[78-L] Audio - Mac vs PCs - any advice? (rjh334578gmail)

[Ron L'Herault]

I'm pretty sure you can choose a win 8.1 interface that looks and acts like
Win 7 which is quite nice and not that far removed from XP.

Ron L

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Everyone likes what they like - there's no right answer for Mac vs Windows
machines.

Someone wrote "If you have no idea what that last paragraph means, stick
with Windows.  No sense trying to learn to drive a standard transmission
this late in life."

Sadly,  if you buy a new PC, you'll end up with the new Windows 8.1
operating system, which is VERY VERY different than older Windows versions.
I've had it for most of a year now, and I'm still finding it 
hard to get used to.   (I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!)   It's 
oriented toward touch-screens, so if you have one and are used to tablets,
ipods and ipads, it may be easy for you, but for me, a lot of the things
that were easy to do in Windows XP are no longer easy.  At all.

On the other hand, I bought a high-powered PC, and the sound is very good
with my speaker system.  There was no problem installing programs I had on
my old machine, and both Audacity and Creative WaveStudio (now available as
freeware) run in Windows 8.1 with no problem.  So do NoteworthyComposer and
the simple version of Finale.

David in Delta





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>     2.  Audio - Mac vs PCs - any advice? (rjh334578gmail)
>     3. Re:  Audio - Mac vs PCs - any advice? (Ron L'Herault)
>     4. Re:  Audio - Mac vs PCs - any advice? (David Breneman)
>     5. Re:  Audio - Mac vs PCs - any advice? (Rodger J. Holtin)
>     6. Re:  Audio - Mac vs PCs - any advice? (David Breneman)
>     7. Re:  Audio - Mac vs PCs - any advice? (Ron L'Herault)
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> My pc crapped out.  I have a som trying to convince me a Mac is the 
> way to go nowdays.  Surely some of you guys have some experience with 
> this??
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> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:52:09 -0500
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> There's a lot more to this story than is worth telling here, but 
> perhaps I should have been a little more precise, anyway.  I have had 
> to deal with both at work, so I know many of the issues between the 
> two.  Are there any preferences in terms of audio gear relating to 
> either that would seem significant?  I'm used to Nero and Audacity use 
> on PC - anybody use those on a Mac.  Is garageband useful at all for 
> what we likely do with audio transfer, de-click, EQ, burn CDs etc?
>
> Rodger
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> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:30 PM, David Breneman < 
> dbreneman at t-online.de.invalid> wrote:
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>> Von: rjh334578gmail <rjh334578 at gmail.com.invalid>
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>>> My pc crapped out.  I have a som trying to convince me a Mac is the 
>>> way to go nowdays.  Surely some of you guys have some experience 
>>> with this??
>> So many Windows vs Mac debates seem to revolve around the old 
>> conundrum "Hitler or Stalin - Which is your favorite dictator?"
>>
>> Professionally, as someone who must carry a laptop because I support 
>> mission-critical data center systems, which by definition run either 
>> Unix or Linux, a Mac is better because you can get to a Unix command 
>> line underneath all the user-friendly bullsh*t, and that actually 
>> helps you get things done.
>>
>> If you have no idea what that last paragraph means, stick with 
>> Windows.  No sense trying to learn to drive a standard transmission 
>> this late in life.
>>
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