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PC=workhorse, industry standard....

MAC=cool, trendy, hippy....conversation piece.

Depends what you're looking for.

I got to spend some time with a new Macbook Pro, the hardware was a true delight. With XP it becomes a powerhouse.

~chewy

MAC!

You just use it! My old DELL XPS M140 sometimes lost connection after 45-50min with my Faderfox!

You need workhorse , indusrty standard fighting faster that tiny VIRUS, TROJAN etc....

gafferuk wrote:

tylenol wrote:here's an earlier similar poll -- this one might not get a lot of votes because that one is pretty recent.

Other pole is mostly windows, This pole is mostly mac, i call it 50-50.

No, the other poll is 55% mac -- it just breaks down mac into intel vs powerpc.

Ill be the one lone windows guy to chime in.

Running a HP Pavilion dv9000z CTO with a AMD Turon 64 X2(2.0ghz) with 2.0gb of DDR2 SDRAM at 667mhz(or something close to that, forget offhand) running on a hot rodded Windows XP pro install. Just got it not too long ago.

Believe it or not, I loaded a 30 track song with 17 plugins on it (things like WizooVerb, Waves C4's, Nomad Factory Blue Tubes compressors, Tracks modules, etc etc..) and i was only hitting 33-45%. Again, this is on a notebook with a SATA 5400rpm drive. And just to make things fun, i was running this on the stock sound card that comes in the notebook with a little help from the ASIO4ALL driver - http://www.asio4all.com/. Its a "Conexant High Definition Audio Driver " which does 96k 24-bit IN and 192k 24-bit OUT. Not bad for a Stock laptop sound card.

I paid roughly $1500 bucks for it. Macs are just simply overpriced and hyped out to the max. Really, talk to some REAL studio engineers, they will tell you the deal too. Yeah. sure.. there are some big time studios running macs. But they also have MEGA bucks and mostly running Mac Servers(forget the name of them) instead of desktop boxes.

Anyway, ill stand by windows to the end. Ive never been the one to fall into all the hype and trendy business. I know you cats got bootcamp, which clearly shows that windows is a better OS, since everyone wants to run it on there new apples. But it all comes down to how much you want to pay. Apples not the only one that makes decent hardware. But people seem to think so..

My votes for windows. Way more software, you can customize your box with hardware you want. Don't have to send it in to anyone to get shit fixed with proprietary crap, Ahhh, the list goes on...

they both suck
so does every linux distro... its 2006 where is my 3d holographic screen and my levitating keyboard???

they both suck
so does every linux distro... its 2006 where is my 3d holographic screen and my levitating keyboard???

i own and use both,but it's mac for music & PC for the net and office tasks with me now - although i'm writing this on my powerbook.

originally was a PC user but due to a music work necessity had to get a mac....at the time much to my annoyance.

got to say i've not looked back,OSX was (is) very intuitive to learn,and I was up & running in seemingly minutes - after a few days felt i knew it quite well,after a few weeks i think i probably did!

personally found it very stable,Live runs brilliantly on my dual 2Ghz G5,and Live6 is the best yet.

I'm loving being able to work to picture properly....how cool is the way it handles more than one video clip - great for my work,where the director often sends new edits,animations etc which can now just be flown in....like a proper grown up sequencer

there's lots to be said for both macs & pc's and in comparasin to the old atari for instance they're mindblowing.you can get good work done on either platform IMHO.
a good mate who is a very serious producer is windows on PC all the way,i'm now sticking with my macs,but wouldn't rule out a PC in the future if it better fitted my requirements.

my last words though..... get the mac

HARDWARE!

akai, bitch!

-facetious

I like to go both ways........er, computers that is..............

Hey, why not have a mac plus pc option?

chewy wrote:PC=workhorse, industry standard....

MAC=cool, trendy, hippy....conversation piece.

That's rubbish...

...Makes me sick the way I've turned into a Mac fanboy

Both.

Each have their pros and cons. Right tool for the right job.

this poll is bogus.

mac users, being more nerdy and socially isolated, are much more likely to participate in the forum and polls like this to satisfy their cravings to 'belong' while also promoting their trendy gap-wearing 'individualism'.

most PC users have such rock solid stability they never need to use the forum.

the last one wrote:this poll is bogus.

mac users, being more nerdy and socially isolated, are much more likely to participate in the forum and polls like this to satisfy their cravings to 'belong' while also promoting their trendy gap-wearing 'individualism'.

most PC users have such rock solid stability they never need to use the forum.

Your probably right!

neither.

just dont bother.

its so cool...

on my blackbook 2gb ram... live6 booting is just 3secs...

isnt it great =)

the last one wrote:this poll is bogus.

mac users, being more nerdy and socially isolated, are much more likely to participate in the forum and polls like this to satisfy their cravings to 'belong' while also promoting their trendy gap-wearing 'individualism'.

most PC users have such rock solid stability they never need to use the forum.

You've never met anyone who plays an MMORPG then? :lol