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

[boze]

i think the virus comment would be better coming from someone who used a pc and thought it had a negative effect than from someone who doesn't have first hand experience with keeping a windoze box virus free. it's true that folks don't bother writing virus's for osx, but it's not like running windoze amounts to some super high risk or anything. you could just as easily have deleted your home directory in osx as get hacked through some m$ security hole. osx comes out with 10.2.8 and suddenly folks can't use ethernet connections and the update gets recalled. that sounds like a windoze story but it's not.

anyway- no offense, i tend to be too wordy about this stuff.

macs and PCs are both great. osx is just about grown up starting tomorrow with panther and xp is solid as well. the worst is over as far as waiting for plugins and instruments to be released for osx, but xp has everything running for it already since it didn't spend the past three years rewriting dos or whatever (who knows if longhorn will do to pc plugins what osx did to mac plugins?).

if you're looking for a laptop, the iBooks just got way more attractive for audio ppl. check the applestore for details- they all have G4s now.

generally speaking, if you have any sort of budget you can get a quality pc and still have more money left over for the other gear that goes into home recording than if you bought a G4 or G5 desktop. also, G5s aren't the best value right now unless you can afford the dual processor one for $3000us. it's better to buy a mac desktop when the sweetspot for value isn't the top of the line. like when the G4s first went over so they were all dualprocessor and suddenly the 867 was a dual867 for the same price.

sorry this is so stream-of-consciousness. i just got back from a bikeride and it was cold and i'm feeling sort of funny.

good luck!

This post has been edited by boze: Fri 24 Oct 2003, 01:26