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Posted: **Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:36 pm**

ProLife wrote: The Mac mini tends to be too weak for production.

Bullshit dude!

I have a mac mini now and it's great for production.

Posted: **Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:53 pm**

crytek wrote:
ProLife wrote: The Mac mini tends to be too weak for production.
Bullshit dude!

I have a mac mini now and it's great for production.

maybe u just fail at production?

oj...

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:39 am**

Renoise in full screen mode.

Dont matter what OS you use then...

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:05 pm**

imac+logic pro 8, been using this for the last year and never experienced any kind of problems. to be honest i wouldn't go back to using a pc in the future but i guess some people will prefer PCs and some people will prefer macs. end of.

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:45 pm**

ProLife wrote:
D+ wrote:How much would I be looking at for a decent mac with logic and all the trimmings? Around £800? Would you guys suggest I went for a laptop or desktop mac? I usually leave my PC on all night downloading/uploading or just generally sitting there eating up power! Is this possible with a mac laptop?

Any ex PC users who moved onto Mac able to outline the pro's and cons?
If you want a decent iMac with Logic 8, your looking at around 1200 or there abouts.
The Mac mini tends to be too weak for production.
The iMac is a good choice because it's ok for producing and what not, it still has firewire, bigger screen etc.
The new Macbooks would still be powerful enough, though I'd upgrade the RAM, the screen is smaller, it lacks firewire but its portable. I know a couple people with Macbooks who never turn it off, just put it to sleep.

I use both PC w/Vista and Mac and must say I love the Mac far more.

a basic macbook with a 320GB harddisk and 2GB of RAM will set you back about 800 quid. if you can get a student to buy logic for you then it'll be £118.

i upgraded to this system earlier this year and its been great. the basic macbooks still have firewire, for what it's worth, and it's powerful enough (but i don't use massive, albino etc etc)

Posted: **Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:03 am**

i went from pc to mac and never looked back

Posted: **Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:55 pm**

ChronicNate wrote:i went from pc to mac and never looked back

+1.

Posted: **Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:04 am**

macs are better but i use a PC to produce. one day i will, again, have a mac.

i terms of the "best" software, it's really relative to how your mind works. i use Ableton live and find it suits me best. others use Reason or Logic or FL Studio. try them all and see what works best.

Posted: **Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:15 am**

I was on the scoring stage at Universal studios today. Of course, they were running Cubase and Reason on a bunch of fucking Dells.

Posted: **Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:51 am**

either one is good, either one can do whatever you want. its just a personal preference. but don't believe the mac hype that they can't get virus's and works perfectly for everything.

and always RTFM

Posted: **Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:41 pm**

I don't have the money for a mac, otherwise I would buy one. Strictly for production. The only thing that pisses me off about MACs is the zero amount of gaming you can do on it. So therefore I will always have a PC in my house. But I would get a MAC for production no question. For now I am settling on my duel core 2.5GHZ HP laptop that smokes along quite well thank you.

Posted: **Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:15 pm**

Ben Freeman wrote:The only thing that pisses me off about MACs is the zero amount of gaming you can do on it.

that's the best thing! one less thing to piss my time away with

Posted: **Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:23 pm**

The thing that I don't like about mac, is the lack of legacy support. Once your shit is phased out, don't expect any updates from your machine. They stopped updating java for no intel folks. Last java version was 5.xxx You either just have to use it until it's crapped out or just start saving up for another one.

Posted: **Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:33 pm**

do macs still come out with buggy OS updates every couple of months? causing programs to start messing up until the software developers make they're own updates for the new OS and mac Updates their update so its not buggy anymore?

Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:46 am**

macs are serious business, that's why there's no games

Posted: **Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:09 pm**

Logic is the bees knees. I use a LOT of image, video, web, audio and 3D software and Logic is my favourite by far! Learn your shortkeys though... and get a mighty mouse for hours of sidescrolling pleasure.

Steve smells better than Bill.

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:08 pm**

Did you guys who don't have the money for a mac pro miss my post? Build your own mac. If you have even a little computer skills you can get OS X running on your pc no problem. Retail copy of Logic installs without a hitch.

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:12 pm**

big macs are bad for your health :teeth:

Posted: **Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:54 am**

I really have a huge problems with people who insist Macs are the best because they have no viruses blah blah blah.
Has your Mac ever crashed, Has your PC crashed etc.

Tbh stfu.
It only takes a real idiot to get a virus or some kind of problem with your computer. As long as you know what you're doing and don't do stupid shit with your computer it's going to be perfectly fine.