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the switch
I'd been intending to purchase a new laptop for a while, and when the time rolled around I decided to try a Mac. Almost since the day it arrived I've been regretting this choice, and what I really want right now is for someone to remind me what a Mac is good for.
Its reputation as the computer of choice for making music appears to be highly overrated: my personal favorite sound synthesis program, AudioMulch, is PC only; the free version of ProTools won't run on Mac systems that don't have OS 9 installed; Max/MSP is available for both Macs and PC; and Mac-only programs like SuperCollider and SoundHack have so far proven to be completely inscrutable to the casual user. The iBooks don't even have an audio input port (although an affordable USB-enabled fix does exist; thanks CJO for digging that up).
So now I'm stuck not really wanting to use the Mac for music, but not really wanting to use it for word-processing / web design / database-making, either: I primarily use Microsoft Office for those sorts of tasks, and I don't want to get too caught up in the whole mess of having two sets of files in noncompatible formats. So what can I use the Mac for?
Maybe DevonThink? Caterina F. has high praise for it (scroll down to the July 5th entry).
Any Mac users out there who want to try to convince me not to just eBay the thing and put the money thus recouped towards a PC laptop? |
Saturday, July 24, 2004
1:08 PM
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