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Re: Mac advantages?
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:39 pm
by garyb
hmmm.
my pc is sometimes on for days without problems(actaully, it never has problems). maybe it's that pc owners like to screw with things too much....
Re: Mac advantages?
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:27 pm
by valis
I have just as much stability with either, and they both have their occasional gotchas. One thing to note is that your 'average' PC user may try a lot more programs than just 2 DAW apps and a handful of plugins (and thus encounter more issues.)
Re: Mac advantages?
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:44 am
by dawman
I layered this thread over the one at Gearslutz where young schoolboys were bragging about their toys and they nullified each other.
Also most wise audio PC buffs use OCZ's audio RAM which has better sound than the FB DIMM's that crawl along at 1066 on the Macs.
Re: Mac advantages?
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:36 am
by valis
No fb-dimms in Xeons (and thus mac pros) since 2008
I'd gladly use Logic on PC if it wasn't stuck at 5.51
Re: Mac advantages?
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:14 am
by wolf
valis wrote:I'd gladly use Logic on PC if it wasn't stuck at 5.51
.. I'm glad that it still works for you since I was the only one left who did quality assurance for 5.5.1 back then and fighted hard to let the devs fix some outstanding issues
Re: Mac advantages?
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 3:55 pm
by valis
Oh I'm on 9.1.3 & 10.6.6 on both my Logic machines. My Win7 box runs Reaper+Cubendo & my Scope box is a 2001 era Xeon that actually does run LAP 5.51 but it's done that since it was my main machine! I wish Apple's current beta testers were better QA but 9.1.3 overall is pretty solid for me (I use it & Live 8.x on Mac.) Thanks for the QA on the old version though!
Anyway none of this helps with the parent's question...
Re: Mac advantages?
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:14 pm
by wolf
valis wrote:I wish Apple's current beta testers were better QA.
Just for the the reference: beta testing is *not* the same as doing quality assurance. In fact these are completely different things. As beta tester you just report bugs (which usually are not reproducible), but you do not need to tangle with release plans, deadlines, marketing decisions, developers, die-hard-reproducibility, policies, long term decisions, etc.
Re: Mac advantages?
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:18 pm
by valis
wolf wrote:valis wrote:I wish Apple's current beta testers were better QA.
Just for the the reference: beta testing is *not* the same as doing quality assurance
Exactly my point
