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In Reply to: RE: The review I read... posted by Sprezza Tura on March 18, 2015 at 18:05:42
...the Isaacson's Jobs' biography.
It's fascinating and really captures the way the Apple computers were designed from the beginning up to his death.
They were unique and broke new ground changing the way computers were made.
I respect them but have never felt the premium price was worth it for a product that will be obsolete in about 4 years.
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...my daughter and wife both use iPads and we all have iPhones.
My daughter started with Macs in school and continues to love them.
We use PCs with about a 4 year lifespan same as Macs.
...same here, ipads and iphones, and a mac mini with hard drives attached as a NAS...but if you spend time here you would have seen the propagation of the myth of the Mac as a SOTA file playback component.
I find the PC a necessity for high quality audio playback because the available software is much more powerful. Otherwise, I think I'd prefer a Mac for home use -- the hardware is the same, made in the same factories with the same components, but OS X is a better operating system than Windows, which in recent years has been getting worse rather than better with each succeeding generation.
The OS is better. No doubt about it my mind.
Agreed. It's frustrating that the software I want is only available on Windows and that Apple charges so much for its more capable machines.
Apple charges more for their machines, because the are still roughly 5% of the market. If not for the iPod/iPhone they would have been acquired.
Curious, what software that use on Windows do you find no compatible package for Mac.
On the Audio processing side I find I want for nothing...but you may have different needs.
Also love the driverless factor.
I'm thinking of programs like Acourate. If you're doing room or driver correction or digital crossovers, the PC has a decided advantage over the Mac, or at least it did last time I looked into it. Whereas if you're just doing a straightforward audio server or HTPC, I don't think there's any need for Windows.
You could also create room correction filters in a PC and then convolve them in the Mac, but that seems awkward, at least if like me you don't have a serious laptop . . .
Gotcha. Since my computer is no where near my stereo..it acts a NAS and library management center.
Makes sense. I keep my own computer in another room to eliminate fan noise and I love the arrangement but it's a bit of a PITA to run the cables. I don't want a dedicated HTPC though because I like to work/surf/etc. in my listening room.
I don't disagree about breaking new ground, and quite frankly the OS is far more elegant than Windows.
The built in premium is often hard to swallow, although the iPad Air I think was fairly priced.
It may even be that some Apple products are obsolete quite a bit sooner than 4 years.
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