops, ( this is Consumer Reports, not some mac babble ), so using a slower powerbook for Live in live situations makes sense to some of us.
My question, again, when Intel powerbooks come out, and are just as fast as PC, or faster...... what are you mac haters going to say then? I mean it's a laptop, it's not upgradeable and you really want a decent build if you are to consider it an instrument like my Gibson Les Paul. It will be able to boot XP, and probably be about the same price as a high end PC laptop. What prevents anybody from seeing this as a great thing?
I mean really why is it I'm sitting her having to explain myself about a simple choice in hardware, when it's obviously a good choice? Robert Henke uses them for christs sake!
