MacBook pro vs Thinkpad

[V-Hoff]

Choose between a MAC or a PC is not about tech specifications, specially for djing, that doesn't need soo much CPU power.

You need to keep in mind that with Windows you will have to do A LOT of tweeks and personalizations to get your system ready to DJing with the lowest latency possible.

If you check this great article from Chris you will understand what I mean:
http://www.djtechtools.com/2011/05/0...a-brief-guide/
"Macs are better than PCs. It’s true that straight out of the box Macs tend to be easier to set up. The built in support for music hardware in their operating systems is stronger in OSX, but most audio hardware will have ASIO drivers – a third party driver system that allows direct and low latency connection between the system and the audio – written for it for use in Windows. ASIO provides comparable and sometimes even better latencies than OSX’s CoreAudio drivers."

I agree with Chris but with Mac you can buy a Firewire interface and have extremelly low latency, so I still think that choosing a Mac is a big win for everyone messing with audio.

I always say to my friends that choose between Mac and "others" is a matter of how the mac softwares are better then the others and not just hardware specifications.
We are too much used to compare just specifications because in many years we didn't had to compare Operational Systems, the majority of them was Windows, we get used to it...

The safe choice is to compare O.S. and the softwares that you want to use on Thinkpad and Macbook.

[Garygary1]

out of all the vs. threads that have turned into mac vs pc threads, i have to say, this has to be one of the most civil ones i've ever seen

[V-Hoff]

and was because of Karlos

Well modded bro!

[ctrld]

For work, your computer is going to spend most of the day sitting there, waiting for you.

in my line of work, we have to wait for computers all the time. waiting for macs just takes longer than waiting for PCs.

[ellgieff]

in my line of work, we have to wait for computers all the time. waiting for macs just takes longer than waiting for PCs.

*shrugs* I get that your subjective opinion is that this is true. I've also seen people claim the exact opposite, and they believed what they were saying was also true.

And it's still not relevant to the dicussion at hand.

Interestingly, you may well have to wait for your machine to render. And the other truth (that is objectively verifiable) is that the machine has still spent much, much, much more time issuing NOPs and waiting for you than you will ever spend waiting for it.

*edit: typo

[zestoi]

if the decision was what pc to buy then i'd go with the thinkpad over most other laptops. had only been using thinkpads for years until quite recently. they're very well made.

so just really depends on if you want a pc to start with...

i'm a pc user but wouldn't mind a mac... i don't understand all the mac vs pc stuff.... they're just tools... since i bought traktor and ableton live for pc that's what would probably make me stick to using a pc.

[kingsplayer2]

If you still have some spare change, get some extra ram and a silicone keyboard cover

its already upgraded to 4 gigs

edit:

also, the more i thought about it, the more i realized that macs work well because of the fact that the os isnt created to be "universal", in other words the hardware is specifically designed and configured for the software and vice versa. heres a good example, a few years ago my friend came over with a realllly old alienware laptop and we were playing tf2. i had recently built a new desktop with specs almost double his laptop and for some reason, he had almost twice the fps rate i did. mind you theese were both pcs but i think the configuration aspect of my idea is still relevant.