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Post by kcatthedog on Oct 6, 2019 6:09:48 GMT -6
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Post by gouge on Oct 6, 2019 10:50:50 GMT -6
I would be cautious with asus laptops. I've been a fan of asus gear for a long time and built many machines based around asus gear.
but for laptops I go for dell or Microsoft surface. unfortunately for asus they have a legacy of high spec laptops that suffer from heat issues and as such under perform. not to say their latest machine has this issue but i'd wait a while till real word reports are in.
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Post by Ward on Oct 6, 2019 15:48:28 GMT -6
Every leap in technology brings with it more crashes, incompatibilities and instabilities. That holds a lot of us back from taking any sort of leap.
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Post by svart on Oct 7, 2019 8:59:02 GMT -6
I'm not sure I understand the comparison between a high-end ASUS lappy and a Macbook as Mac laptops have been the same hardware as any other brand laptop for over a decade now.
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Post by gouge on Oct 7, 2019 16:13:45 GMT -6
I'm not sure I understand the comparison between a high-end ASUS lappy and a Macbook as Mac laptops have been the same hardware as any other brand laptop for over a decade now. yup. that stood out to me too. i put it down to the ill informed idea that macs are better to pc because they are "different". thats certainly the marketting. truth is for most except a very small minority pc is by far the better solutuion and i include audio in that statement. |
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Post by svart on Oct 7, 2019 16:36:46 GMT -6
I'm not sure I understand the comparison between a high-end ASUS lappy and a Macbook as Mac laptops have been the same hardware as any other brand laptop for over a decade now. yup. that stood out to me too. i put it down to the ill informed idea that macs are better to pc because they are "different". thats certainly the marketting. truth is for most except a very small minority pc is by far the better solutuion and i include audio in that statement. It's pretty clear these days that PT and Mac OS aren't the rock solid combo they once were, and I've seen a lot of video folks having issues with their editors and modern Macs. I know there's gonna be a ton of guys popping in to say "nuh uh, it works fine for me so what you say can't be true" but the truth is that windows is going down the drain too. Windows stability peaked around win 7, and then again on early 10 but since had overall been a mess. So you get your choice of marginally better stability, or more tweakability with the chance of completely trashing your OS. Either way, the hardware isn't what's making the difference. |
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Post by sirthought on Oct 17, 2019 3:57:07 GMT -6
I still feel better working audio in the Mac OS environment...and I'm typing on a Windows PC right now. A big part of it is Logic, but my whole setup with UA hardware would be more challenging to find a Windows machine where the TB card works. I see thread after thread on the UAD forum where people have bought PCs thinking they had it covered and something doesn't work. Every Mac I've tried for it hasn't had that type of issue.
I still have my first audio workstation rocking WIndows 95 and a Pentium 2 (or something like a duo core). It works! But I bought an ASUS gaming laptop in 2013 thinking I'd get something super powerful with lots of processing power. It was problematic from the start and was in the Best Buy repair shop three times before they swapped it out for us to a MBP. Windows 8 was awful, but the ASUS hardware kept failing, especially the power jack. The track pad was difficult and despite being a gaming machine, I didn't think the performance was all that special when it came to all the creative software. Kind of soured me on that brand.
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Post by Guitar on Oct 17, 2019 17:49:11 GMT -6
computer discussions are so depressing to me
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Post by Omicron9 on Oct 18, 2019 8:13:18 GMT -6
Politics, religion, OS preference.
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