Laptop PC or Mac?

o0o · Post by **o0o** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:02 pm

excuse me would some one of you explain what the firewire/ santa rosa
problem is with your macintosh computer.
I have a macbook cd2 2.0(regulara) with 2gig limit of ram memory. is my computer good for music?
I don't know what the reported firewire problems are and I don't know what santa rosa is either of if I have that or if that is bad.

???

nate_D · Post by **nate_D** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:09 pm

the santa rosa chipset was an update to the macbook hardware that allowed up to 4gb of ram instead of 2. i've got the same one you got (2ghz c2d with 2gb of ram max) and its awesome. i got mine around march of last year. you don't have santa rosa. no worries. still rocks.

o0o · Post by **o0o** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:23 pm

oh very good. thank you nate

nate_D · Post by **nate_D** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:40 pm

karl · Post by **karl** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:12 am

hello,this topic has ben of some help for me !! today i was close on buying an i mac for roughly £1300 after spending over 10 years on a p.c,,im sick of the p.c crashing all the time and struggling with my songs,im running live 6 and cubase and various plug-ins etc but real keen on switching over to mac and using live + logic 8,,what fire wire device would be best for the i mac i realy dont know ??? some one convert me !!! ha ha + how long would it take to get use to the mac and which version can you switch to p.c ???????? Doh !!! hellpppppppp

TITBAG · Post by **TITBAG** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:26 am

suspended childhood wrote:bottom line:

how serious are you about what you do:

do you want your screen to say HOME or PROFESSIONAL when it starts up in front of someone else? If you are extremely serious about what you do, you will never want the word HOME written on anything you use for PROFESSIONAL purposes.

MAC or PC?

What are the chances of failure when the product you use was built by the same people that wrote the Operating System?

Now what are the chances for failure of using a computer that was built by a different company than the company that wrote the Operating System?

Chances are, if the hardware is designed and built by the same company that designed and built the OS, then you will less likely have problems.

Microsoft doesnt build or design any hardware or computer.

what a fucking retarded argument. asus build the macbook "pro" you dumbfuck. inside it you will find intel chips. ms and intel are practically married. apple came very late to this world.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:19 am

TITBAG wrote:
what a fucking retarded ... you dumbfuck. inside it you will find intel chips. ms and intel are practically married. apple came very late to this world.

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adventurepants_ · Post by **adventurepants_** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:48 am

suspended childhood wrote:I think you should be brave, get a PC and replace all of your apps, and then put anti virus on it and watch all your resources go out the window.

only if youre a noob still running the nortons the machine came with

suspended childhood wrote: no seriously, if you decide to get a PC under no cirscumstances should you get anything with "home" on the end of it.

Get XP Professional.

MACS have FW400 and FW800 ports, PCs dont. Youll need these to talk to any serious interface and also for serious bandwidth for ext harddrives. Im not sure if the esata drive ports are on laptop yet...

for audio there should be zero differences between home and pro. in fact because of the crippled networking in Home, it may run better! no firewire ports on a pc? what was your last pc laptop, a compaq 286?

suspended childhood wrote: MAC Laptops also have DVI ONBOARD, PCs dont

please tell me youre trolling.