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On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Rafael Nunes wrote: > > As much as I want to want the Mac, I feel like the wise thing is to > get a PC. Am I crazy? From my perspective, and I'm not nearly as knowledgeable as many on this list (read Per Boysen, Jeff Larson, Andy Butler, et. al.), if you have a lot of money, then I'd go with the new MacBook Pros because you can run OS X and Win 7 simultaneously using Boot Camp. This allows you to do your websurfing and email correspondance without great a great fear of viruses and then to run whatever audio you want on either OS. On the down side of purchasing a Mac, I have these feelings: I, personally, love VST instruments and, especially, the fact that very young, out of their bedroom programmers are continually innovating new sound design strategies in the free/share ware world. Currently, developement of freeware VSTs is running around 20 to 1 (PC to Mac). Additionally, I personally love several programs that not only run solely on Windows but also have no true equivalents in the Mac world (my favorite addiction is FLStudio producers edition and then a bunch of proprietary small standalone programs like Tuareg and Granulab). I also, personally just really like the Sony family of programs that used to be Sonic Foundry.....Sound Forge, Vegas Video, Acid, et. al. So I prefer the PC side of things. But it all comes with a price and that is a lot of working tweaking things so that your system will run smoothly. OS X just runs well out of the box. The downside of all of this is that I don't have a lot of money and the Mac world is just more of an upper middle class kind of computing solution. Peripherals cost more money and Mac is constantly figuring out ways to keep people using their stuff (my headphone jack just quit working because standard sized mini plug headphones trip a switch that make the headphone out an optical out ---- solution: only buy more expensive Mac peripherals..........that stuff is maddening to me. Lastly, talking to the people at the so called 'Genius Bar' told me that they assume that their laptops will run for 4-5 years, so be prepared to be buying a MacBook Pro at that frequency. I spent $3,500 on mine , fully tricked out, and a vastly better one was in place within a years' time at half the price. To get a pro video card in your MacBook Pro, be prepared to pay an extra $600. Figure that out against the $200 or so it will cost you on a PC laptop. Admittedly, I have only an anecdotal horror story with my MacBook Pro-- $4,000 of repairs in 4 years, covered by the warranty and extra $300 Apple Care 'insurance) but I know many people who haven't had a single problem with the exact same model, so I believe I just have bad karma with Apple............ After all was said and done I figured that I could have purchased two phenomenal PC laptops (one off the internet for audio, one on for video and web browsing) and a very high quality Video Projector and Screen and still had change in my pocket. Given my problems with my laptop, I wish I had. rick walker