Mac V's Pc Options

I have been using a PC P3 800mhz with cubase SL and I am thinking about making the move to a Mac running logic.
I do not know much about the comparisons in the hardware but is this a better way to go than a new PC

Any thoughts would be helpful

[Synthetic]

ohh... and just to add to the actual topic... when I was working our computer labs... viruses were more of a problem on the PC's than Macs. I only remember dealing with a couple viruses on the 30 macs we had but there was a time when about half of the PC machines were down and sometimes at once. People were bringing 95% of them on floppies from home. Some had installed hacked games and some had just not even known their computer at home was infected and brought in files that that carried the viruses. We used Norton Antivirus eventually and kept them updated... problems went down but there were always a few that Norton didn't catch.

I work at a newspaper... so i read paper daily and MS is constantly in headlines about a new security hole in Windows or another software app they make or about a new worm or virus that attacks Outlook Express or Office and such. I still can only recall once reading about this with Apple OS's maybe twice but once for sure.


And my last reason I own a Mac over a PC is the adding on and upgrading issues. Everything I buy for my mac works with just plug and play and maybe driver installation... no biggie. I have delt with buying "cheaper" drives, modems, and such for PC's only find out they require a computer science graduate to make work with other manufacturer products. I tried to add a 36.6 modem in place of a 14.4 and could never get sound to work right with new modem... had to got back to 14.4 to make it work again. Recently, a friend with a Gateway was ranting and raving about this new CD burner he got for his computer for like $25 new at BestBuy... had it for 2 months and never got it to work right with computer.

This brings to the point of the cost issue. Sometimes you get what you pay for (not always and yes you can find bargains). If you are going to compare an Apple to a PC in price.... at least compare it to a IBM model and not a clone like Dell etc. IBM uses good quality components just as Apple does and actually... their prices are not that much different only maybe just a bit more speedy cpu's now.

Software is same way... there are TONS more software for PC's yes... most of it not worth bothering with unless you are into games... meanwhile the most all the major music apps cost same when made for both systems unless a store is overstocked and has a sale on one cpu version. Most any good app that comes out on the PC is eventually ported to the mac as well.

This post has been edited by Synthetic: Sat 25 Oct 2003, 01:46