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Re: PC or a Mac?

Postby c0wfunk » 28 Jan 2015, 17:14

This is coming from a linux every day user (java programmer) who grudgingly uses windows when I have to.. just mentioning the words distributions, kernels, and dependencies is plenty to scare off most average users. Linux has grown much more user friendly over the years (been using on and off since the late 90s.. I remember when Red Hat first came out and was to solve all of these problems), but its whole mentality is not for the average user who just wants to turn it on and go for it.
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Re: PC or a Mac?

Postby analogika » 28 Jan 2015, 21:26

I think it is well about time to accept that the Year Of Linux On The Desktop isn't going to happen anymore than it has happened any year since 1998. :)
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Re: PC or a Mac?

Postby analogika » 28 Jan 2015, 21:28

e8ndave wrote:I'm a PC guy by trade but I bought a Mac based on the recommendations of a lot of people in the business. While it isn't quite as great as I expected (there are more updates etc than they would lead you to believe) it is still a great system. Best attribute, stuff pretty much seems to just work. Worst, some of the nitpicky things that are hard to get rid of (getting old equipment out of the Midi manager or deleting various things that refuse to go away).

You're talking about Audio-MIDI Setup?

Click the device and press the "delete" key on your keyboard.

How much simpler would you like it? :wave:
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Re: PC or a Mac?

Postby analogika » 28 Jan 2015, 21:34

shark wrote:
mjbrands wrote:
This video might have some solutions that work for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67lKjOiZbMw

If all else fails, you could just install Windows on the iMac and turn it into a very expensive Windows machine :lol:



Thx, mj done all that but the only thing I want to make bigger is the apple menu bar and its fonts which is impossible and Apple quite arrogantly refuses to upgrade it's os to make it possible. Yeah you can reduce the resolution and thus making everything a bit bigger but also more out of focus, what's the point of having a retina display then? DUH!


The point of a retina display is PRECISELY to make exactly that possible WITHOUT diminishing the displayed quality. You do NOT lose any focus at all.

This has never been possible with any desktop display previously and is due to the fact that Apple doesn't interpolate the "effective" resolution, but actually renders FOUR TIMES the selected resolution (x2 in both dimensions) and interpolates THAT into the retina screen.

The results are completely beyond anything else on the market.

The whole reason behind Apple's retina displays on Macs is that it makes them completely resolution-independent. Scale the screen to whatever you want, and it will still look sharp and crisp beyond what your eye can discern at normal viewing distance.



EDIT 2: It's worth noting that when shark posted the above, the iMac 27" didn't HAVE a retina display. So he was mixing up several things, which is probably why he didn't make any sense. Still, he failed to grasp the concept behind the retina displays extant in MacBooks at the time...
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Re: PC or a Mac?

Postby LucidSamples » 28 Apr 2015, 08:30

i used to use linux for music production and now changed for mac and I have to commit Mac is simply better.
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Re: PC or a Mac?

Postby zzAARzz » 28 Apr 2015, 08:30

Mac
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Re: PC or a Mac?

Postby Ricoche » 12 May 2015, 16:30

Mac without question. Slap Bootcamp on there and you have Windows or anything you desire.
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Re: PC or a Mac?

Postby Gustavo » 02 Jul 2015, 07:48

I'm gonna hijack this old thread just to say that I've got a Surface Pro 3 and it beats any laptop I've ever owned. It has many of the benefits of a regular tablet (it can even run an Android emulator) and you can use full fledged DAWs and VSTs. I fully recommend it to anyone looking for a truly portable computer.
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Re: PC or a Mac?

Postby costaseglezos » 02 Jul 2015, 09:12

Korg or Nord? Nord!
PC or Mac? Mac!

For the same reasons.
They work fluently, they are user friendly, I focus on my work and not on how to do my work.
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Re: PC or a Mac?

Postby neolithic » 02 Jul 2015, 10:30

Gustavo wrote:I'm gonna hijack this old thread just to say that I've got a Surface Pro 3 and it beats any laptop I've ever owned. It has many of the benefits of a regular tablet (it can even run an Android emulator) and you can use full fledged DAWs and VSTs. I fully recommend it to anyone looking for a truly portable computer.


Nice! Touch-screen devices are great for musicians. I expect Apple will eventually release a tablet that runs OSX, then there will be more options and the argument can continue afresh!
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