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    Default Reasons to buy a macbook

    I should also entitle this reasons to run OSX and reasons why the Dual Core CPU's ROCK hard.

    check the amount of shit going. check the CPU usage





    Personally speaking im on the 1.83 dual core.

    Logic Express 7.2

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    Shit sorry about the picture sizes...

    didnt think.

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    *slobber* :lol:
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    do u get scultpture or space designer in logic express? get them running and watch ure mac book have a heart attack.
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    space designer is heavy on cpu, but then most convolution reverb units are. still an ace piece of kit tho

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    Quote Originally Posted by MorePunkThanFunk
    do u get scultpture or space designer in logic express? get them running and watch ure mac book have a heart attack.
    no i dont

    have you seen them running on a macbook pro?

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    Nice,, Dual core rocks it hard, but i expect on PC it wil be more or less same as on Mac with almost similar hw configuaration in both..
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    bloody show off :razz: :lol:
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    Quote Originally Posted by dodgyedgy
    Quote Originally Posted by MorePunkThanFunk
    do u get scultpture or space designer in logic express? get them running and watch ure mac book have a heart attack.
    no i dont

    have you seen them running on a macbook pro?

    no not yet, although i still reckon it'll have trouble running more than 1 sculpture as even the g5 desktops struggle with it, it is a quality synth though
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    The SOS review of these was interesting.

    In a nutshell, they said they were very good - extremely powerful indeed, finally putting top-end Macs
    back on a par with top-end PC laptops.

    However, they said that they had a frightening capacity to run rather hot, even when not at full whack
    (though there was some allusion towards a problem with the thermal paste on the chip, which is solvable
    if you don't mind a bit of DIY), and the battery life was quite poor by comparison. Still, I suppose battery
    life is unlikely to be a problem for most musicians (i.e. you should be able to plug in, really).

    That said, I think I'm still against Macs on principle. Mainly because all Mac users seem so overbearingly
    smug about everything.

    I'm still quite excited about the idea of a totally FOSS (Free / Open Source Software) setup.

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    *Ahem*

    Thanks for that mark.

    As for FOSS.. care to illuminate your comments? what is it?

    And as for being against macs because the users are smug... coming from you mr seavers, thats a grumpy stab in the dark... :lol:

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    Free & Open Source Software is exactly that.

    You download the source code, which you are free to modify and redistribute.

    Linux is a free operating system.

    OpenOffice is a free productivity suite.

    Eclipse is a free IDE.

    Music applications are lagging behind theie commercial cousins somewhat, but there are some signs of progress...

    Ardour is a fully fledged multi-channel DAW, along similar lines to Pro Tools.

    Rosegarden is a MIDI sequencer, like early versions of Cubase or Cakewalk.

    Audacity is a sample editor.

    LADSPA is a plugin architecture like VST.

    Jack is an audio routing subsystem, supported by most Linux / UNIX audio apps, which allows
    you to route audio from one application to another and so forth. As far as I am aware there is no Windows equivalent for
    this.

    PureData is a modular DSP environment like Max/MSP or Reaktor.

    Basically, I like the idea of total freedom from commercial software in making music.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dodgyedgy
    And as for being against macs because the users are smug... coming from you mr seavers, thats a grumpy stab in the dark... :lol:
    Touche.

    It's true though.

    Even the immutable fact that Macs are now just glorified PCs hasn't changed anything...

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    the mac laptops do run very hot, great in the winter although not so good in the summer.

    the free software thing does sound like a good idea but in reality you get what you pay for and most free software is never gonna be as good as its commercial counterpart.

    and the also lets face there is no laptop which looks as good as a mac, the sony ones look ok but other than that pc laptop asthetics are pretty poor.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MorePunkThanFunk
    the free software thing does sound like a good idea but in reality you get what you pay for and most free software is never gonna be as good as its commercial counterpart.
    I disagree.

    We use mainly FOSS stuff here for work (I'm a software engineer).

    Eclipse pisses all over M$ Visual Studio, or any other IDE I've used.

    The music stuff is a bit behind, but it's only a matter of time.

    Besides, the creative potential in stuff like PureData - particularly
    for someone like me who knows how to code - is massive.

 

 

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