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Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by eops » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:44 am

So after a decade of PC loving fun a lightening strike killed my desktop (it didnt actually strike it directly you understand - that would have been much more exciting) ... anyway apart from losing a couple of my latest tunes the rest was backed up ...

BUT it made me think "Fuck it - Im going to get a mac pro" and lo I did.

Now everyone always shouts 'mac mac mac' on hardware discussions and I'm normally on the PC side ... well now I have become 'one of them'.

So what is so great eh? What special tricks do I need to know about? What don't work in comparison to PCs?

It is shiny and pretty but tell musical massive where is the joy at? Mac users eulogise PC haters make me regret it!

Closing windows on the left hand side is already making me feel dizzy.
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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by Sinus Sawtooth » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:52 am

Best trick I know is to get to the highest building, climb on to the roof, drop the said macbook, walk down (like a gentleman), unzip your pants, aim your buttocks over the debris, start defecating over the remains of the macbook, then collect it, put it in a nice little box and mail it back to Apple with a little note which says "POOPBOOK"

then buy a PC

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Post by eops » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:57 am

Sinus Sawtooth wrote:Best trick I know is to get to the highest building, climb on to the roof, drop the said macbook, walk down (like a gentleman), unzip your pants, aim your buttocks over the debris, start defecating over the remains of the macbook, then collect it, put it in a nice little box and mail it back to Apple with a little note which says "POOPBOOK"

then buy a PC
Great start ... but dont hold back tell me what you really think!

I particularly like the appendage "walk down (like a gentleman)" in a prelude to taking a dump on the public highway - classy :t:
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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by Sinus Sawtooth » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:07 am

eops wrote:
Sinus Sawtooth wrote:Best trick I know is to get to the highest building, climb on to the roof, drop the said macbook, walk down (like a gentleman), unzip your pants, aim your buttocks over the debris, start defecating over the remains of the macbook, then collect it, put it in a nice little box and mail it back to Apple with a little note which says "POOPBOOK"

then buy a PC
Great start ... but dont hold back tell me what you really think!

I particularly like the appendage "walk down (like a gentleman)" in a prelude to taking a dump on the public highway - classy :t:
well, tbh, I gigged once with a MacBook, doing an ableton live set, MacBook crashed after 20 minutes... go go apple! Now im running a highly tweaked version of XP which never let me down, but thats not a real answer to your original query, the fact is, I am a very bored young man at work now craving for some forum action


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What you could do is run windows 7 on the MacBook, my colleague has done that and DAMN!

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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by eops » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:31 am

I still intend to compose on my PC desktop cos I have so many lil plug ins and shiz for PC but I will then bounce down to audio for live sets played on the mac.
Sounds like that mac infallibility dont really hold water with your experience!
Which is a shame as that is the lie/line that hooked me O_o
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Post by Depone » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:33 am

yeah man i would get the best of both worlds. Use bootcamp utility and create a PC partition on you HD while its fresh.
You can run XP/Vista/Windows 7 natively on any new mac hardware. very useful!

tbh, im not sure what 'tricks' you were expecting. they do the same things in different ways.
Personally I use a Mac and love its stability and OS speed. Not crashed in months...

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Post by eops » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:41 am

Depone wrote:yeah man i would get the best of both worlds. Use bootcamp utility and create a PC partition on you HD while its fresh.
You can run XP/Vista/Windows 7 natively on any new mac hardware. very useful!

tbh, im not sure what 'tricks' you were expecting. they do the same things in different ways.
Personally I use a Mac and love its stability and OS speed. Not crashed in months...
Im not sure what tips and tricks there are either ... hence the question.

Glad you had good stability with a mac - thats the big thing for live stuff ... might try out that bootcamp cos Id like to use some plug ins that Im used to having on the mac - does it really run XP etc that well? I always assumed it would be less than stella.
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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by Sinus Sawtooth » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:00 am

eops wrote:
- does it really run XP etc that well? I always assumed it would be less than stella.

It runs like an Alpaca on meth (in the positive way)

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Post by Depone » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:18 am

eops wrote:
Depone wrote:yeah man i would get the best of both worlds. Use bootcamp utility and create a PC partition on you HD while its fresh.
You can run XP/Vista/Windows 7 natively on any new mac hardware. very useful!

tbh, im not sure what 'tricks' you were expecting. they do the same things in different ways.
Personally I use a Mac and love its stability and OS speed. Not crashed in months...
Im not sure what tips and tricks there are either ... hence the question.

Glad you had good stability with a mac - thats the big thing for live stuff ... might try out that bootcamp cos Id like to use some plug ins that Im used to having on the mac - does it really run XP etc that well? I always assumed it would be less than stella.
im running windows 7 as smooth as man. Before that I had Win XP. Both run flawless, Apple even give you the drivers for your mac hardware to use with windows in your OSX install DVD. Print n read the instructions. Its well worth it!!!

PS: just to make it clear, theres no emulation going on. Its stright up native shit like you would have a PC laptop

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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by eops » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:28 am

Now that is a good tip/trick

I really wouldnt have imagined that it was that good. *likes*
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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by Xavy » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:34 am

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it already...

The ability to use Logic?

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Post by wayoftheworld » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:37 am

eops wrote:BUT it made me think "Fuck it - Im going to get a mac pro" and lo I did.
hate to say it, but apple is about to refresh their macbook pro lineup
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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by eops » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:58 am

wayoftheworld wrote:
eops wrote:BUT it made me think "Fuck it - Im going to get a mac pro" and lo I did.
hate to say it, but apple is about to refresh their macbook pro lineup
Yeah it was a consideration but I need to act when the moment takes me or shit never happens.

I had been mulling over a new laptop choice for AGES - when all else fails be impulsive (does that even make sense?)

As long as what I got works good - Im happy.
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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by wayoftheworld » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:04 am

i'm about to buy a mbp as soon as the refresh is out, the hd in my acer laptop finally crashed after 3-4 years. tho still debating on whether i should get a macbook or pro
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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by damagedgoods » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:22 am

Don't get me wrong, I love my MBP. But for fuck's sake, if you ever gig it out, tape up the goddamn apple logo.

(That's my number 1 apple tip)

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Post by lazermouse » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:49 am

damagedgoods wrote:Don't get me wrong, I love my MBP. But for fuck's sake, if you ever gig it out, tape up the goddamn apple logo.
Or you can do something cool with it...http://www.etsy.com/shop/coolskins?section_id=6925780

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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by damagedgoods » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:57 am

lazermouse wrote:
damagedgoods wrote:Don't get me wrong, I love my MBP. But for fuck's sake, if you ever gig it out, tape up the goddamn apple logo.
Or you can do something cool with it...http://www.etsy.com/shop/coolskins?section_id=6925780
I saw a Goatse macbook sticker once. It was pretty funny. I'd find you the link but I'm at work...

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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by lazermouse » Mon Apr 12, 2010 12:23 pm

damagedgoods wrote:
lazermouse wrote:
damagedgoods wrote:Don't get me wrong, I love my MBP. But for fuck's sake, if you ever gig it out, tape up the goddamn apple logo.
Or you can do something cool with it...http://www.etsy.com/shop/coolskins?section_id=6925780
I saw a Goatse macbook sticker once. It was pretty funny. I'd find you the link but I'm at work...
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?re ... d=41217204
:lol:

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Re: Mac Book Pro Music-tips & tricks

Post by eops » Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:50 pm

After thinking about what you guys said RE the new range of mac books it began to annoy me that the salesman guy never once mentioned that there would be a new range of mac pros coming out (I knew there were rumours but didnt know what the date was) - Anyway I got thinking "Thats a bit shit!" :i:

So I went into Apple store today and KICKED OFF!

Result Eops 2- Apple 1 (AET)

I get to upgrade to the new mac tomorrow - once agai the mighty DSF helps me out - thanks all!
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Post by Matt_Damage » Wed Apr 14, 2010 1:00 pm

Nice! Thats an absolute result mate =D
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