Oh, but you spent lots of money on a niche product. You could have bought 2 or more $300 laptops that could do all what you want.
The iMac is really nice. The displays are nice. And it is nearly silent. A 27" iMac and a 30" external monitor would be amazing. Have you done that? How would you arrange the score with two huge displays? I my macpro is pretty quite, and I have yet to max out the processors on it. I've mixed two jazz band albums using ProTools with it, and I don't think I even got anywhere close to 1/2 of the processing power even with all the plugins I was using. And this is a 2008 model. Though think of all the $300 laptops I could have bought! For finale stuff, I have no clue how much power it uses. A big band score with the garritan sounds works fine. The only time thing I ever had the computer choke on was lots of VIs in digital performer. Basically ran out of memory. Increasing the Mac to 8 gigs solved that. But I'm using a niche product.....should have gotten a $300 laptop. It could do all that and then some. I could be on my second or third on by now. Sent from my iSomething On May 23, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Chuck Israels <cisra...@comcast.net> wrote: > The last thing I wanted to do was to start a platform war. Macs are better > for me (in my limited experience) and worth the money - for me. PCs seem to > be less expensive, and I know they work. I find them slightly more obtuse > and I am clumsier when using them, but that may be lack of experience. (I > don't know Sibelius and find it difficult, but new users find it easier to > learn than Finale, so I have to accept the fact that my judgments are > personal.) That's all I know, and from my point of view, I like Macs and am > quite satisfied with the 27" iMac. I used to have a Mac Pro and a 30" Cinema > display (that I liked), but the Mac Pro was overkill, big, and slightly > noisy. The iMac is essentially silent, and if I need to do a lot of work on > orchestral scores, I can always ad a monitor in portrait mode. > > Chuck > > > On May 23, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > >> Really? You can't use Google? Or check CNet? Check Amazon (3 of the top 5 >> are Apple Laptops, 5 of the top 10 are iMacs)? Or even check Consumer >> Reports? >> >> The evidence is out there.....plain as day. They make excellent hardware. >> #1-3 in Desktops on Amazon are held by Apple products. >> >> Point Game Match...... >> >> I don't need a fork for the Clown Pie.....it just makes a strange honking >> noise...... >> >> -- >> Eric Dannewitz >> Musician/Polymath >> On Monday, May 23, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: >>> But it's more recent than any of your links, Oh wait, you haven't >>> provided anything other than your personal stories, and that great >>> extended Apple warranty. >>> >>> Here, have a fork for your pie. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > Chuck Israels > 1310 NW Naito Parkway #807 > Portland, OR 97209-3162 > phone: (503) 926-7952 > cell phone: (360) 201-3434 > www.chuckisraels.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
