G5 With Ibm Chips Options

[petra]

Hi,

I'm getting ready to buy a new computer for my future studio. After emailing, posting messages in forums, long considerations etc. it looks like I will go in the direction of a PC.

Why? I talked to an employee of Apple, and he told me that if I buy a G4 today, I should be ready to sell it when new processors come out at the end of 2003.

I wanted to ask Mac users, what do you think about this new, what I think they call "G5" and what is it going to mean for you? Will your current software and recording hardware work with the G5?

Also, how is Cubase SX with OSX?

Please elnighten me, I might still change my mind and go Mac if it makes sense.

Petra

[gdoubleyou]

Apple doesn't want to control the computing world, they just want to capture the high end.

Apple is a much smaller company than Dell, or HP. They can make a good living catering to people with money.

The PC music software industry is on life support, Steinberg sold for a mere $25,000,000, Apple hiring Sonic Foundry's development staff, Emagic bought by Apple.

On the PC side it's hard to get users to pay $700 for an app to install on a $600 computer. Steinberg was the marketshare leader, they had about half of the PC market and over one third of the Mac market.

Their biggest problem is software piracey. Even though the total number of Mac users is smaller, the percentage of Mac users who BUY music software is higher. The Demographic for a Mac user is different.

Macs are great for music and graphics, You can get the same thing done on a PC if you learn every detail of your hardware. I own both. You have to decide PC cheaper , more time spent on research and maintenance. I prefer to spend that time making music, hardware compatibility is a no brainer on a Mac.