Music Producing: Mac Or Pc? Logic Or Cubase?, dilemma between bying a mac or pc Options

[suite156]

hi,

I bougt my first mac (Ibook G4) 2 weeks ago. I really love the OS. Now I am thinking about bying a desktop computer (powermac) for proffesional purpose. I'm a musician and I'd like to make pre-productions on a computer. I have been working with cubase sx on a pc so far, but my pc is no longer powerfull to serve my purposes.
If I would switch to mac, I would have to use logic (as cubase isn't really working well on mac) and buy all the software I already have on my pc. I went to the music shop who has 15 years experience in studio en audio software. He deals bought mac & pc. His answer was clear: if you buy a powermac, you pay double the price than for a pc, which will do the same job perfectly. the only difference is the OS. AND, you pay 3000 Euro, for a machine who has only 512Mb!
I respect his opinion, but I keep looking for different opinions. I want to do a serious invesment and I wonder If I should buy a mac or pc.
I use it for recording audio (not more than 8 tracks) and combinen it with midi

Can anyone help me out?
thx

fanatics & radicals, please spare me your comment. only inteliggent computer users.
fanaticism leads to aggresion.
Respecting each other choices is the better way, that's my opinion.

[Narayan]

Hi,
I have been using PC based music midi/composing softwares since about 15 years now. I have all versions of cakewalk 2 to the present Sonar. I bought a Mac powerbook G4 (upped it with 1.5 Gig RAM) last June, bought Logic express and tried composing music. To begin with, it was really frustrating, as the architecture, lingo, (in fact everything) in the Mac was so different. But after using it for over 6 months now, I feel for any studio (home of otherwise) work, Mac is much better than PC, because of its stability and other utiilities. But for MIDI work, PC is better. Now I am seriously considering connecting both computers through LAN and getting the best of both. Though I am a prolific user of the computer, these kinds of networking are a little beyond me and I have to really consult some of my friends (preferably)musicians before medling with the machines.
However, both have their merits and demerits and at the end of the day, one has to decided on what type of work he has to do before deciding on a machine.
Good Luck to all.
Narayan