looking for some opinions...

[logik]

wud up...
wuz just wondering about the usefullness of a G5...
is it a good investment in terms of producing is concerned?
and ive been a PC user all my life, would a mac be a bitch to learn.. or not...
( and im not computer illiterate, thnx)

anyone that has one, or any experience with one, your advice will be appreciated
thnk u

 

[Producer X]

wud up...
wuz just wondering about the usefullness of a G5...
is it a good investment in terms of producing is concerned?
and ive been a PC user all my life, would a mac be a bitch to learn.. or not...
( and im not computer illiterate, thnx)

anyone that has one, or any experience with one, your advice will be appreciated
thnk u

I use both. I'm more of a mac man because of the ease of use and the power of the processor. I depends on what software you'll be using. The G5 is a very powerful machine. I plan to upgrade to one soon. If you have the cash, it's a serious investment. If you lean towards a PC, make sure you get the specs that are compaibale with your software. Some PC chipsets aren't cool for DAWs. Macs never run into that issue...They just work....

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[J Rilla]

Ditto with producer X, but i will take a stronger opinion and just say go with the G5 if music is your fortay......PCs are put together with numerous parts from different manufactors which is what i have been told causes them to start actin a little strange in later years......All the parts in the G5 are speciffically made for it....making it run quite seemlessly. Just my opinion you though

 

[Formant024]

mac is for pro utilities, a pc is a domestic device....in other words...Mac's the moneymaker, for Audio and graphical exploits.

That numerous parts issue is true, but if you stick to intel inside everything, you'll have much lesser problems.

What I do consider an advantage is OS...I mean, your comparing one engine dealing with a single kernel driver in process to an engine that runns 128 kernel drivers ...gues which one is eager to crash..

 

[x-squizet]

i have no idea you lost me with kernel driver explain please

 

[Formant024]

If windows loses a kernel drives you can be sure to reboot, OSX runns 128 kernel drivers by default , if the running kernel driver fails it will open another one continue processing the same operation. When this happens OS doesn't trust any other kernel driver, so looks for the current best state kerneldriver to follow the one that did die on you. So that pretty solid, in general I've never really heard anyone with a crappy OS...just AU adapters that screw up logic because peeps wanna use VST on their Mac...( It's AU's fault, bad coding and third party software anyway, lotta plugs work though but Waves will cause Logic to crash....who needs waves anyway... ).

 

[x-squizet]

oh ok now i got ya but i heard logic 7 pro has something to stop that now

 

[Formant024]

to stop what ?

 

[x-squizet]

i dont know it has something on it where if you run to many vst's it won't crash something like that

 

[Formant024]

It's a coding issue, mac doesnt run vst, It needs the AU adapter for it, a lotta plugs haven't been correctly coded by the AU dudes and that's why they crash ?

Mind you, on a G5, x 2.5Ghz, 10Gb of Ram you can run a 128 reverbs, record and playback at the same time and it wont crash hehehe.

A pc on the other hand....

 

[Prophet45]

I've been kind of wondering what makes macs so special myslef...I got a customized Ozma Alien computer, and it was the best investment I've ever put my money into! My programs run so smoothly on this computer, and I have enough memory to last me a lifetime! I don't think I'll be getting a Mac, because I personally think my Ozma is more powerful!