Im sure this has been covered at some point before but here it goes once more.
Ive been looking into a macbook and im always on the road with my band and im looking for a laptop to take my work mobile. From computer professionals they have pushed me toward a Mac for the programming of the OS and the simple fact it runs alot smoother than any PC laptop. I use Protools for my musician side and Ableton Live 8 for the dirty side.
I would like some feedback from a fellow musician for this one.
I will recommend you to buy a MacBook Pro…It is having more advanced technology that helps one to perform any sort of work…Also it’s graphics are efficient and fast…
This topic is like religion to a lot of people, so I guess getting objective opinions is hard.
I have been a pc user since the first IBM’s came out, but for music production I have to say macs simply work better. I have Ableton installed on both my pc laptop and my macbook pro. They have very similar specs, and the mac just works much better.
On the negative side, I really, really hate the touchpad on the mac - the lack of a dedicated right button annoys me. I know you can configure all sorts of multi-tap stuff, but it’s just not the same. The same goes for Finder - a poor file browser compared to Windows explorer imho.
What people say about apple is bull****. They are just as unreliable and more expensive to fix. Programs still crash on a mac. Don’t believe the hype. Having a mac won’t make you any better at music production. You’ll just get a hard on when you look at your computer, that is all. It’s all down to what you can afford and what you do with it tgat counts.
It might be worth sticking the original thread where we have discussed this before.