Cubase on Pc or a Mac ?

C’mon, the point isn’t that important. It’s not worth your effort or any ruckus.


People use what they like and both Windows and OSX platforms work fine.
There. We’re done. We can all go home now.

I’ve been working for 20 years with both OS’s and this is what I found out : since XP and even more with W7 (didn’t test 8 yet) the performances of MAC and Windows are equivalent, a mac is really “plug and play” when a custom PC is more “plug and pray”, however if your budget is less than $4.000 I’d go for a PC…and a prayer :wink:

OK, so Hans Zimmer switched to PC because he can no longer afford a mac. And he’s willing to live with an “unreliable” machine that requires prayer to work because, after all, what he does isn’t very important.

Yeah, that makes sense. :unamused:

Prayers don’t actually work in reality, unless one relies on lucky coincidences and pure chance. Diligent research, on the other hand, coupled with the scientific method actually does work more often than not.

To the OP. I would urge you to ignore anecdotes. You’ll hear horror stories from both camps. They are meaningless. Do some research. If you still think it viable to spend the extra on a MAC then go with that. Other wise build a powerful PC with quality components and have enough left over to buy a good UAD-2 system, or similar.

I’m sorry but I don’t believe a word of what you’re saying.

You have fully proven that.

You have stated that PC’s are inferior machines (without providing an ounce of evidence of course), so it wouldn’t make any sense for you to use them.

Nope never said that. That is your conclusion after I said that I prefer MACs to run Cubase, Never said anything about other programs, filesystems and workflows. Believe it or not, I use PCs for almost anything else.

fanboy

Wonder where that came from? since I have 5 PCs 2 MACs and use PC for almost anything else than Cubase.

defame Mr. Curigliano

Nope, not my goal. Just a fact that benchmarks are just benchmarks and can only be concluded for the computers, and that is the actual used computers and NOT the make, involved. It is a common mistake to believe anything else. Common, but a mistake never the less. I do fully believe that the benchmark has been carried out and that the results are presented correctly. However that is all I can pull out of it. As mentioned the benchmark involves too few computers to make any significant value to the public in general. Read up on statistics.

Making claims with zero evidence

What kind of dictatorship is this? The question was NOT for evidence at all, just my experience. Testing approx 20 computers is my experience. I do NOT claim this to be statically better than ANYBODY else’s experience or better statistically than any other benchmarks, but it IS my experience.

scientific test

You reveal yourself as no scientist. The test is not even close to fall under those terms. It would need thousands of computers.

Grow up.

You are in a no-sense PC/mac computer battlefield and you are forgetting the more important feature: Cubase/Nuendo are both multiplatform compatible. You use software (master) on hardware (slave)- reverse this relationship is a mistake. I have used cubase/nuendo on mac since 2001 and perhaps my next computer could be a PC
If you know well windows OS go on PC. Do you like mac “pussycat” OS? go on mac (is the choice for a lot of cubase pro users). Moreover, PC/mac can live together: ie. a macmini Cubase master Ethernet wired to a PC VEP-slaved with full samplers libraries onboard… I think yo must be guided for OS knowledge and budget in your choice

A good point, Logic Pro and Sonar users don’t have the luxury of choosing platforms. I started out on PC, moved to Mac, and have an open choice as far as my next system goes. I’ll just say that Cubase has worked well for me on a Mac and I tend not to worry too much about benchmarks.

If you have to take your computer to the Geek Squad every time something goes wrong with it AND you can afford the Mac, go for the MAC. You will sacrifice some control over your computer such as ability to tweak settings, hardware options, software available, and a slight decrease in general performance. Some applications (Logic and Safari, for example) DO run better on Mac than PC. This restrictive environment that Apple products live in has helped them gain their reputation as a more stable, easier to use platform. It is true that if you lock yourself in your closet with an air purifier, you will get sick less often and it is also true that if you have trouble understanding computers, you will find an interface with less buttons and less options easier to use. You won’t be targeted by hackers as much because most of the world, and most importantly, most corporations and governments, are on WIndows. They are able to use Windows because they have IT departments with people that understand how to configure, troubleshoot, and repair computers and they don’t have to take their computers to the Geek Squad to configure them or diagnose and replace an occasional bad drive, memory card, or fix a conflict between two pieces of hardware or software.

I own an i7 iMac. My wife prefers it (she thinks computers are magic). She calls it, “the Facebook computer”. I do use it for surfing, e-mail, etc. But for music (Cubase, Guitar Rig, Reaktor, Kontakt, etc.), I personally prefer the PC. I also admit to occasional gaming such as Skyrim and Unreal Tournament III which are not available (natively at least) on the Mac. I speculate the Mac would struggle with the video requirements anyway.

dark blue man is correct, in my opinion, that PC’s do not require prayer to use successfully. They do require a larger working knowledge of computers. I see many more “advanced options” checkboxes on Windows than on OSX. It is my opinion, that Apple decided since most users are more likely to screw things up using advanced options, they just took them away. I would rather have the options.

I used to wonder why everyone who raves about Apple seemed to be saying the same things about the switch from Windows, right down to emphasizing the same syllables. “Everything just works on a Mac.”, “I was tired of the endless updates on Windows.”, “Windows kept getting viruses and crashing.” When I got the iMac I figured out why. If you film the screen in slow motion, every 60th frame displays these chants (its in greyscale so its hard to see, but it’s there.) I also found it strange that most people I meet, when they pull out their MacBook start defending it right away. Somewhat like a guy who drives up in a mini-van and gets out saying (before anyone else says anything), “It’s my wife’s. She needed it to take the kids to soccer practice.”

Another good advantage to a Mac is that if you have any friends with electric cars or solar panels on their roof, you can show them your Mac and they will like you more.

I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
J.L.

children children this argument will carry through the other side of the apocalypse ,what about ATARI ???

Amiga is better!

right that’s it , it’s WAR !!! :smiley: :smiley:

The last resort of the fanboi emotionally attached to his toy after he loses an argument: insults and slander. Thank you for proving my point. But then again, it’s not like you can defend your position any other way.

No matter how much you keep slandering Mr. Curigliano’s benchmarks, remember that you have only provided very dubious anecdotal stories, contradicted by many people here, including the Apple users I quoted (you see, you CAN be a user and not a fanboi like you.) And the more you insult him, the more your credibility goes south. If you ever had any. Frankly, I haven’t seen it.

I give up. I can´t fight ignorance.

I have fond memories of the Amiga and often wish I’d kept it out of nostalgia (same goes for my 1969 Strat and my Gibson SG standard, but that’s another story, sigh!). But It got me started making music. All I had to begin with’ was a home brewed MIDI interface and a Roland U20 and a ridiculously complicated sequencer called Music X… memories :ugeek:

But alas, someone had the foresight to include a built in MIDI interface with the Atari, which made them popular with musos and the rest is history, isn’t it? Still, just the mention of the Amiga stings these memories.

If some had told me the that thirty years later we’d be doing what we do now it would have sounded like magic.

Sorry to report this but you gave up when you told him to “grow up”. The ad hominem fallacy is always the last refuse in any debate. Please take that as a point of order, not a personal attack.

@edz: If you don’t mind rolling up your sleeves and building your own PC, I’d suggest you do it. If you decide to go hackintosh, you’ll have to do some research and purchase hardware that’s compatible with the MAC OS. It takes a little work to get OSX running on a Hackintosh platform, but well worth it if you don’t want to spend the money for a true blue MAC. My personal recommendation is to go with Windows 7 x64. If you make the machine a dual-boot, you can have the best of both worlds.

If you prefer MAC over PC (or vice-versa) that’s cool. Use whatever works best for you and use whatever is comfortable for you. Personally, I own a homebrew PC and a MAC mini. I use the PC exclusively for digital music.

But that’s me. :slight_smile: Your Mileage May Vary.

Best,
:Miki.

I have Mac, PC and Hackintosh. I can’t use Cubase 7 on any of them without problems!

I prefer Mac over PC. Not because I’m a fanboy, but because the OS is more elegant. That’s all it boils down to for me.

I will add that after 20+ years of using Cubase around the clock, I find Mac less troublesome and when I do run into problems, they are nowhere near as sever as those on PC. Let the debate continue!!!

what arguing on a thread about which is best ??? :laughing:
just be thankful there’s a choice kiddy winkles !

And you don’t think that sentence wasn’t fanboyish?

How do you define “elegancy” of an OS? And why do you think MacOS is more “elegant”?