Thread: AMD system worththe expense?

Mac's are very nice machines but my friend that I was talking about early looked into Mac first but the price was to high, with the setup he got he was able to get 12 gig of RAM and Mac didn't offer that , over two gig was extra and drove the price up even higher. But , Mac's are nice machines, I just wish the price would come down. I have been working on win 7 off and on for about a year and I finally bought a copy for my AMD setup.
It kicks butt on XP. I haven't seen any difference in performance between the mac's I have worked on and my friends core i7 PC , I work on his machine a couple of times a week. I do music , Video editing and Graphic software such as Adobe suite, no problems with win 7.
I think win 7 and Intel core i7 have pretty much evened out the playing field if you are running 64 bit win 7. I wouldn't say that if I was talking about XP verses mac though, LOL.
Max

Just for me, doing design, I've been locked into Mac for years. Feels like Mac can do PC but not vice versa. When I actually look into the software I use for Mac onry (Creative Suite, Quark, Things) its fairly apparent I'm locked into software thats tied to hardware. But similar with Windows and Sage. Audio is perversely the only thing I'm happy to cross-platform with....

A few years back I took a couple of courses at the local junior college to get better acquainted with music software and the college only had macs.
OS 8.5, it sucked but so did win 98, man those were miserable times on the computer. I was all set to get the new g-4 when if first came out and use pro-tools but I quickly found out that Pro Tools only worked with the digidesign audio interface witch was $750.00 at the time and pro-tools didn't have good midi at all so I started looking around at the other software, Cakewalk sucked back then Logic was overly complicated as was digital performer and only worked on a mac so I ended up trying Cubase, I couldn't get any help with cubase at school at all even though it was cross platform.
Everybody at school used mac and actually burned on me endlessly cos I didn't get one, lol. I built a intel pentium 4 with 2 gig of ram from the ground up. I still have it and it still works, it runs at 4.6 ghz. I ran win 2000 on it till XP came out. I bough all the parts for from frys electronic for around $400.00 the g-4 was $1600.00 bare bones. Mac just priced me out.
I have an M-Audio Delta 1010 audio interface with a life time warranty but it's still working fine I got it back in 2002. I had to learn Final cut cos a lot of my video editing buddy's us it but I use Vegas on my computer it is so much easier. I also use premiere a little I am really starting to like it. That's where you really need a fast computer, Video editing, I edit here at my place and render on my friend's core i7.
Max

Sucks to be tied into hardware via software. I'd guess I am about £20k down on Adobe Mac and couldn't make the platform switch if I wanted to...

See for me it's easy.. Fruity Loops isn't even made for mac!

AMD or Intel... if its built like a beast and optimized, its a beast and should work great. I have an AMD beast and a new 965 i7 beast and either blazes. I experience no difference in performance. The AMD however, does the video better hands down on this system I have. A good/ no excellent power supply, ample RAM and quality components in a properly optimized system makes a big difference.

yeah It's all about $ , I would love to have both top of the line computers, but top of the line changes so often you can only have it for a minute.
You guys have a music page? post a link.
Max

But you don't have to keep buying and upgrading every month either. Its called G.A.S. and people have it with everything these days. The constant craving to get more and more. Less is more. Be smart and invest in quality and don't fill your systems up with a bunch of junk plug-ins and toys.