PC user here, but for how long?

[Datus]

I am a PC user. Do to some recent issues with my PC, I have been considering coming over to the MAC side of things. I checked out your Dave C thread to see how the newer systems and OS X and PT 6 were performing before I decided. Reading through it at first discouraged me slightly i will say. As for my PC, I just built a new one as an upgrade, and I have never run the Dave C tests, but I know it would do the typical 32+5 or whatever. I for a moment considered staying PC then again I thought to my self who really needs 160 plug ins? As I thought back on my sessions I realized I think at most I may have had 20 plugs in a session with maybe 2 of those being verbs. So I can say this, benchmarks aside I am still considering a MAC, for the same reasons a lot of you swear by them. Not to mention I am also getting into Digital Video production, and that field is definately Mac sided as well. I have used PC's for over 10 years, I have worked in tech support for Gateway, I can build a stable PC with my eyes closed, if nothing else it is time for me to learn the ways of the Mac. I have some basic knowledge already, considering my school uses Macs, and the studio I work for uses a mac. However if anyone out there could give me some concerns I might run across, or if anyone has any reasons why I shouldn't go Mac, and stay PC please let me know, I am still debating this in my head and would appreciate anything I may not have thought of yet. I would appreciate honest opinions, especially if you have experience with both PC and Mac running a Digi 001 and what you noticed.

Thanks

P.S. PLTE 6 Is pretty too! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Delton05]

If you're getting into video, I'd definitely check out the real time card DV STorm2...nothing like it on the Mac for DV...as far as I know.
5 layers of video with no rendering, unlimited moving titles, and heaps of amazing transistions. Works like a dream on XP.
www.just-edit.com

Before you sell your PC software, I'd wait for AMD new Opteron cpu (clawhammer and sledge hammer) which is about to be released...should make PC users wonder if they need the dsp power of a HD system. I could dig up a link if you like...sounds awesome...and I've been Intel a long time.

http://www.hightekpc.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&re q=viewarticle&artid=27&pa ge=1

It will thrash Intel AND 970

Another annoying thing for Mac users is the fact that despite Apple now providing the latest and greater DVD burner from Sony (DRU500A)...it is somehow crippled by Apple because they won't let you burn DVD+R/RW...just DVD-R

Theres no stopping the march of the ever more powerful PC...Mac is lagging with an old cpu and only rumours of going to IBM970

[Delton05]

Sorry about the multipost guys...peakhour slow ISP response, thought DUC had gone down as well.

[Slim Shady]

you can delete them by clicking on the 'edit post' button next to each post (the paper and pencil icon). There's a checkbox to 'delete post' on the edit page.

[Delton05]

Done...thanks

[Datus]

Reading that article about the opteron really spun me into a loop. Especially since I realized that the new G4's dont support OS 9, which at this point in time i NEED. If I could find a decent deal on a slightly older G4, one of those nice ones they had a few months ago, I might still consider it, but for now it may be worth it just to wait a few months and slap a new 3000+ athlon in my system and watch it rock.

Mac users, please give me more reason to switch.