WHAT KIND OF COMPUTER DO YOU RECOMMEND FOR A STUDIO??

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CHAPO GUZMAN

CHAPO GUZMAN

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mac is good for photographic design/ video production and music.. but if youre ona budget, get yourself a pc with windows, my shit is an amd 3000+ 1gb of ram, 700gb hardrive raided. it runs shit fine. No lags, i spent 237.00 to upgrade my computer. I suggest ordering parts off newegg.com to upgrade your computer.
 
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Ive heard Macs run smoother for recording but I dont have much experience using them. I say buy whatever your most comfortable using.
 
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This has been discussed before and my opinion hasn't changed since the last time. You can easily build a rock solid pc with better performance and at less the cost of a Mac. These days the pc is a serious contender. So much that companies like Digi-Design have been forced to adapt their products to work with them or lose even more of the market.
 
BOOBOO619

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I would definitely go with a Windows PC. I would probably run Windows XP though rather than Vista. Cheaper and a lot is availiable for PCs. Don't Macs run on INTEL chips now anyways?

Now the question should be, should I go with Intel or AMD? Now I truely don't know the answer to that question, I got an Intel Pentium 4 running at 3.2GHZ.
 
HERESY

HERESY

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My preference is a pc. I use one in my lab and it works flawlessly. I've never had any problems with my computer, it was custom made according to digi design specs, and I love it.

You will have MORE options (as far as plugins) if you go with a PC.
 
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Vince V.

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if you go the PC route, just don't hook that bad boy up to the internet.
It's a bad idea! After I did that, my shit was freezin, runnin hella slow, all kinds of shit.
I switched to mac a while back so maybe it's different now, but if I had to do it again I'd still get a mac if you got the bread
 
SuiPSYedKing

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Vince V. said:
if you go the PC route, just don't hook that bad boy up to the internet.
It's a bad idea! After I did that, my shit was freezin, runnin hella slow, all kinds of shit.
I switched to mac a while back so maybe it's different now, but if I had to do it again I'd still get a mac if you got the bread
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This is true you shouldn't hook any computer to the net, if you serious about the data on it.
 
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99.9% of all viruses, spyware, trojans etc are written on pcs and won't hurt a mac what so ever. If you have the extra cash and a little patience to figure out the os (its not hard windows is pretty much modeled of of it anyways) i'd go that route
 
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There are viruses for mac too, just not nearly as many. And unless you plan on going to porn sites, software crack sites, etc., then you wouldn't have much to worry about. I've got a couple studio computers connected to the internet and in the years they've been online, haven't had a single problem. You can also run software to block 99.9% of that stuff.

There's no way I'd waste my money on a mac these days unless I absolutely had to. It's reign in the pro-audio world is over.
 
CHAPO GUZMAN

CHAPO GUZMAN

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BOOBOO619 said:
I would definitely go with a Windows PC. I would probably run Windows XP though rather than Vista. Cheaper and a lot is availiable for PCs. Don't Macs run on INTEL chips now anyways?

Now the question should be, should I go with Intel or AMD? Now I truely don't know the answer to that question, I got an Intel Pentium 4 running at 3.2GHZ.
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intel is more expensive than amd, id go amd because you get the same performance for cheaper.
 
HERESY

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Sick Wid It said:
There are viruses for mac too, just not nearly as many. And unless you plan on going to porn sites, software crack sites, etc., then you wouldn't have much to worry about. I've got a couple studio computers connected to the internet and in the years they've been online, haven't had a single problem. You can also run software to block 99.9% of that stuff.

There's no way I'd waste my money on a mac these days unless I absolutely had to. It's reign in the pro-audio world is over.
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I have two computers in the lab and both are dedicated machines. One is dedicated for music and the other is dedicated for internet. If I need to transfer files between the two I have my external drives, recordable media and a little 1 gig drive.

And yes, the mac's reign in the pro-audio world is over.
 
CHAPO GUZMAN

CHAPO GUZMAN

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for the price of a nice stock mac computer.. i could build a mega fuckin machine.. with a terrabyte of space or more.. 4-6 gigs of ram.. new nvidia video card, 22 inch widescreen monitor, AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0GHz dual core status. It would be like the speed of 5 mac computers combined.
 
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Vince V.

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discuss650 said:
for the price of a nice stock mac computer.. i could build a mega fuckin machine.. with a terrabyte of space or more.. 4-6 gigs of ram.. new nvidia video card, 22 inch widescreen monitor, AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0GHz dual core status. It would be like the speed of 5 mac computers combined.
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And for the price of a Ferrari you can build a Chevy that would eat it up, but who cares...It aint a Ferrari!

Get a Mac - The Ferrari of digital recording.
haha!
 
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