PC or Mac for recording?

**kidkage** · 01-09-2012

For recording I'm fine with a PC. Windows is home for me.

But. Whenever I consider that being a one man band might mean performing with a laptop. I do feel like a MacBook Pro would be what I would prefer to use. Seems like they're the standard. Maybe one of these days I'll get one (though that's a lot of paychecks

). Maybe it'll eventually get me away from Windows systems as my desktop. Who knows?
But if I get the MacBook pro I'll put a windows logo sticker over the apple

**Mo Facta** · 01-10-2012

Originally Posted by saads

Even though I'm a Mac fan, I kinda get this

:

LOL

**Vamecx** · 01-24-2012

They're generally the same, hardware is where it's at.

**Mo Facta** · 01-26-2012

Originally Posted by Sief

They're generally the same, hardware is where it's at.

What hardware? The hardware that's also the same but quadruple the price?

Cheers

**Hakea** · 02-06-2012

Hi,

I use Macs and Windows machines. Both systems will do the job just fine, but neither is perfect.

Often it boils down to personal preference, or whatever you happen to have bought for other reasons such as price or what other software you want to run as well. If you’re a gamer then Windows gives you a far wider range of titles but you’re probably also fairly familiar with all the fun of bug fixes, patches, work-rounds, conflicts between different generations of hardware, driver updates, protecting yourself against malware, etc. I certainly am.

I’ve been messing around with computers for over 25 years, and assembling my own from bits for about 20 years. I started back in the days when a “Disk Operating System” did just that - operated the basic system - and wasn’t the bloated mixture of ‘lifestyle’ nonsense and patched up solutions to previous design choices that we seem to get today. But, thanks to increasingly fast hardware it all mostly still works. I’ve had a great deal of fun over the years building my own Windows machines and tweaking them all up. Plenty of frustration along the way too of course, but it was still generally a very enjoyable ride.

In earlier times Macs were quite a lot more expensive, but a few years ago their prices fell considerably and the gap became much smaller. So I started using Macs too. If you value the advantages - which you could probably roughly put under the heading of different design (both in the look and feel of the hardware and software and in its underlying structure) - then the price gap is worth paying. I’ve been running both Macs and Windows machines for some years now and don’t see any reason to be either a Hater or a Fanboy of either system. They both do a lot of jobs well.

There are also obvious advantages to not cramming every single thing you do into one box. For instance, we have a Windows machine that is only used for gaming and internet surfing and a Mac that has a range of music related software installed and which is hooked up to the recording gear. It makes it a lot easier to keep a system clean and well maintained for a particular job if it's not jammed full of everybody's favourite junk...

Works for us.

**ClausRogge** · 02-29-2012

Until 2003, when I finally bought a Mac G5, I did my HDR on an Atari Falcon ... actually finished quite a few CDs on that machine. Most of my Soundclick stuff (in my "music for free" link in my sig.) was done using that 16MHz monster

Now I'm using a Mac mini at home and a MacBook when I'm somewhere else.

**grh** · 02-29-2012

I know this is somewhat off topic, but I just finished the Steve Jobs biography. I highly recommend it to everyone.

**kidkage** · 02-29-2012

Originally Posted by grh

I know this is somewhat off topic, but I just finished the Steve Jobs biography. I highly recommend it to everyone.

I was never really interested in apple products, but always was interested in steve jobs' story. very cool. the day he died is when i decided one day i will buy an apple product.

those new mac pros look pretty tasty!

and unfortunately pretty pricey