Re: mac

In article <2006053100114516807-fordtruckATmaccom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bobby P Longsocks <fordtruckATmac.com> wrote:

On 2006-05-30 22:25:43 -0400, "Chris" <CSYanks21@xxxxxxx> said:

I have to buy my first computer for college and am having the
mac/pc debate. What do you guys recommend both for musical and
personal usage. Ive heard good things about the mac but have never
actually used one. Thanks for the help.

I'm going to be 3rd to tell you to get the Mac, you'll love OS X,
your computing experience will be elegant, efficient, virus, trojan,
worm, free.

As a long-time Mac user (20 years), I just want to caution everyone to
remember that this state of affairs is temporary. These things will be
developed for the Mac eventually. Proof of concept is already out
there. There are some very good anti-virus software options such as
ClamXav for the Mac.

You'll spend more time being creative, and less time troubleshooting
computer problems.

True enough as a general thing. In 20 years I have had basically three
problems- a flyback transformer going bad in my 1986 Mac 512Ke, a video
board dying in my 1998 iMac Rev B., and managing to kill OS X 10.1.5 on
my iMac by injudiciously updating libraries manually. The latter was
easily fixed with a reinstall, took about an hour. I have found my Macs
to be generally very reliable and long-lasting. My first Mac still runs
and is used occasionally by the current owner as a word processor! I
used that Mac until 1993 when I bought a PowerBook, which I used until
1998 when I bought the iMac, which is still in daily use.

What I have not done is much by way of music with the Macs. There are a
lot of option both in terms of music recording, editing and production
including a lot of free software from the Unix world and the stuff that
comes built-in from Apple. There are many applications for producing
*** music, too, including free professional grade music typesetting
using TeX/LaTeX (the raw code looks a lot like Lily Pond's, so it takes
some getting used to).
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