 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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Wed 2 Mar 2005, 18:51
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hi,
Its capturing the incoming analog audio thats most important because once its in, its not likely to go back out until you've put it onto a CD - which means the analog outs will only be used for connecting speakers/headphones rather than recording mixdowns. So if you just use software you can get by with just the mac audio without it making any difference in sound quality I would say the audio interface on the mac is comparable to a soundcard of about £50 to £100 in quality, but obviously the connectors are limited to minijacks. I'm waiting to upgrade my MOTU PCI324 card to the 424 so i can get my 2408 back up and running. Meanwhile i'm getting by with the standard mac I/O fine |
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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 peabreu IMO it all ends up with what you feel better with.... Sat 5 Feb 2005, 00:24 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 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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