Why Mac??? Options

[bagadat]

hi guys... i was wondering if you could help me out here....

i work for the support department of a religious association and the association is looking to upgrade their daw to improve the quality of their products and productivity....

in our media department, my collegue records the live preacing into his pc and processes the audio... to finally burn the end product for backup...

my boss has asked me to do some research on daws and what actually goes on inside of it.... so that we might take a technical approach to either upgrading our present daw or getting something completely new...

being a pc user, i've found a lot of info about how to tweak my pc for optimum performance and what actually goes on inside of it.... the same goes for linux (although i'm not a linus user)...

but now, my boss wants to look at mac as an option too.... but i know absolutely nothing about it.... i've heard that this is what the pros use for daws... but i would like to know why???

n other words, why is mac so powerful, are the softwares that it offers good and user friendly.... what are the recommendations for a mac daw for simple speech editing and mutlitrack analogue recording in terms of HW and SW and why...

do you guys think you could help me out or at least direct me to a place where my quezies could be answered...

thanx a lot......

[erstokke]

ok.... so if i get you right... you telling me that i simply need to buy the necessary software and hardware.... and i shall be up and running.....
but will i need to do some tweaking to optimize the daw?

by the way, one more quezy... as i think i already mentioned... the guy who will work on the daw, will only be involved in speech recording and processing and once in a while, he might need to record some music... what software do you recommend?

No tweaking, no software, no hazzle.

GarageBand is included and it will probably cover all your recording needs. An iMac G5 and some extra RAM will be sufficient.

The only thing you need to buy extra, is an audio interface and a microphone.

People often make descisions on the initial cost. The first thing they do wrong, is to compare the list price of the computers. With a mac, you get great creative applications iincluded (yes, even a recording program). Firewire is included as well.

But the greatest advantage is that you will save a lot of hours on installation, learning and troubleshooting. Hours=money.

Jan Erik