conquistadore
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Hey I'm varun and I'v been made moderator of this part of the audiocourses forum....so lets get a nice juicy discussion running. And about what? The question that I'v been hearing from a lot of people : is Mac or PC better for audio? Microsoft says that Xp is 34% times faster than Windows 2000 and much much more stable.
Most people I know (at least where I live) use Mac at the pro level but can Xp be trusted?
What OS do you use? What have you come across in your experience? Share your views...
Is Mac or PC better for audio?
Lets get this rolling....
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wailingalleycat
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| pricey mac |
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Firstly, PC = cheap, mac = out of my price range
also all my software only runs on PC so even though id love to swap, it would cost me thousands
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conquistadore
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| Mac and crashing |
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Is it true that the Mac OS never crashes? Have you came across a Mac crashing? |
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wailingalleycat
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I bet I could crash it, lol
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conquistadore
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LOL!!
Then I can imagine what your PCs are going through! |
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wailingalleycat
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The media department at my school recently recieved delivery of 28 new Edit machines.
each one has:
Dual P4 3.6ghz CPU's
400gb of HDD
2gb of ram (on each CPU)
and super jazzy professiona Video/audio capture and playback cards.
The ICT tech goes, well you wont crash one of these beauty's!
So i promptly loaded up Adobe Audition (thats only sound program on it) and whacked a couple of multiband compressors on a dozen channels, few reverbs, TIMBEERRR!! down it goes...
HEHEHE, IT techs are no match for us sound engineers!
but you wouldnt you just love one of those machines...mmmm
all i have to do now is link up the 30 machines in that room and run distributed processing, does pro tools support that?
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conquistadore
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| Re: Dual P4 Media Edit Machines |
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quote:
Originally posted by wailingalleycat
each one has:
Dual P4 3.6ghz CPU's
400gb of HDD
2gb of ram (on each CPU)
and super jazzy professiona Video/audio capture and playback cards.
8O Drool... |
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Calipso
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| mac has never crashed |
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Ive had a mac since Febuary this year, and I hounestly am saying, that my mac has never crashed. Programs have "unexpectedly quit" but it has never crashed or freezed on me. I have never had to forcefully restart it. (touch wood!) Its very reliable. And before i had used PC for about 8 years, and Mac OS X is alot more stable and reliable than microsoft operating systems.
Also Windows is so prone to so many things like virus' etc. Yes there are virus' for Mac, but nothing like the amount for windows. I also found after several months of running Windows, the performance radically deteriated.
Another important difference between Mac and PC is the hardware. PC parts are built by countless companies and manufactures, so the compeition is high, so prices are cheaper. But also teh hardware itself becomes cheaper, less-a-quality of build and standard. Mac on the otherhand, the hardware inside a Mac is high quality and high standard hardware, built specifically for mac. So macs may be more expensive, but as the old saying goes, "You get what you pay for".
Macs are so less complicated. Thats the beauty of Macs OS, is its simplicity. Simple but powerful. Windows is crammed with so much crap, no wonder it goes wrong all the time! |
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wailingalleycat
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My PC is being dodgy atm, i just got hold of an old Dell P3, which i use for net access, so i have taken my newer PC (Athlon 64) off the net to use as a pure audio machine.
But this dell has this weird thing, where it crashes if you try to select more than 2 things while holding the CTRL key. thats windows for you!
Also the stupid windows updates things interrupt everything, you keep getting little speech bubbles popping up from the taskbar every 5 mins from various programs, it gets very distracting, keep it simple stupid!
Somebody buy me a mac....plleeeassseeee
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