 Powerbook Cost Justified? |
 Thu 3 Feb 2005, 15:19
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It has finally come time for me to upgrade my hardware. I have been currently been using an old PIII 500mHz with 512Meg of ram and a slow hard disk. I use Tracktion for my host and with a lot track freezing, it becomes somewhat usabe (but just barely)...
Up until recently I had been considering staying on the Windows side, but with the recent introduction of the Mac Mini I decided to take a more serious look at what Apple could offer, so I've tried to do a bit of comparison. I'm committed to purchasing a notebook and I tried to target $2500 (Cdn) for cost. This is what I have come up with... On the Apple side: Powerbook G4 combo drive 15.2-inch TFT Display 1280x854 resolution 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 512MB DDR333 SDRAM 80GB 5400rpm Hard Drive ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (64 MB DDR) Backlit keyboard Gigabit Ethernet FireWire 400 & 800 Analog audio in/out DVI & S-Video out Cost is $2499 (cdn) On the PC side: Dell Inspiron 9200 Intel® Pentium® M 755 Processor (2GHz/400MHz FSB) 17" ultrawide xga+ 1 gig sdr ram 128MB ATI's™ Mobility Radeon™ 9700 24X CD-RW/DVD Combination Drive 60GB 7200rpm Hard Drive I might be wrong on this, but it seems to me that from a performance perspective, Dell would be the better option. In addition, there seems to be a greater number of low cost / free plugins for thw Windows side verses the Mac side (but I might be totally wron with respect to this as my experiience to date has been solely limited to the PC side). I am really trying to justify the move to Mac but its been a difficult journey. Hopefully this forum can help provide me with some added insight. Thanks. |
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 Sat 5 Feb 2005, 00:24
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IMO it all ends up with what you feel better with. I have been an Apple user since 1990. My studio machine is still one Apple G4 DP1.25 but I have to tell you a couple of things:
1) stability is a hoax, both platforms have their quirks and presently with OSX I find more problems in Macs than on PCs (read windows is a much more mature OS...count the successive updates of Panther 10.3.X)...and before it works they talk about Tiger (10.4.X) and then about this and that... I am really very sceptical about this all Apple attitude and even costumer support... 2) OSX is IMO a real mess, its nor meat nor fish...meaning it is not the old simple and efficient MACOS (read up to OS9...that I still use daily and prefer it to the OSX by very far), nor is it a windows (XP or 2000) platform...it falls somewhere in the middle and surpassing both in many areas but force you to the mind set of a Windows user with unnecessary complexity to things that should be simple...authorize this and that, and password to delete this and that...what a complete crappy mess... 3) Yes its true you have more of everything on the PC side...also more options on hardware...and more headaches when tuning a system, but don't expect much less problems to fine tune one OSX station  4) I do believe that Apple powerbooks are way to much expensive for what they offer... This is the opinion of an "old" Apple user (RIP StudioVision Pro and great midi timming) and currently using both platforms... but still I would not be able to tell u that, given the chance, I would exchange my studio Mac setup for a PC one, as for me midi and audio on computers has always been Apple so old habbits dye hard...this is also probably true with OSX...that I trully hate!!!! |
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darcyb62 Powerbook Cost Justified? Thu 3 Feb 2005, 15:19
Dustan Hi! There...
It's always hard to compare ... Thu 3 Feb 2005, 16:47 darcyb62 Thanks for the response Dustan... Stability is on... Thu 3 Feb 2005, 17:36 editbrain apple customer care is not really nice to there us... Fri 4 Feb 2005, 07:44 mfroman I bought my first PowerBook back in 2000, after af... Fri 4 Feb 2005, 22:31 lepetitmartien Peabreu, are you saying that FreeBSD is not a matu... Sat 5 Feb 2005, 01:14 jeffca The biggest reason you buy an Apple laptop is buil... Sat 5 Feb 2005, 05:50 Narayan Hi, I have been using PC and a music composer who ... Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:51 editbrain Jeffca,
I own a 12" powerbook 867mhz, and a d... Mon 28 Feb 2005, 04:47 simmac Hi Narayan
I used the PC for 10 years and about 2... Tue 1 Mar 2005, 17:13 Narayan Hi Simmac,
Thanks for the encouragement. Still I a... Wed 2 Mar 2005, 18:17 citypigeon hi,
Its capturing the incoming analog audio thats... Wed 2 Mar 2005, 18:51 midnitremedy Hi my name is Jeremy (email midniteremedy@gmail.co... Thu 3 Mar 2005, 05:19 simmac Hi Narayan
So,if you don't work with audio re... Fri 4 Mar 2005, 01:05 Narayan Hi Simmac,
Thanks for clearing my doubts. Yes, I... Fri 4 Mar 2005, 09:08 simmac Hi Narayan
You are right.You know everything is p... Sat 5 Mar 2005, 11:32 GitGeezer 20-year Win-to-OSX switcher comments:
I switched ... Mon 7 Mar 2005, 08:16 cludinsk QUOTE Powerbook vs. G5: in 2 years my one-notch-un... Mon 7 Mar 2005, 21:26
GitGeezer Quite correct. When I bought the TiBook I decided... Tue 8 Mar 2005, 05:48 |
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