Laptop Survey

[Fabiio]

"Toyota Corollas as well."

THISSSS

PC is just as good as MACATTACK

[photojojo]

It's not that Mac's are better it's that they handle audio processing better than PC's with less prep work required by the user. The PC's can handle it fine, but the user usually has to get it ready to do that. When you buy a $300 PC though and expect it to perform as well as a $1000 PC or Mac is when you run into trouble.

[kevinmcdonough]

"Looking around, most people would just say "get a BMW". but I get the feeling that people just say that because everybody else is saying it. BMW's look good on the road and they're nice and shiny but they're expensive and I heard some good things about Toyota Corollas as well."

Haha very clever, but not a fair comparison.

Now prefacing this again by saying i'm NOT a mac fanboy (I use PC's 95% of the time), just a realist. But it would be something like.....

"I wanna buy a new car, and plug this particular super duper new engine part into it (soundcard/controller). Looking around, most people would just say "get a BMW". but I get the feeling that people just say that because everybody else is saying it. BMW's look good on the road and they're nice and shiny but they're expensive and I heard some good things about Toyota Corollas as well.

Now when I look on the forum, there is very rarely any problems with my new engine part all working together and driving awesome in a BMW. However the Toyota Corolla's are actually a group of different cars all made in 7 different factories, all with slightly different parts inside them, some cheepy made and some well made.

While there are lots of people who, really by luck, have gotten the "good" ones and do indeed get everything working no problem, it always seems a bit more of a fight to get it to all work properly and its a bit of a gamble, almost all the stories I read of people having problems come from these Corollas. Should I take the gamble and go for a Corolla and hope that I get one of the good ones that my extra engine part works fine with, or should I pay the extra and go with the BMW that i KNOW will work great and when I turn up to race day (gig) it wont suddenly die on me for no reason and leave me fighting with settings and looking stupid, or possibly even have to pull out of the race all together loosing money and reputation."

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[manchild]

If you want a high spec, proffesional, and durable laptop you have to get a Business Proffesional Notebook, which would be Thinkpads, Toughbooks, Elitebooks, Macbook Pro's etc....

They start at around $1k. You cant compare the regular consumer $300-600 laptops to these (even the $1k + gamer laptops cant compare in build quality).

Take for example my Elitebook; which if you're wondering mine has an Intel quad I7 2860QM 3.6GHz/16GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM/256 GB SSD SATA 6GB/s, they are actually built to military spec and they run it thru a whole mess of crazy tests including running over it w/ cars, dropping it from different heights, running programs while it's placed in an oven, pouring glasses of water on it, blasting sand at it for hours...you get the point

[CionniAsDj]

Simply i suggest a Mac because is simpler to setup, and have very few issue, you don't have to care so much about optimization, is ready to go.
But hey, it costs, obviously a cheaper pc if you use it well and pay attention do the job same way

[Childrenatplay]

I use a dell to dj works fine,Great battery,big screen. - never crashes, but the only thing i hate is when im abelton none of the VMS plug ins work.

[m00n]

It's not that Mac's are better it's that they handle audio processing better than PC's with less prep work required by the user. The PC's can handle it fine, but the user usually has to get it ready to do that. When you buy a $300 PC though and expect it to perform as well as a $1000 PC or Mac is when you run into trouble.

+1

I was raised on PC's, thats where i learned everything.. Got my first Macbook @ 21 after only playing with OSX in the stores, going on four years now no anti virus, tons of unquestionable sites, dropped it, spilt wine on it, found out that DJ'ing on a boat with the wet carpet and electrical hanging + aluminum chasis = electrically charged macbook that would shock you..

Lol, basically what i'm saying is I have put mine through absolute hell it it doesn't even blink (unless it gets wayyyyyy cold, then it wont startup until it warms up a bit.. winter night + uninsulated shop = colllddd)
Now realize mine is most likely just a factory freak, but I can honestly say in the process I have fallen in love with the OS. The key is to forget pretty much everything you learned on a PC, because if you try to work OSX like you work your PC then its just going to get frustrating and go nowhere fast.

I plan on building a "hackintosh" here in the near future once i learn more about them.. Not sure if the updating process is the same but i would love to do a dual boot system for my desktop that way i never run into OS compatibility problems...

[RacerRex]

i've owned all brand of PC's, HP, Dell, Lenovo and finally decided to spend money on a Macbook Pro and would never go back. Only because the quality of the PC's i've owned both build and support has declined through the years. I would say the Mac works as good as the PC's I've owned in the past. The test for me will throughout time, how the macbook pro's performance will hold up.

[Bassline Brine]

I have a Macbook Pro. And from a reliability, battery life, and screen... I couldn't be happier.

I was a PC guy for years, and have friends who use them still. There are some Windows only things I miss is I did like messing about with Fruity Loops (which is PC only) and some VST's I had used in the past are Windows only.

I also drive a Toyota Corolla. So fuck y'all haters lol. 36 MPG gets me where I need to go :P

People don't say "get a mac" because it's a bad idea. It's just a simplification of a computer made out of decent components that will do exactly what you want. You can even run windows on it if that's your thing. But it's something that works for a lot of people, myself included, and so is worth the professional investment to me.

[axum]

Got it. Thank you very much everybody
Now, where can I get a good offer for Mac, their online store or a 3rd party retailer?