PC or Mac for recording?

Do you use PC or Mac for recording

  • PC

    Votes: 343 51.9%
  • Mac

    Votes: 217 32.8%
  • Both

    Votes: 80 12.1%
  • Other

    Votes: 21 3.2%

  • Total voters
    661
if you want to be technical, one could say that apple has a monopoly on the Mac OS. no other company makes computers with Mac OS, therefore apple has no competition. in europe, they made apple make Itunes downloaded songs availible to put on any mp3 player. they said they had a monopoly on mp3 players (?) because 85% of player sales went to the iPod. that makes no sense at all, how's that a monopoly? the fact that no one else makes mac computers is a monopoly...

windows machines are made by a ton of companies- but microsoft has a monopoly and Apple doesnt!

i think steve jobs is blowing someone in government.
 
altitude909 said:
Here is what Torvalds had to say about Mac "unix"

That article is over 5 years old? And about the original release of OS X?

Ancient history. :D

Man, I'd love to have one of the intel macs. All these idiotic arguements about which platform is better and now you can have a machine that runs both natively.

Hell, you could even triple boot with Linux. Geek heaven!

-Chris
 
TragikRemix said:
if you want to be technical, one could say that apple has a monopoly on the Mac OS. no other company makes computers with Mac OS, therefore apple has no competition. in europe, they made apple make Itunes downloaded songs availible to put on any mp3 player. they said they had a monopoly on mp3 players (?) because 85% of player sales went to the iPod. that makes no sense at all, how's that a monopoly? the fact that no one else makes mac computers is a monopoly...

windows machines are made by a ton of companies- but microsoft has a monopoly and Apple doesnt!

i think steve jobs is blowing someone in government.

God dammit! ONLY FORD is making Ford engines!!! Those damned capilistic monopolists! I wanna be able to buy a Ford with a Chevy engine in it! And a Toyota transmission!

Mac is allowed to make and sell their own products. That they only have a small part of the market share of computers means that they are NOT a monopoly. Windows does have overwhelming market share and because Micro$oft occasionally uses its OS to push other Micro$oft (non-OS related) applications is what makes it a potential monopoly.

I DO think Apple needs to open up their DRM to allow other mp3 players access to the iTunes store. And make sure the iPod is compatible with other services... but whatever.

Fact remains that if you can't use either platform for making music its your fault, not the OS's.

-Chris
 
Chris Shaeffer said:
God dammit! ONLY FORD is making Ford engines!!! Those damned capilistic monopolists! I wanna be able to buy a Ford with a Chevy engine in it! And a Toyota transmission!

thats not a monopoly because that has to do with vehicles, and everyone knows that cars and trucks are instruments of the devil. the government doesnt mess with the devils monopolies.
 
When it comes down to it, whatever you perfer is what will work best for you. I've used both PC and Mac and I find them both to be good, it really just depends on your budget and preference. PC's were all I ever used and I still use it today for music purposes, in my audio engineering class we use Mac and I love it as well. I just can't fork out 3000+ dollars to get a Mac :p. So until I can afford it...the PC shall do me fine.
 
So the moral of the story is that if you have the money, go Mac. If you don't get a PC and you'll still be able to record music just fine.

I'm using a self-built PC running Windows XP Pro and recording in Sonar 5. I have had to do a little tweaking, but I find that kind of stuff fun. Also been running my Windows install for about a year and a half, and it's still moving along nicely.
 
warble said:
So the moral of the story is that if you have the money, go Mac. If you don't get a PC and you'll still be able to record music just fine.

I'm using a self-built PC running Windows XP Pro and recording in Sonar 5. I have had to do a little tweaking, but I find that kind of stuff fun. Also been running my Windows install for about a year and a half, and it's still moving along nicely.

If I had money I'd buy a better PC... The moral is to use what you like because it's six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
 
mrT said:
If I had money I'd buy a better PC... The moral is to use what you like because it's six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

Which is what I would do...just trying to grasp yet another Mac vs. PC thread (to which there are WAY TO MANY here).
 
I have always used a Mac for my audio applications. Since 1997.

I don't think that viruses, adware, spyware needs to be discussed here, because:

A) You should always be behind a firewall

and

B) Your DAW should not be an internet computer.

Saying things like "no trojan horses/viruses on macs" is a lie. The first proven concept of a virus that could clone itself was on a Mac. Also, there are many many well-known vulnerabilities to the Unix platform. With any computer system, the user determines what happens to it, not the system itself. Playing the "I am safe because I have a Mac" game will only find you hosting kiddie porn for a Russian Hacker Gang. Protect yourself.

Having said that. I like the way the Mac works for audio. And it looks way better in a studio. PC's are a little too dingy for me. Just my opinion.
 
jimmy2sticks said:
Playing the "I am safe because I have a Mac" game will only find you hosting kiddie porn for a Russian Hacker Gang. Protect yourself.

Speaking from experience eh?
 
Only because I used to work in IT Security, and people would bring a load of problems to me. And say things like "I thought Macs were protected from this stuff."

I have never been the victim of a Russian Hacker Gang. But I have had many attempts. I log all incoming and outgoing traffic on both my personal internet connection and my web hosting company. It is amazing how many attempts to break-in happen all day and night long. In the past hour (since 2:23 P.M. CST), there have been 238 unsuccessful attacks on my firewall. It is happening to all of you right now....
 
I don't know why would a person run windows xp on an mac anyways'. any windows has a whole lot of bugs, and is unstable as hell. Only reason I can see why someone would, would be the ease of use of a pc user, to do it on a mac. I'm a PC user, only cause I can't afford the top of the line mac's right now. Plus I'm more PC literate then mac.
 
PC right now but I might go Mac soon. I have always liked the flexibility of a PC, I can build them from parts, and fix 'em when something goes wrong. Especially Athlon processor systems work well for digital audio. You can't deny the stability of the Macintosh's operating system though.
 
Mac all the way for me.Used to use a Dell PC but used a mac at a friends studio and that was it,i was sold.I haven't had many problems with Mac and those problems were my user errors :o . I have a G4, G4 ibook and a G5 and very happy with them.OSX has made it easier to work with mac,but i still like to use the odd app on OS9.i think it's good to go with what you like to use.I'm sure PC's have got better but i'll stick with Mac,ta! :cool:
 
Mindset said:
... any windows has a whole lot of bugs, and is unstable as hell.

Come on, man. I've been running Windows XP Pro for roughly a year and a half, and I haven't had any show stopping issues and the install has been very stable for me. Your statement sounds like it's coming from an inexperienced user who doesn't know how to properly maintain a PC. Take that as you will.

No, I'm not a Microsoft lover as I've certainly had my share of issues in the past with both MS OS's and MS apps, but from where I'm sitting here, I don't think XP is that terrible.
 
I use a custom built PC - spoke to Dell and got the techs there to build me an Optiplex specificly for music production. It's never crashed (except when I tried to run GigaStudio3 :mad: ) - works great for Cubase SX and can handle huge samples without any problem - no latency issues either. Sure, if you spend your day browsing porn you're going to pick up spyware and viruses - just don't do that with your DAW system. Good thing about the pc is the number of VST's and low cost/good quality plug-ins that are available. I'm thinking of getting a G5 soon just to run ProTools with my HUI alongside my PC which I'll use exclusively for midi.
 
For tyhe record I use Mac.

I was ready to buy something with a little more power and more guts than my laptop...

I had a nice laptop too, 2.12ghz 512 RAM and a 40GB drive...

Nothing wrong with that machine but I really wanted something to stay on my desk in studio run a nice interface and make recordings.

So after saving money up and a fair amount of researching I got an iMac G5 and a PreSonus firepod. This machine in studio works like a charm!

I love the fact that as of yet no audio drivers are needed to run my firepod!

core audio is very stable and FAST!

now last weekend a buddy of mine was hanging out at his wok place, I had my old laptop on his wifi and he started messing with it, i was using his Imac G4 to do a little work, he said "I need a laptop will you trade me for that iMac?" so of course that little laptop is his, I now run apple only..... soon I will be buying a new laptop powerbook (gonna get a nicer refurbed one) so I can go mobil again.... this of course was in the works a while back any way....

But after I had worked with my iMac for a month, I noticed that the laptop had not been booted up in a while, I headed back to using it once, decided then that for what I do with a machine WINDOWS IS NOT for me!
 
warble said:
Come on, man. I've been running Windows XP Pro for roughly a year and a half, and I haven't had any show stopping issues and the install has been very stable for me. Your statement sounds like it's coming from an inexperienced user who doesn't know how to properly maintain a PC. Take that as you will.

No, I'm not a Microsoft lover as I've certainly had my share of issues in the past with both MS OS's and MS apps, but from where I'm sitting here, I don't think XP is that terrible.

I don't think I'm an inexperience user, I've been repairing & troubleshooting PC's for years and years on going, certified. When I was working as a sr. tech at Lone Star Computers' over in DFW area, I've seen over hundreds and hundreds of computers come and go, because of windows. Maybe you are one of the lucky ones, or you simply don't have much on your windows installed to cause any problems. It's hard to believe, you haven't had to restart your computer once, because it either locked up, or your internet explorer gave an error. Also, I didn't say that Xp crashes ALL THE TIME, but it does crash more then mac os does and XP doesn't crash like daily or anything, I was stating that basically the frequency of crashes that happen, say in one year, is a whole lot more then one that's running a mac os.

In a couple months, an OS should not crash even once. Any more then twice is to much. The only stable windows is windows 2000/NT. Try running a server on a windows xp machine for a whole year, and have no problems at all. Also, ANY fair share of problems is problems, regardless of how you look at it. It sounds like your just over looking any problems that you had with microsoft. I've seen Linux user's run their computer for a year or more, with it being on all the time, and not crash once, not lag because of 2 many app's on, not dump it's system memory & cause crashes etc.

BTW just take a look at this forum, there are more problems w/ people using windows period, that can't get something to work, or is doing that, or whatever, hardware/software etc. Granted mac's are not the perfect machine either, but it's more reliable then pc's
 
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