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Prasanna · Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 29

I'm planning to buy a MacBook Pro for music making.
(1) I don't know why almost all the musicians prefer Mac over Windows. Please let me know why.
(2) For music making, which is better - Imac or Macbookpro?

Thank you so much!

Prasanna

Ultimate Dj · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject: Re: Rookie Question

X-Trade · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject:

another reason now to go with pro is that now normal macbooks have done away with firewire. if you use any firewire audio interface you have to get a macbook pro. seems like a con to me though.... its better than USB but its still being phased out...
and the number of usb ports on the macbooks is shameful when you consider that its probably the only peripheral being used.

don't even get me started on the number of useless USB devices around...
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Prasanna · Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 29

Guyz,
Thanks for the reply! I finally got hold of a MacBook Pro even though I still don't know why it is used by most of the musicians. Very Happy

Prasanna

EJ2 · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject:

Keep in mind that USB 3 is coming. It could be that Apple are moving in that direction because USB 3 will be 6 times faster than Firewire 800. And it will crush SATA. Just musing.
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Daz · Retired Joined: 01 Jan 2002 Posts: 10829

I don't think *most* musicians are using Macs, I suspect that most are actually using PC's. However a lot of the very visible professional musicians and studios use Macs, and that is because the Mac was the platform that many early music software companies went to after the demise of the Atari. At that time it was far more friendly and powerful than a PC running DOS ! Macs are also traditionally associated with creative people, because of the software that was available for the platform, but that is not so much the case now. There are many legacy/historical reasons why musicians/studios use Macs, but today there are lots of less fuzzy reasons to do so too. The modern Mac is a really stable platform, that has very modern music making underpinnings in CoreMIDI and CoreAudio. It's also a pleasure to use in comparison to Windows which is increasing becoming a bag of mixed design metaphors and generally yuck. Importantly Macs are a specific hardware configuration, so writing stable driver and application software is a lot easier. People say PC's are unreliable because of Windows, really they are not, it's just all the drivers and different hardware configurations that lead to many messes.

Anyway ... welcome to being a creative person and not an office worker Wink

Daz.

p.s. I am a Windows software developer by day, but at night I use Macs for all my music making, personal use, photo's etc. I've a foot in both camps.

laughing_bear · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject: