I has a confession. [rant]

[Berni]

its easy to hate...harder to love...
Can anybody get the RTAS VC OS3 working reliably on any platform?

[7G]

Well, things are simple....

Get yourself a PC desktop and a Mac Laptop to have the best of both worlds...
Why's that?

Desktops:

PC:If i want to upgarde my desktop i would change only motherboard,proccesor and memory.
Mac:You have to sell the godamn thing

Laptops:

PC:The issue here is built quality.Most PC laptops have shitty quality
Mac:Excellent quality and design-i really like the lightning apple on a dark club...you f#$%g poser..hehehe

[annikk.exe]

To be fair, +1 on that.
I don't buy laptops because I hate Macs and it's excessively difficult to build your own (PC-based) laptop.

I r mechanic. =)


-Annikk

[LivePsy]

Originally Posted by 7G

Laptops:

PC:The issue here is built quality.Most PC laptops have shitty quality
Mac:Excellent quality and design-i really like the lightning apple on a dark club...you f#$%g poser..hehehe

I agree with the Mac comments. Poser or not, I bought a Macbook Pro not a Mac if you know what I mean. The notebooks are built and perform very well. I didn't buy it for the OS.

How many posers cover the Apple logo with gaffa tape? And how many posers cover a Roland logo with gaffa tape? Yeah, you're right, its embarassing to be seen with a Roland

Cheers,
B

[XLR8A]

The only people in this thread who completely missing the point, are the ones who still can't understand why couple of years ago "PC vs Mac" arguments became more irrelevant and pointless than ever before. Hint: It's not "Apples vs Oranges" anymore, it's "Oranges vs Oranges" now.

[teethofgold]

Originally Posted by XLR8A

The only people in this thread who completely missing the point, are the ones who still can't understand why couple of years ago "PC vs Mac" arguments became more irrelevant and pointless than ever before. Hint: It's not "Apples vs Oranges" anymore, it's "Oranges vs Oranges" now.

that's not true... as one is an integrated platform (hardware/software) and the other is software that is meant to run on a million hardware configurations.

with apple you pay a premium for a more streamlined user experience and increased reliability... with PCs you are able to take advantage of a highly competitive market to get excellent prices and magnitudes more software choices... but there are drawbacks as well... such as conflicts, viruses, and general complexity in the system.

[hdruxpin]

Hey Annik. If you hate the fact you cant build a Mac how you want it, or teak it................ thats not true.

I love my Hackintosh. Dual boots windows 7, and OSX 10.5.7
And I can overclock, watercool, bla bla bla. Does everything I want. The problem is ME

It is ME, that always wants something new (Gear Lust), it is ME that spends so much money, but not enough time. I dont write enough music, just cant spend more than 30 mins without getting bored lately.

Fuck this I hate MAC, or I hate PC. I HATE ME !

[XLR8A]

Originally Posted by teethofgold

that's not true... as one is an integrated platform (hardware/software) and the other is software that is meant to run on a million hardware configurations.

with apple you pay a premium for a more streamlined user experience and increased reliability... with PCs you are able to take advantage of a highly competitive market to get excellent prices and magnitudes more software choices... but there are drawbacks as well... such as conflicts, viruses, and general complexity in the system.

There's no integrated platform bullshit or anything, because this is not OS9 anymore this is Unix. Today you can run Win on a Mac as easily as you can run OSX on a PC, technically Apple just selling you regular PC's with a shiny Apple logo on them. If you open your "Mac" to take a look if i'm right or wrong - you'll be very disappointed to find regular average PC components inside, and not of the best quality btw (except two models only: Mac Pro and MacBook Pro) because they're the only ones that built from PC components slightly above the average. Shortly, Apple selling ridiculously overpriced PC computers and people are afraid to realize this because of how embarrassing it is for a mac zealot to find out something like this. Some Mac users have already figured this out, so now they're embarrassed to admit it or even believe what they saw. This is amazingly hilarious, and the funniest thing that there's nothing really new about this and it's been like that for couple of years already.

[LivePsy]

Originally Posted by XLR8A

This is amazingly hilarious, and the funniest thing that there's nothing really new about this and it's been like that for couple of years already.

Yes very funny. Unfortunately for me, I viewed the Macbook Pro as the best hardware platform out there - not on price but on a mix of features (the utilmate spec for every component isn't always the best). And while I was at it I also chose to use OS X for music in the studio instead of XP and Vista around the rest of the house. So of course I am branded as an idiot and constantly laughed at.

Its not quite as black and white as pc=smart, Mac=stupid. The price is an interesting issue. All PC's would be priced around Mac prices if it wasn't for the intense competition. But this competition doesn't give you cheaper computers, they give you less and pretend its a workable computer. Not enough ram, you've-got-to-be-kidding low notebook cpu power, machines which take 10 minutes to boot. You really have to spend close to a macbook pro to get sensible power. Personally the only notebook to have these days is the latest Vaio GW series, second choise could be Macbook Pro. IMO all others are crippled to a price point.

Oops, got a bit more carried away then I expected.

B