xp 64 bit and ram

[rhythmtech]

everything you've just said is precisely the reason i wouldnt touch one.

bland, non customisable, off the shelf, over priced consumer crap. sorry.

only time i'd get a mac was if someone forced me to choose between it and a dell.. even then i'd have to think about it

[Elvio Neto]

bland, non customisable, off the shelf

with all the respect rhythmtech thats not true

everything you see in OSX can be changed by hand and not by third party softwares like in windows

you even have script creators in OSX to do what ever you need with a simple click , if you are not a advanced programer you can put the software watching what you are doing (for example deleting specific files , open programs , changing settings , audio volumes , empty the trashs, moving files etc) and then record that to a simple file... now everytime you click that file he will make all the actions you have done automatically (you can even preset that to be done everytime you boot OSX)

another example:

windows use .exe executable files format , its impossible to personalize or change the code inside becouse is packed and over packed to hide everything

in osx if you click expand in the icon of one aplication you can see a bunch of text files inside (thats the code of the aplication) you are free to change everything if you have skills for that

finally if you install third party applications to customise osx you cant imagine the things you can do

im sounding like a MAC fanboy but im not i love windows too (i use ms-windows and ms-dos since my 6 years old)

lets face the facts the professionals use MAC they dont have time to find patches to broken stuff they pay for , they need to work and not troubles or security problems and privacy invasions , nobody knows what you do on a MAC but in windows everything you install use or navigate on internet is monitored (that why all the spam in microsoft emails) this system files can be deleted by third party softwares in some cases

many Microsoft Windows stuff is based on Unix ideas (Linux and OSX) and they ask big amounts of money for that (its the price of one computer to be true)

on the other side OSX doenst have copy protections and the last versions always cost 20 euros (you already paid for your computer you dont need to pay much more to start using him or to update the OS to a new version)

i enter in mac world becouse of Logic pro there is nothing like him to make music in my opinion , but since i start exploring and knowing more about OSX im really thinking in one day to buy a real mac just to support the work of this people

the only limitations i found in OSX is gaming but that is changing every day , the big releases now are starting to have a mac version too

[rhythmtech]

i was talking about the hardware. i agree its software is most definitly ahead of windows xp.