Considering switching to Mac with Logic

tone-def · Post by **tone-def** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:58 pm

i'm waiting for the i5/i7 to become cheaper. that will probably be at the end of the year. intel are acting like a monopoly with their pricing for those processors and it's not benefiting the consumer. Apple don't like this and they have been talking to AMD. so we'll either see AMD macs or intel will start behaving themselves.

and the reason i dropped logic for pro tools was because of the audio editing. even with flex time and beat slicing pro tools is still ahead.

hydrogen · Post by **hydrogen** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:17 pm

Rookas wrote:im talking bout mac vs pc , you get twice more when buying pc:))
im not saying buy computer for 1.5k , i myself still have P4 haha but i dont use vsts .. but you could buy a pc with i7 for that price maybe abit more idk the prices in uk that much anyway i would go either for pc or for a better performance mac. i would say mac mini for 500 is not good at all

+1 if i didn't need a laptop i would have gone pc... still wishing i had a pc desktop right now.

lem · Post by **lem** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:50 pm

@hydrogen, what's wrong with ur MAC laptop? why wud I prefer a pc?

lem · Post by **lem** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:51 pm

@hydrogen, what's wrong with ur MAC laptop? why wud I prefer a pc?

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:59 pm

tone-def wrote:i'm waiting for the i5/i7 to become cheaper. that will probably be at the end of the year. intel are acting like a monopoly with their pricing for those processors and it's not benefiting the consumer. Apple don't like this and they have been talking to AMD. so we'll either see AMD macs or intel will start behaving themselves.

In exactly 1 year when I am planning to upgrade my mbp, the price for i7's should be fair (I hope!)...

lem · Post by **lem** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:32 pm

Do you use your MBP for production or do you have desktop systems?

Rookas · Post by **Rookas** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:35 pm

i think it doesnt matter is it a laptop or imac or pc (the box lol) i myself dont find needing a laptop , cause i dont travel thgat much and i dont do any music on pc, desktops are cheaper and easily upgradable, but you can get a laptop and use it like some kind of hybrid , with a dock or just external mouse and monitor but only if you take it away everyday or atleast 4-5times a week, its funny when people buy laptops and they only sit there where the desktop could lol

tone-def · Post by **tone-def** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:53 pm

patrick bateman wrote:
tone-def wrote:i'm waiting for the i5/i7 to become cheaper. that will probably be at the end of the year. intel are acting like a monopoly with their pricing for those processors and it's not benefiting the consumer. Apple don't like this and they have been talking to AMD. so we'll either see AMD macs or intel will start behaving themselves.
In exactly 1 year when I am planning to upgrade my mbp, the price for i7's should be fair (I hope!)...

i really hope so. that quad core imac is faster than the 8 core mac pro!