ocularsinister ([info]ocularsinister) wrote,
@ 2007-03-28 15:21:00
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Current location:Work
Current mood: avaricious
Current music:Depeche Mode Remixes
Entry tags:powerbook, technolust

Quick Poll
I need an Apple PowerBook.

But why?

Suggestions below!


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[info]strawpig
2007-03-28 02:30 pm UTC (link)
1) Shiny!
2) Logic
3) They just work.
4) All the cool kids have them.
5) Why not?

and some reasons against

1) Those adverts with Mitchell and Webb.
2) You'll find yourself feeling rather smug when people start talking about computer troubles in the way that mac users do
3) Shareware. The mac hobby software community are (with a few notable exceptions, ironically usually the very cream) are money grabbing bastards. Things that should be free often aren't.
4) The initial outlay is not cheap (I could go on about total cost of ownership and things, but the fact still remains that the initial outlay is rather a lot).
5) Logic requires hardware anti piracy stuff and thus hasn't been cracked, and costs a fortune too, so you'll need to shell out for that on top of the powerbooks price.
lots of love
Patrick
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[info]strawpig
2007-03-28 02:32 pm UTC (link)
This reply was bought to you on my Powerbook. So despite being on the pro side of the fence, I am aware of that, and thus to try and be balanced seem to weight the cons more heavily for some reason.
lots of love
Patrick
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[info]ocularsinister
2007-03-28 03:42 pm UTC (link)
Thing is, I'm not doing much music these days so I'm not sure I'd make much use of Logic! I'd be more likely to use the Mac version of Cubase anyway as I'm familiar with it.

Interesting thought though - would it be possible to migrate the Windows Cubase projects to the Mac version somehow?

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[info]strawpig
2007-03-28 06:49 pm UTC (link)
As with most other cross platform apps, the Cubase files are the same format for both macs and PCs, there's a the occasional quirk, but on the whole it works quite well. I'm pretty sure you could also import them into Logic should you so desire ;-)
lots of love
Patrick
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[info]ocularsinister
2007-03-28 03:42 pm UTC (link)
I'm not looking for reasons NOT to buy it! :D

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[info]strawpig
2007-03-28 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Then I can go on about total cost of ownership, this may have cost a few hundred more than my dads (similarly spec'd) work Toshiba, but it's outlasted two of them (One of the things he's looking forward to most about leaving his current job, which is happening in a few weeks is that he'll not have to use said Toshiba any more and can get back to using a mac for most of his work). It still does everything I need it too, with the exception of playing Civ4, but a four year old Windows machine couldn't touch the lastest games either. I can still use Photoshop/Illustrator on it, and it runs better on this than it does on a friends brand new Dell.

They genuinely are easier to use and fall over less often.

Using X11 you can do all sorts of nerdy *IX stuff, due to the BSD core. But only if you want to, otherwise you'd really not know it was there at all.

On the new Intel ones, you can run Windows either natively as a dual boot machine, or in a virtual machine using Parallels, thus eliminating the need for a second machine for the 10% of the time you actually need Windows (I find 10% is about the amount of time I spend using Windows, however, it seems to cause about 90% of my problems), contry to what some die hard mac users will tell you, there are, unfortunately, still times when you do need 'doze.

They're also much prettier than other companies laptops.
lots of love
Patrick
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[info]rfish
2007-03-29 12:25 pm UTC (link)
I'm kinda tempted myself. Could really do with a machine with a lot less latency and one that runs quieter. I'm assume that will be the case with macs because they're supposedly better for music stuff, but in real life, who knows, especially when the hardware is pretty much the same these days anyway?

All the software I use is I think dual format, but the key issue is: Will using a Mac turn me into a smug person?

I mean, have you noticed how a lot of Mac users who know nothing about music automatically assume that if you write music with a computer you use a Mac?

We've got this guy at work who looks like a shorter, more muscular version of Right Said Fred. He's got an extra business he runs on the side training people to do triathlon events, so he uses a Mac basically to run bleedin' Excel. He'd got about 2/3 the IQ of everyone else in the team and he's got a PHD. Mind you, it's in sports science. He's a public schoolboy with a Norf Landen accent. His wife is a surgeon, so basically he doesn't need to work for any other reason than to try to convince her that his life is worthwhile.

And he gets out his Mac at lunch time and fiddles with his spreadsheets and says just to show he's down with the kids, "Oh, did you know there's a new version of Garage Band out."

No I didn't cocking hear. No, I don't cocking care. Cock off you cocking cock.

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