fianoman
well actually i'm no great lover of the mac platform either .
cos if i got a mac and it goes on the fritz i gotta send off to apple care.
and my studio is down.
other reason is new processor technologies are prolly coming
(as they always will do mate..eg 16 cores.),....
and i dont wanna spend big buks on say a quad core mac to find
its superceded. my basic issue with macs is you have to constantly rebuy
the whole shebang. at least on a pc desktop i can slap in
a new mainboard n processor. eg right now i can upgrade one of my old desktops
to a quad for a couple a hundred buks.
cant do that with macs.
as an alternative, check out the pc quad core lappies sometime here..
(they are also an apple dealer.)
www.adkproaudio.com
as always ymmv/i got nothing to do with em.
but they are properly configged imho.
and a good alternative to macs.

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