what runs Live better PC or MAC?

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:37 pm

yeah. i bet you cant wait till you get your hands on the dumbed down version of osx.

toneroll · Post by **toneroll** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:57 pm

couldnt give a toss mate... i dont care much for "dock bars" and "library" directories... blah blah , i like windows . i strip it down to nothing all o better to make music with

bencodec · Post by **bencodec** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:23 pm

AdamJay wrote:i agree with Drush,
the reason i own the computer that i own is because of Live.
Live is my OS, Application, Hardware, and Software. everything i do musically anymore is centered around Live.

I can understand your situation, and maybe if i was only using live then i'd consider a PC (though personally i would love to see a linux version of live, then you'd really see those AMD chips perform)

However i don't ONLY use live and I'm sure like many others, i can't imagine being able to make the music i'm interested in using only live. without tools like supercollider, metasynth, GRM tools, max/msp, soundhack, and audiosculpt i'd find it very hard to make the noises i'm interested in and i'd still be stuck waiting for someone to write a VSTi that did what i want.

Live's a great tool and it's certainly a big part of the way i put my music together, but it's not the sole source of my sounds.

so in those situations personally i'm very very glad i have my powerbook.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:26 pm

toneroll wrote:couldnt give a toss mate... i dont care much for "dock bars" and "library" directories... blah blah , i like windows . i strip it down to nothing all o better to make music with

You use your computer only for music?

I don't - MP3 library, word processing + layout, note keeping, building web sites, Ruby programming, web surfing, e-mail, IM, images, and tonnes of other stuff - and I *need* Unix...

-Paws

drush · Post by **drush** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:40 pm

reason right there to have more than 1 computer

toneroll · Post by **toneroll** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 12:27 am

noisetonepause wrote:
toneroll wrote:couldnt give a toss mate... i dont care much for "dock bars" and "library" directories... blah blah , i like windows . i strip it down to nothing all o better to make music with
You use your computer only for music?

I don't - MP3 library, word processing + layout, note keeping, building web sites, Ruby programming, web surfing, e-mail, IM, images, and tonnes of other stuff - and I *need* Unix...

-Paws

no course i use it for all that stuff , well ,word processin note keeping , one day web sites, games , putting songs on my AHEM ipod ... haha..-- but ive got partions . for music making, its audio only aps, theres nothing else installed there.. the one i am on now has got everything else, and all the above stuff is done in third party stuff anyways the OS is really irrelavent to me.. (but it is good that live runs really well on it.) the job always gets done. you trying to say you can somehow do it easier on "panther" or "tiger" haha

EDIT.... does anyone even remember the topic for F£$"'s sake...

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:31 am

drush wrote:reason right there to have more than 1 computer

Why? When one can do it all? Besides, I don't want to be lugging around three laptops so that when I go to a lecture I pull out one and when I want to make a beat on the train I have to take out another - defeats the purpose, don't it?

And MacOSX doesn't give a rat's backside if you have a million and three image processing apps installed next to Live... another reason to love it.

you trying to say you can somehow do it easier on "panther" or "tiger" haha

Yes I'd say it's a superior operating system... but I doubt you (one) would know without trying it.

-Paws

toneroll · Post by **toneroll** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:09 am

ive messed about on it, in a museum near me, and my sister used to work for a website called ammo city and i spent the day there messing about on them... , cant see how i can email better on osx using my yahoo account tho..... or how illustrator might work bettr in osx or something.. (besides rendering times)

fair enough people have preferences when it comes to OS's..... i know that but

"does live run better on a pc or mac?"

Komplex · Post by **Komplex** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:20 am

holy shit. 9 pages of discussion about this topic when the answer is a simple Live runs better on PC's

2kilo · Post by **2kilo** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:30 pm

@noisetonepause

Yeah I've seen some "nupower" upgrade stuff for my old Powerbook but its usually around £300 notes for only a G4 500.... Anyway with a new DVD drive costing £700 from Apple there's no point really, better off buying a new PC... Lazy but I don't really have the time to hunt for second hand stuff either...

£300 for only a G4 500 upgrade !!!*££**???
£150 for a new motherboard and current top spec P4 chip....