TwelveBar, you just made me stick to windows

And My main concern was I use windows at school and work all the time so I couldnt use word files for Mac etc.

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My Baby, 2008 Standard American Jazz Bass

But a Macbook comes with BootCamp, so you could still run MS apps.

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

I've been listening to some of these songs done using Garageband and it amazes me :


http://www.garageband.com/

Just about any genre is covered, great site, imo.

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

Yes, you can. Word files are cross-platform... files created in Word for Mac open on Windows machines, too.

I have heard this 'quality of components' garbage from mac guys for a long long time. Yes Mac components were so much better that they switched to intel chips. Oh wait!! intel chips, that mac users were calling inferior for over a decade?

Here I found a Mac book, and a PC notebook. Pretty close on specs.

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/prodde ... 197&catid=

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/prodde ... 859&catid=

Similar specs, except the mac at 100 dollars more has a 2 inch smaller screen.

To get the same size screen, and a very small amount of performance increase on a Mac wouls cost $1000 dollars more.

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/prodde ... 865&catid=

Price is a huge issue. I only use the above examples because its the same store. With a mac that is all you can get here. Only a few places have em. You can't get a custom made one, or build your own. But if I shop around I can get a 17" screen PC laptop with the same specs as the 13" screen apple for the same or less money.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

Oh man, I didnt know that!
I think Im going to wait until Windows 7 comes out, See how that turns out, But I really should get my hands on a friends Mac and try out Garage Band because I want to record stuff But I'm not sure Yet... The only sad thing is that mac Books are so expensive! amost the same price as a Standarm American Jazz Bazz

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My Baby, 2008 Standard American Jazz Bass

If are going to use it for the right applications a Mac is worth buying. Garage band goes a long long way toward making up some of the price differential.

I am just saying, tha for the average user, they are just too pricey for what you get.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

I use a Mac, they just seem to run better.

At the University of Illinois' music department, the only computers are Macs, so maybe that says something. :]

You can use NeoOffice; it opens .doc, .xls. .ppt, etc and it's free

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Marshall: 1971 SuperLead 100>1997 1960-TV, bunch of pedals
and a 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera coupe named Veronica

PC

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I don't do any recording (no one would want to hear my meager skills yet)...but I've been PC since I first tapped a keyboard.

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Owner of:
-2008 American Standard Strat in Candy Cola Red
-Vibro-Champ XD
-Fender CD-60 Acoustic (Sunburst)

rholloman: your pricing is so far wrong it's incredible.

I am sitting next to an desktop 8-core 2,8 ghz Mac Pro with 4 gigs of RAM and three internal hard drives. Total investment: $2,500.

There is no way in hell you can spend 13,000 American dollars on a computer, Mac included, "maxed out" or not.

Now, why doesn't somebody just post a picture of Calvin pissing on an Apple logo and get this stupid thread over with?

PC.

Twelvebar gave the sensible reasons.

My irrational reasons are that I dislike Apple as a company in so many ways. What a snotty, up themselves outfit!

I do have an iPod because I was given it as a gift. I was given an iPhone too, but it annoyed me too much. Actually, half of what annoyed me was people ooh-ing and aah-ing when I pulled it out (back when they were new). It's a phone - get over it!

I gave it away.

Now. Back to my cave...

Cheers - C

twelvebar has it right.

It's always been PC's for me. And at the enormous cost of a mac - it will stay a PC - or maybe no computer (been thinking about that too)

Now, IF, the Apple people would get their heart right ..... maybe ......

Just ask youself why do most Universities and busnesses use Widows XP Pro. still.

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