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Using anything Apple has always been about staying with the latest and greatest to benefit the most from the whole "it just works" thing in my experience. I've don't know exactly how long I've been using Macs, but it just always seemed to get way more difficult the longer you held on to devices or OS's.
I don't see it any different on the iOS side of things, Apple isn't about "legacy products", they move fast and expect people to keep up. Not saying it's right or the way to do business, but there it is.
Hackintosh rules!!!
This Dell was lovely when I first bought it - top of the range, lightning fast. Then third party engineers were sent round to all customers as the batch I'd had had been sold with a dodgy motherboard. These were replaced and it was never the same again. When I boot up it's a complete lottery as to what drivers will or won't load up - sometimes the mouse, soundcard, tablet driver, modem driver etc. etc. don't load up and I have to reboot or muck about unplugging things and swapping connections until it does. Always been like that. Dell before that had a fatal hard drive failure after two years. PC before that, an Evesham had a motherboard failure after a year (and after the company had gone bust). A Dell laptop had to go back for a keyboard replacement after a few weeks, and when it came back never worked the same again. HP laptop battery went down to half an hour after 12 months, and now only works if it's plugged into the mains, and sits on 3% charge. And crashes a lot. Etc.
Meanwhile my 4+ year old Macbook Pro on the (almost) latest OSX is running like a dream.
Who says Macs are expensive?
@Littlewoodg, where is that bargain to be had? I can't find it online.
Sorry, my info is a few weeks old deals I saw then sold out pretty quick, they've become a sought-after thing. People are holding on to them, but some focused hunting will likely yield results...eBay has some used 256g i5, for under $600, refurbished for such like is @650$ https://www.itrenewdirect.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=1631-SurfacePro3-i5-8GB-256GB-WiFi-SL-B&Store_Code=itrenewdirect&gdffi=adde366dd82b4c23b142c95292fa0902&gdfms=9062E105917D4722A38E007677E34E5A&gclid=CNSBuMfcsM8CFRBEfgod52UG4Q
i7 seems to add about $100?
I run both macosx and Windows for music. Both are very stable and fine, macosx is easier but Windows is fine too
When I'm inside reaper I don't notice which computer I'm using, aside from the fact that on Windows there's no AU category. I'm on win 7 though, and I use that for recording from an m7cl through ether net, which is windows only.
I gave Linux music a serious try about 5 or 6 years ago, using ardour, then later mixbus, but way too many sessions ruined by the mess that is JACK. And being used to reaper, there were WAY too many steps to do simple things that reaper let me do in one step. Most of the Linux music community seemed to be focused on how low they could get latency, but the actual quality of music being made was pretty low, and to do that much messing around just to record was not worth it.
That's when I got my first mac, a used 2008 black macbook.
Not sure if it was a malware issue, or Windows glitch but my login password wasn't being recognised on my PC this afternoon. Took hours of twiddling and fiddling to get access, so I could get back in and reset everything. Virus scans revealed nothing, so passwords reset, backups and recovery tools primed and hope it doesn't reoccur tomorrow.
The joys of running an out of date (7) Windows OS. If I wasn't upgrading my house and therefore skint, I'd be buying an iMac tomorrow.
Thanks for the info, @Littlewoodg. I'll keep me eyes open.
I've been a PC/Windows user since DOS 4.01, but spent the past 3 years using my MacBook exclusively as my primary creative machine. The experience was fine, but I've recently moved back to Windows (10), happily it's turned out.
But that's neither here nor there... unless you need a particular piece of software that runs exclusively on MacOS or Windows, the idea that either platform has a monopoly on being able to create great creative work is fairly silly at this point. All my DAWs run on both. All my design apps as well, save one. And it's the individual creative applications that matter. (Outside of the built in UNIX tools, I can't think of a single built in Apple app I regularly used in OSX. Rather it was Alfred->Application. I understand some folks have fetishes about interfaces, but I'm not one of those people).
However, I do agree entirely with the op-ed in this month's TapeOp magazine about Apple not taking the 'pro mindset' seriously. (In how they strip autonomy away from folks being able to control their own machines, and the ravages Apple's yearly overhauls are causing). For the same reason I think my iPad Pro will be my last Apple device. (Though I love it, having so little control over my own device is beginning to wear).
If only Firefox would make serious moves for getting onto tablets. Their last attempt was abysmal in almost every way except technical. I'd really like to see a tablet that's better than a laptop and runs only web technology based apps. Or, maybe I'm describing Chrome OS, but my prior experience of that was trying it out in shops and instinctively reaching to touch the screen ever second or so, and remembering it isn't touchscreen (but seriously should have been).
There are chrome books with touch screen I believe. My wife has a chromebook. Since she got it last year I've done almost no tech support at all in our house, and that is a wonderful thing. She needed a laptop to do paperwork that is all on an online system for her job, as well as light Web surfing, and it has been perfect.
Firefox have recently announced they have stopped development of Firefox OS.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.fxos/FoAwifahNPY/Lppm0VHVBAAJ
Google have a big announcement scheduled for October 4th. Mostly speculation at this point, but most people are expecting the first Google branded Pixel phones as well as a new operating system (Andromeda) that combines Android and Chrome OS.
androidcentral.com/andromeda
Yes, it's a shame about Firefox OS and how it has ended up. Panasonic released a few smart TVs last year (and this year) based on Firefox TV OS and almost unversally got good reviews on how usable, and pleasurable, they were to use. But then everyone went and bought the Sony Android ones instead, only to complain at length at how buggy they were.
Mossberg: Running Windows 10 and macOS Sierra together
http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/28/13081842/mossberg-parallels-12-windows-10-macos-sierra
My Chromebook, on which I run Linux through the Crouton script, is slated to get Android app support sometime this year and when it does I'm sure I'll try out some of the audio applications. I'm not getting my hopes up that the latency issue has been solved, but I'm not always "real time" in my music creation so it might not be an issue. Risking $10 for Caustic with an accessible file system (easily expandable with thumb drives, no less) sounds like a good bet, even without a touch screen -- come to think of it I used the free PC version before getting an iPad so I already know it works okay with a mouse.
Would be really nice if apple decided to put more effort on bringing ipads as instruments/controllers to what they could be. Ipad could be so much more combined with a computer, that is if apple made them work together more seamlessly. But i guess apple decides to see what other developers do first and then get into it more after a while if it seems worthwhile. But i think its a bit silly that apple computers are branded as more artistic kind of stuff than windows, but then they have this really awesome potential in their hands and basically lets the community build it with limited access to.. well everything. If apple truly wanted, they could make an ipad pro + maclaptop combo nearly any midi controller killer and so much more..
I enjoyed this sentence:
"Why shouldn’t desktop upgrades be the kind of no-brainer mobile upgrades are?"
I stopped reading the article when i got to the part where it says that the lightning cable cant connect to a mac?
I use studiomux all the time with a lightning cable connecting my ipad with my mac.
To remove the DVD from the Macs and remove the 3.5 mm headphone jacks from ALL iOS devices in the future will ends with that Apple is removing ALL keyboards on the Macs since we now have Siri for inputs in Mac OS X Sierra...
The future looks dark for many of us Apple fans...
I think he's referring to the lightning connection itself.
You won't be able to plug your new lightning earbuds into your Mac for example.
Software.