Pc Bashing

[F5D]

I've been using a dual G5 powermac now for 8 months and altough I didn't have much problems with pc's before I must say that I still have alot less problems with this mac. In fact right now I don't have any. I don't have to worry about viruses or anything. The system won't slow down like windows because there's no registry and the data on the harddrives won't get fragmented. OSX just feels more stable every time you use it. In fact I sold my pc a week ago and bought a supernova 2 rack with the money. I have had everything running on mac for months now and no need for a pc anymore.

I can say that I didn't know anything about osx operating system before I bought a mac. Logic was the reason why I bought it and I didn't know about the rest almost at all. All my friends said that I'm crazy because I'm gonna buy a mac. "there's no software for mac, they're expensive, blaa blaa...." However none of those people had even used a mac and neither had I. We didn't know anything about macs but still kept speaking of them like if we knew something.

The first time I tried the osx was when I turned my mac's power on the very first time. The OSX had not been the reason to switch to mac because I didn't know how good it is. However now I can say that I got alot more from switching to mac than just the logic audio. I don't regret the switch at all.

All this mac vs. pc talk is like talking of religion. It seems that many people just keep talking and talking altough they know nothing about the other side and get angry very easily when talking about these things. I came from pc side to mac and I don't think anymore that mac users are foolish or that "there's no software for macs" and "nobody supports them". These are really good machines and there's much more software available for macs than you can imagine. Sometimes it sounds very hilarious when somebody suddenly asks: "How you're using skype/MSN? Is it available for mac?"

Of course you go and buy a computer which runs your favourite software the fastest (like I did) but chase some more information up of the other side before talking about something you have no real information or experience.

By this post I don't refer to anybody but all. I was one of the dark sider's, doomed macs and also made one of my friends to buy a pc laptop instead of a powerbook which he was going to buy. Now I regret that because I have a mac and have zero problems but the friend who I told to buy pc instead is in big troubles with his laptop. He just had to format the whole harddrive because of worms and viruses and keeps calling me every now and then about his pc related problems. I still haven't had the courage to tell him that I use only mac these days.

[Timo]

Virus scanner + Firewall + AntiSpyware + Windows updates = one happy, virus/trojan/worm-free internet PC!

Of course for music making you need none of those things, and you wont get a worm/virus/trojan if you use legit software!

I hear what you're saying, though. Mac OS is similar to the old Amiga in many ways. I absolutely loved the way that Amiga worked. I still regularly think the way PCs sometimes do things is backward when compared back to Amiga computers..... The way that Amigas didn't necessarily have to load up Workbench (the Amiga's "Windows" equivalent) to load a program, hence saving masses of system resources by loading up just the program, its related drivers, and nothing else. True multi-tasking was great. The ability to address RAM as if it were a disk drive was great. AmigaOS was optimised to the max and everything was so efficient (amazing to say they had just 1mb RAM)!

[Dreaming]If only Amiga stepped in and created an OS for PC, so that we had Microsoft, Apple, Linux and Amiga OSs to choose from! I know the hardware constraints would be much different, though. Not forgetting Amiga has effectively been dead in the water for the last 10yrs, of course. (But they still make OSs for Mac G3s, lol!)[/Dreaming]

Otherwise, Apple OS on PC hardware should be good. Will be nice to see the benchmarks on Apple and Microsoft OSs on otherwise identical hardware. This is good news. Microshaft will be FORCED to tidy up their slug of an OS.

Originally Posted by Drammy

Timo, In response to your signature - I think they are already on OS 1.8 or something

There's nothing wrong with a bit of gentle peer pressure. Hopefully importable/customisable wavetables might appear before, i don't know, OS v10.9, hoho.

[F5D]

Originally Posted by Timo

Otherwise, Apple OS on PC hardware should be good. Will be nice to see the benchmarks on Apple and Microsoft OSs on otherwise identical hardware. This is good news. Microshaft will be FORCED to tidy up their slug of an OS.

These tests have to be done with the new apple intel hardware because the osx needs an apple hardware to run. There's a big dongle on the mobo and the motherboards are not the same which are available for pc customers. However Windows will run with the new apple intel machines. I guess this is what you meant.

If Apple allowed the osx to run on any pc, they could say good bye to apple computer hardware but microsoft would loose market shares to apple maybe even more because many pc users would go for osx instead of windows. We'll see what's going to happen...

[core7]

Originally Posted by DIGITAL SCREAMS

Ive used dell for many years. Never had a problem with them. Very reliable....but then again ive never used a mac. Macs dont really appeal to me....i think they are grossly over priced.

Get yourself a Dell with P4 2Ghz, 1gig RAM, 120Gib HD (8mb buffer) and a Delta 10/10 and you'll be sorted for years.

all for ?850

DS

I've got almost an identical set-up , ( minus the delta 10/10 ) I've got a Digi 001 and I've had little to no problems. Alot of people bash Dell, but they're decent for the money.