#989548 - 04/23/04 11:00 PM
Mac vs PC
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silverrain1
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Thank you for all of your responses to this same question to follow. I would love to hear more opinions.
I posted:
I am looking to buy a laptop ($1500-$1700) that can record music,but still indecisive between PC or Mac.
I heard different opions:
- PC can run many recording programs fater than Mac (?)
- Mac support picture and sound better, more user-friendly, encouraging creativity (?)
Anybody who is experienced with both Mac and PC in recording business, please help me out with some advice, analysis, or quote some website address
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#989549 - 04/24/04 04:11 PM
Re: Mac vs PC
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Bill@Welcome Home Studios
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"- PC can run many recording programs fater than Mac (?)
- Mac support picture and sound better, more user-friendly, encouraging creativity (?)"
Neither of these statements is true.
How many tracks do you need? Laptops are severly limited in simoutaneous recordable track count because of all of the junk that goes on under the hood to keep such small machines functioning properly. They also tend to have slow hard drives, 5400 RPM usually being the top speed one sees.
16 tracks should be no problem with most newer systems. Tom Sailor, who works at Synthaxe (US distributors for RME and Samplitude, among other fine products...) told me that he has no trouble with 24 using an external hard drive.
I've recently upgraded my laptop to a 7200 RPM drive, but I have not had the time to try to record with it yet, so my results are not yet in.
As I said in your previous post, you find the software that you like, and you buy the system to support it. Not the other way 'round.
High powered laptops are expensive. The base Tecra that I looked at was reasonably priced at some considerable number under $2000US. But by the time that I added a 60 gig 7200 RPM drive, 2 gigs of RAM, a DVD burner and whatever else I felt that I needed, the price was around $3500. A desktop at the same performance level would have been under a thousand dollars.
If you need desktop performance and yet still need extreme portability, consider one of the little mini PC, (like the Shuttle,) plus an LCD screen.
Bill
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#989550 - 04/24/04 10:36 PM
Re: Mac vs PC
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deanmass
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Pick your software. Then pick your platform based on the software.
I love macs, I own and use macs, But, PC's are just as capable of making music.
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