Once you go Mac..

[deeplfo]

So, actually it wasn't so much the hardware that was the issue.  Although
noisy fans and drives bug the hell out of me, but that can be addressed...

It's really the OS and UI that shines.  I have been around long enough to
work on various platforms, and have to do so even today for work, but for
my personal computing needs, I need something that feels less business-like
:-).

Another example, prior to my Macs, for my teaching gig I was using the
usual Office tools, Word, PPT, etc..but having used Pages and Keynote in
the last six months has been such a  nice change.  Better workflow, less
errors, issues and annoyances,...This is not to say that there aren't any
problems at all, that's the nature of these devices and the complex
software that goes with them, but functionally speaking, things are a lot
smoother going now :-)

btw, on a different note, my MacPro's silent existence is worth EVERY PENNY
that I spent on that thing :-)

Mohsen

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:43 AM, random variate <
randomvariate at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>  My self build i5 16gb RAM Windows7  DAW PC running Cubase 7.5 machine is
> rock solid.
>
> Maybe your PC build was sketchy?
>
> Horses for courses [image: 😉]
>  ------------------------------
> From: deeplfo <deeplfo at gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎24/‎02/‎2015 17:48
> To: Music-bar <music-bar at lists.music-bar.org>
> Subject: Re: Once you go Mac..
>
>   I had wrote about my going MacPro a while go, but not in any detail....
>
>  So, the best thing that ever happened to my computing needs was to ditch
> the PC and get the Mac.  Ableton Live still crashes here and there (have
> manage to curtail that a bit with not loading a bunch of default tracks in
> my template), and it's not that there are no issues whatsoever with the
> platform.  However, it's just that everything feels so LESS KLUNKY than
> Windows.  There just seems to be a little bit of thought having gone into
> things, and as an end user I *SO* appreciate that.  (I still have the
> Windows machine sitting around, and it's mostly used for connecting to work
> and misc. items like that).
>
>  For the MacPro I ended up going with the 512 G flash drive, bought a
> couple of 7-port, AC powered, USB3 hubs, and bought a few 1 TB and  2 TB
> USB3 drives.  My old Echo Audio Firewire8 didn't like playing with the
> Firewire-to-Thunderbolt adapter, and it also seemed time to upgrade, which
> had me buy the Focusrite Saffire audio interface.   It was actually a good
> thing that the Echo didn't work out, as the Saffire, combined with my
> recently acquired Equator speakers, and adding the MacPro to the mix, was
> the BEST thing that's happened to my studio in a while :-)
>
>  It's been such a nice experience making the switch that there is
> absolutely no way that I would ever buy another PC/Windows machine.  And in
> fact as soon as I can swing it, I will be looking at another MacPro to add
> to the family :-)
>
>  Mohsen
>
>
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