Andish
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Please help me. Is the audio quality recorded on a mac of better quality compared to a PC platform?
ez_willis
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Great thread. I'm looking forward to this discussion since there is so very little information regarding the comparison. I can't believe this hasn't come up before.
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guitar486
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There's not going to be any difference in audio quality...just cpu performance. IMO Mac wins there.
ez_willis
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Okay, we have one mac user that's checked in. Can we get a pc user to tell mac guy that he overpayed for his computer?
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robn
A Muse Zen
guitar486,
You probably overpaid for your Mac
ez_willis, feel better?
You probably overpaid for your Mac
ez_willis, feel better?
ez_willis
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guitar486,
You probably overpayed for your Mac
ez_willis, feel better?
I'll feel better when mac guys fires back about MS updates, viruses, stability issues, etc.
Come on mac guy, don't let me down.
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robn
A Muse Zen
That's OK, I'm already polishing up my "limited software available for Mac" argument 
gcapel
boom box recordings
You can get a great PC for way less.
I love my IPOD though! I have an alpine car reciever that has the ipod interface. It kicks butt. The operator interface is done through the receiver. I will go months without re sync'ing new music.
Back to PC vs Mac.
I love my IPOD though! I have an alpine car reciever that has the ipod interface. It kicks butt. The operator interface is done through the receiver. I will go months without re sync'ing new music.
Back to PC vs Mac.
legionserial
New member
I basically got a PC and Mac, and put them in an intrinsic field centre, where they were merged at a molecular level, and it pwns all of your computers.
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guitar486
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The bottom line is it comes down to personal preference. If you don't care about all the virus's, useless updates, insane startup times, having to restart everytime you update ANYTHING, and dealing with the worlds biggest ball of string than sure go PC. And on the mac side, if you don't care about the higher initial investment and are ok with not having to upgrade the living shiet out of it after you buy it to even get it functional with modern applications than well....I think I've made my stance clear.
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guitar486
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Oh, and one more reason a mac is better for audio work:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375?viewlocale=en_US
ez_willis
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come on PC guy, are you gonna just lay there and take that?
gcapel
boom box recordings
I don't know if you ever heard the term "Mac-N-Trash"
Yonce N Mild
Voice of Sanity
My friend once compared his shiny new macbook to having a beautiful girlfriend that you just want to punch in the face.
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
Find the software app that you like...and then get the hardware that it runs best on.
Sometimes Mac...sometimes PC....
Sometimes Mac...sometimes PC....
Bristol Posse
Okey Dokey
It basically comes down to which software and OS you like better.
PC is an open hardware platform with millions of possible configurations and an open software development forum that is used by thousands of third parties with masses and masses of available software. this comes at the cost of guaranteed stability
Mac is a closed Platform with very limited configuration tightly controlled by apple with great stability/compatability at the cost of broader configuarability an the ability to be on the bleeding edge of hardware developments and a software development policy that is closed to many third parties
Mac is generally well executed for audio because of component choice but still uses the same intel chips and chipsets(all though a smaller range) that are used for PC, Motherboards are manufactured by the same companies that make PC Boards ASUS makes a lot of them at the moment I think. The generation of Mac Books before the current offering would be the major, glaring exception to that rule where they were built without Fire Wire for some strange reason. that has been fixed in the current Mac Book configuration.
A PC can be configured to be just as well executed (and infact if you want can have exactly the same components as a Mac if you do your research)
Mac doesn't really make a standard Desktop PC. Imacs are essentially laptops built into a big screen (they use laptop chips/ Motherboards which is why quad core isn't available on an iMac yet when PC desktops in the same price range have had core 2 quad for years and now i7 for a long time) Some will say yeah Mac Pro but that is built around a server motherboard and CPU/RAM and is not priced to sell to the casual home user, The entry level model is over $2k
Both PC and Mac are very good at some things and terrible at others and mainly it comes down to what you like.
Also that you don't have to update a Mac is BS. Many of us who own macs are getting ready for an OS upgrade to Snow Leopard and are very, very nervous about it. The upgrade from Logic Pro 8 - 9 took more than 3 hours and is still rather buggy.
I expect the upgrade from XP/Vista to Windows 7 to be just as nerve racking on my PCs
Audio is just 1 and 0s once it gets into the machine (whichever you choose) and will not be any different in quality.
Pick your poison based on what you like and don't worry if someone else like a different platform better
PC is an open hardware platform with millions of possible configurations and an open software development forum that is used by thousands of third parties with masses and masses of available software. this comes at the cost of guaranteed stability
Mac is a closed Platform with very limited configuration tightly controlled by apple with great stability/compatability at the cost of broader configuarability an the ability to be on the bleeding edge of hardware developments and a software development policy that is closed to many third parties
Mac is generally well executed for audio because of component choice but still uses the same intel chips and chipsets(all though a smaller range) that are used for PC, Motherboards are manufactured by the same companies that make PC Boards ASUS makes a lot of them at the moment I think. The generation of Mac Books before the current offering would be the major, glaring exception to that rule where they were built without Fire Wire for some strange reason. that has been fixed in the current Mac Book configuration.
A PC can be configured to be just as well executed (and infact if you want can have exactly the same components as a Mac if you do your research)
Mac doesn't really make a standard Desktop PC. Imacs are essentially laptops built into a big screen (they use laptop chips/ Motherboards which is why quad core isn't available on an iMac yet when PC desktops in the same price range have had core 2 quad for years and now i7 for a long time) Some will say yeah Mac Pro but that is built around a server motherboard and CPU/RAM and is not priced to sell to the casual home user, The entry level model is over $2k
Both PC and Mac are very good at some things and terrible at others and mainly it comes down to what you like.
Also that you don't have to update a Mac is BS. Many of us who own macs are getting ready for an OS upgrade to Snow Leopard and are very, very nervous about it. The upgrade from Logic Pro 8 - 9 took more than 3 hours and is still rather buggy.
I expect the upgrade from XP/Vista to Windows 7 to be just as nerve racking on my PCs
Audio is just 1 and 0s once it gets into the machine (whichever you choose) and will not be any different in quality.
Pick your poison based on what you like and don't worry if someone else like a different platform better
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ez_willis
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guys, come on. dude asked a simple question, "Is the audio quality recorded on a mac of better quality compared to a PC platform"?
Just answer him and quit complicating things.
Just answer him and quit complicating things.
WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
I'm a Mac user--actually a former Apple Systems Engineer. There are at least 8 Macs in my house--3 of them fairly "cutting edge." My studio Mac is an eight processor core, 16 GB ram, 4 terabytes HD beast.
I can tell you unequivocally, and without the slightest hesitation: No. The audio quality recorded on a Mac is not better quality than a PC.
Now buy whichever one you like and make some music already.
gcapel
boom box recordings
ez_willis
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that was definitely photoshopped on a pc. I can tell by the dithering.