Wolfeman wrote:
@bloodline: Well, dude, you're obviously no Mac fan, and that's fine, there are PC people and Mac people but if you look at benchmark tests between G4s and 1Ghz era PC processors, the mac wins every time.
You did read the posts where he repeatedly recommended a Mac, right? ;-)
I think the point is more that the Core 2 Macs now pee all over the PPC line. Now if I came across a deal on a G5 tower I might bite but otherwise... No.
I did a lot of recording with GarageBand on my old PowerBook but it wouldn't have dealt with Logic 8 the way I use that (on a 2.4GHz Core 2 iMac). If you're using live effects you can
always use more processing power.
@Wilse: The usb on a mac for some reason is bloody slow. ever try to hook up a usb hard drive or disc burner? omg it's awful. let alone a usb flash drive, it always takes twice as long to copy files and even on my dual processor G5.
For MIDI it's fine and even some audio interfaces but for my money and time the firewire is faster and more reliable.
I've never found it that bad, but I wonder if your experience is that file transfers aren't buffered the way they are in Windows (they changed that for Vista, everyone complained and it was switched back for SP1). That's no measure of the Mac's USB performance for audio hardware, etc., much as I prefer Firewire gear too. (I'm also on the lookout for a proper interface... Recording through on-board off an analog Yamaha mixer at the moment.)
