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......

[lepetitmartien]

well…

i wonder why the mac addicts here left this subject alone ?

- systems are feature for feature price equivalent. (sometimes a bit higher, sometimes a bit lower)
- OS X is rock solid.
- No virus.
- Security issues are not a problem.
- _It_ _just_ _work_ one manufacturer means there's no compatibility issues
- It's fun. (well it may not be an argument for the boss

Optimization wise, the most important things are:

- add RAM, (1 GB is a minimum, to use virtual instruments go about 2-2.5 GB)
- use another internal Hard Drive for audio.
- and don't install little fancy stuff to see snow on the desktop for christmas (but some cool utilities/apps can run just fine along a DAW)
- for usual repair, the provided softwares are enough (some freeware like OnyX can help too)
- run audio apps in an Admin user account.

Other recent threads treat these subject already in getting started or Mac and peripherals.