Mac users?

[Niode]

Well, I meant a corporate 9-5 environment.

Macs FTW

[CantStrafeRight]

However for creative purposes, the macs will always rain supreme. You can't deny that, anyone that does is either misinformed or has never used one.

I've honestly never used a mac for longer than 3 minutes, so could you go into more detail why this is?

[Koopin_Krackerz]

My main computer is a Mac mini with a 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo and 512 MB of RAM that I have had for nearly 3 years now. Not powerful by any means but for what I need it for (writing papers, research for projects, goofing off on the internet) it does fine. I just got a Macbook with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM after I graduated. Love that laptop. I honestly don't even touch a Windows machine unless I'm at work or somewhere else that doesn't have a Mac.

[ott0bot]

However for creative purposes, the macs will always rain supreme. You can't deny that, anyone that does is either misinformed or has never used one.

I've honestly never used a mac for longer than 3 minutes, so could you go into more detail why this is?

Apple already assumes your going to do something creative with it. Whether it's audio recording, graphic design, photograhpy, film editing...or anything else. They make it so easy to install software, set it up, plug in usb controllers or a video interface. Colors look amazing on OSX too. Programs run really stable on Macs and rarely have fatal errors. Internet connectivity and wireless networking is vey simple. Everything is similified without being dumbed down. Plus now with the intel core duo, you can load linux or Windows onto a partitioned hard drive and use either opporating system. If you get a G5 you can even do quite a few upgrades yourself. Plus the units look stylish and are way more compact than the average PC.

[gradualmeltdown]

Considering digital audio ASM or "Core Audio" works very well. The way you can patch midi and audio between virtual and physical devices at the OS level is integrated in so well. Windows can accomplish all of the same results but by using a variety of 3rd party solutions.

Personally I use a Macbook 2ghz I bought the day they released. Its for live electronic music performance and production. It has NEVER crashed live using Ableton at a show. In comparison in my travels I have seen no less than 10 PC's using windows crash live. What a joke? Guess what a crowd does on the dancefloor at any club/party when the music stops? They leave!

Do I understand why this is, not entirely. Do I care? No thats why I finally bought a MAC. I use my computer as a tool and don't want to deal with fixing it all the time. For those that enjoy that and play games Windows is great.

[blaix]

Wife and I have been Mac users for many years. She's on a Macbook and I have a Mac Pro and an old Powerbook for when I'm on the go. The Mac Pro dual boots with Windows XP (thanks bootcamp!) for games. It actually seems to run XP better than it runs OS X :P

[lordofduct]

However for creative purposes, the macs will always rain supreme. You can't deny that, anyone that does is either misinformed or has never used one.

I've honestly never used a mac for longer than 3 minutes, so could you go into more detail why this is?

This is mostly opinion driven. I've meet several artists who can't stand Macs for doing art.

Film students constantly rave, but other then that I hear nightmare story after nightmare story. Along with some praise. But really they are nearly on par with PC and it's nightmares:adulation.

Oh and as an inverse to film students, it appears 3D artists utilize PC more then mac.




I won't get into my opinion of the OS itself, I'll just say it is NOT my cup of tea. But when it comes to hardware Mac upset me... that's where they used to have the leg up, one hell of a processor packing some punch. But for some reason they went Intel... what the gay!? Now it's just a PC with a different operating system and a 1 button mouse.

[Niode]

However for creative purposes, the macs will always rain supreme. You can't deny that, anyone that does is either misinformed or has never used one.

I've honestly never used a mac for longer than 3 minutes, so could you go into more detail why this is?

Because it's instantly set up to deal with creative situations. You open photoshop, your screen is almost always configured to be set up at the optimum colour settings. If not it's dead simple to adjust it in the screen preferences.

Say I want to plug in a yamaha dx10 through my other usb-midi keyboard (which has midi throughs) and be able to use both keyboards in my project in Logic Pro, I want my project controlling my dx10 as a slave whilst I record the audio out of the keyboard straight into a separate audio channel in my project. I can do that out of the box. Can you do that on windows out of the box. Nope, not a chance in hell. I mean sure you can do it, eventually but definitely not out of the box.

Can you just plug an audio interface into windows and have instantly recognize what the device is, and map every-single input and output and be able to record straight away into a DAW at the highest quality the device supports? No you would need to install drivers and rely on ASIO if you're lucky.

Same with video cameras, if you edit video, being able to simply plug any camera into a mac and be able to download/stream footage off the disk/media straight into final cut pro is invaluable. Having firewire standard on every mac since it's inception is crucial to this functionality.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I use Mac OS X 0.6 Beta for PSP =D.

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7167

[Niode]

That's not OS X....


That's just a dumb little flash app/web portal....