to mac or not to mac...help!
so the time has come where i must decide whether to beef up my PC or go with a 1.8 ghz imac g5. here are some things to consider:
-my school teaches entirely on macs. pro tools, logic, final cut, shake, reason, and cubase are all a part of the program. having a Mac would allow me to work on my projects at home and at school, giving me one up on my classmates.
-i dont have a huge need for a spectacular soundcard. at least not at this point. the tracks i produce will be played thru a serato scratch live setup, which i hope to get in the next 8 months or so. no super crazy sound quality is needed because none of my tracks will ever get pressed.
-im tired of my device drivers on my PC becoming corrupt. im not sure if this is an issue for mac users, but ive had to format my hard drive 3 times in 6 months for corruption issues, all of which happened after i installed windows security updates.
-this machine will serve as my production machine for the next 2 years. the machine after that will be the most badass comp i can buy at the time, with no expense spared.
with that said, im leaning towards the mac at the moment. any input from you guys would be really helpful.
Re: to mac or not to mac...help!
-my school teaches entirely on macs. pro tools, logic, final cut, shake, reason, and cubase are all a part of the program. having a Mac would allow me to work on my projects at home and at school, giving me one up on my classmates.
Well then you should definitely get one in my eyes. This will help you immensely. It's like if you're a DJ and you have a certain mixer at home - you're much better when you get to the club and use that exact mixer than you would be if it wasn't at home.
-i dont have a huge need for a spectacular soundcard. at least not at this point. the tracks i produce will be played thru a serato scratch live setup, which i hope to get in the next 8 months or so. no super crazy sound quality is needed because none of my tracks will ever get pressed.
Well I use my laptop Mac for producing stuff and at least one of two things were pressed up from just the internal sound card cause my motu went in for repairs. It's not the best output, but it's more than workable.
-im tired of my device drivers on my PC becoming corrupt. im not sure if this is an issue for mac users, but ive had to format my hard drive 3 times in 6 months for corruption issues, all of which happened after i installed windows security updates.
In my experience, Mac is certainly not the stable workhorse it's made out to be by all the Mac devotees. BUT it is a damn site less complicated to get music software up and running and feels much 'cleaner' than a PC in terms of stupid shitty 3rd party drivers that you have to use from crappy graphics card etc companies. If you have to format a MAC cause it goes corrupt, it's up and running for me with a load of music software on in about 2 hours. With a PC it takes all night. 1 BIG tip I'm teeling you is to get a cloning program with whatever platform you choose. For the mac I use Carbon Copy Cloner and/or Superduper, and for the PC I use Paragon Drive Backup.
-this machine will serve as my production machine for the next 2 years. the machine after that will be the most badass comp i can buy at the time, with no expense spared.
Well I'd say Mac. But remember this. If you're into cracked software, the mac is VERY hard to get stuff for. Not impossible, but certainly not easy. But the one this I find is that my studio PC has nearly every plugin going on it and sometimes takes me ages to decide which ones to use, but my Mac is clean and tidy. If you want a certain thing to happen to your sound, you've really got to think properly instead of just bunging a shit load of plugins over the top and hoping for the best. And I really like that way of working.....
Good luck!
