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Author: dach on August 20 2007 Viewed 2416 times. 2 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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So, I went ahead and bought myself a shiny new laptop, sort of like the one I blogged about a short while ago, see link. Anyway, I got the model without the little blue screen on the outside, and was very pleased for a while. it's extremely fast, light, the screen is crystal clear and it's very very shiny. But, it gets very very warm, and the DVD drive doesn't work.
So, I have to send it back. And here comes the real problem. Should I get a macbook instead? With the release of leopard in the near future, I can get a kickass macbook right now for the same price I paid for the LG machine. I thought I had already made my purchase decision and now I gotta do it again. I think the keyboard on the macbook is ugly as hell, I much much prefer the LG. The macbook also looks pretty dated nowadays, and at 13" its stretching my size limit. But since I've picked up a couple of problems with the LG machine already, I am no longer sure I want it. ohhhh someone gimme advice on what to do! Are the macbooks still in fashion or are they gettting outdated? will my existing se p1i smartphone work with it or am i gonna have to get a iphone? what am i gonna dooo
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theflame
I have a PC and a Mac laptop and I'd never ecen consider another Windoze machine after having the Max. It's almost completely silent, great battery life and great design.
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theflame
yay for typos!
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dach
People who say 'windoze' are already biased and incapable of holding an objective opinion.
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jp
i have been using PCs for a long long time (my first PC was a 8086 with a floppy disk and 640k). a week ago i bought a mac mini for an interactive installation i will be showing.
and now i am considering to change to mac. the main reason is that i don't see any future with windows. i haven't tried vista but all i read tells me that it's not worth trying. not that it doesn't work but i can see no progression. no new file system. not much improvement in security. and i don't want to wait for another 5 years until they publish a new windows version. apple publishes a new OS every 1 to 2 years.
hardwarewise there's not much difference. except that maybe the support at apple is a little better. they also tend to break like all laptops.
but i would not choose my laptop because it is fashionable.
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dach
I happen to like fashionable stuff (if only cos I've never had fashionable stuff before :P Can't see too much wrong with Vista to be honest. It's the first version of windows that actually surprised me (in a positive way). Perhaps win server 2003 is better (solid, stable), but its got a heavy industrial feel. MS have hidden away a lot of the technical things and configs in Vista, and to give credit where credit is due, it works very well. It's been smooth, responsive and ran without any major problems so far. And if it's not exactly pretty, it's at least as ugly as OSX. So, performance aside, and operating system aside, what is left to choose between?
Looking at the macbooks, I think it's a bloody ripoff that the black one costs $100 more for the exact same insides. just cos its black. I am tempted by osx, and the fact that many musicans are using it and saying it's great. and many bloggers and facebook users are using it, and saying its great. and most people don't know their ass from their elbow.
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dynamo
I bought a new Lenovo T61 laptop to use for music last week. Choose a Windows machine because I know Windows very well and don't want to spend time learning another OS. I run XP because its easy and stable and Ableton recommends it for Live6. Works very well.
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mulletballet
I just bought a Gateway notebook that came with Vista -- still getting used to Vista, but all my devices appear to work just fine, and every bit of music software I've loaded does work -- what I don't like is spending 30 minutes trying to figure out how to do things that took 5 seconds in XP and seemed to be placed somewhere that made sense.
Vista is 'pretty' to look at, some cool video tricks, but -- it's difficult to use, if you ask me -- I'm still pondering going back to XP...
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Roshi
LOL, not to be mean, dach, but it sounds like you are already biased against it.
I really really like the the fact that the guts of os x are unix-like. It saves me a lot of headaches with my current job; plus shell scripts and such that I wrote for automating some simple processes long ago still work out great.
Add Parallels + WinXP for running some windows progs and you have the best of both worlds, IMO. In fact, since you can compile most unix utilities and apps, I'd say you get the best of three worlds. 
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Jim
I recently bought a new laptop, and after using windows all my life, I switched to mac. I have a desktop I use for the bulk of my composition and a laptop that is mainly used for live performance. I still use Windows on the desktop, and it works for me, plus I like that the hardware is more easily upgradeable. I built the computer myself so I feel like I got what I wanted.
With laptops, it's a whole different ball game. After going through a technical support nightmare with my windows laptop, and then a technical service dream with my ipod, I decided to go mac. Their technical service seems really great, and I like the design of their laptops. I like how there isn't a ton of extra garbage on the laptop; my last windows laptop had these buttons for starting/stopping music on the side that I would always inadvertently bump.
Also, I think it performs very well. It might be psychological, but I swear that on my windows machine it seems like as the cpu load increases in Live, the audio glitches before the graphics slow, whereas on the mac, that's reversed, which is better.
There may be good windows machines out there, but they are untested to me. Macbooks have a track record, friends and internet friends have them, Apple has great support, and it is well-designed and easy to use.
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tantan
Apple support is AMAZING, so long as you buy AppleCare for the life of a machine. Their hardware is a little unreliable, but they are amazingly responsive when there are issues.
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dach
Thanks all for the kind words of advice. Decisions like getting married and having children pale in comparison to the difficulty involved in choosing a new latop.
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Roshi
LOL @ laptop vs marriage
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em978
I just got a macbook.. I really don't care too much for the mac os vs pc os thing it seems kind of silly to me. The reason I got the macbook was that it was cheaper then buying a pc with the same specs... like 500 dollars cheaper. Anyways I installed xp with bootcamp because, parallels is not a very good way to run audio software, everything seems to be running really well. I would stay don't buy a macbook pro because, it really isn't worth the extra money... and this is coming from someone who is computer science student.
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dach
in the osx versus vista debate, i think i'm quite neutral, they have both good and bad points, so it all balances out in the end. I can hope that the osx workflow suits me, because from what i gather, you have to do everything the way apple tells you to do it. Learning osx seems like a mini adventure, vista seemed strange too but rather easy to figure out. I enjoy the idea of the unix background, the applescripts and so on.
is it worth waiting for Leopard? are the prices at a low now because of the imminent release?
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skab
get a mac. the chicks love it
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