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doppelkorn

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  1. Weird, I swear I replied to that last post Dirk, and your post Acts...

     

    @d1rk: I would if I needed the pure grunt, but I don't really.

     

    @Acts: I could say pretty much the exact same thing (dates and all) about my Dell Studio. I'm never convinced by stories like yours because it's often people who have poorly- maintained, sub-£500 PCs switching to c. £1k Macs and going "OMG it's so much faster!!". Not saying your story is necessarily the same...

     

    Aaaaaaaaaaanyway - the other night (when I thought I replied to the above posts) I did some online research as to exactly why people say Macs make them more productive. I always hear about how the "workflow is so much easier" and "it's intuitive" but I wanted to know what that actually meant. I found this long post form a web dev saying what specific features make him more productive in Windows (and discovered a few useful shortcut keys myself). This counter-argument for Mac falls a bit short for me because things like Expose just seem like a complicated version of the windows taskbar. I dunno.

     

    From having watched some music SW tutorial vids where the demo was on a Mac it looks like the internal midi/audio connectivity on a Mac is natively much smarter, like Chris says. That's a plus.

     

    I''ll have to go and have a play at the Apple store and have a proper mess with Win10. The lead dev at work has a Macbook so I'll also ask him what he sees in it...

  2. My dad needs a new desktop and monitor. Last night I went through it all with him on the phone and he eckoned there were deals for towers at about £100. I had a quick look and for a tower with 4GB memory and a 500GB HDD you're looking at £250-ish. He asked me what sort of spec he should be looking at and I said office desktops basically reached a point of being powerful enough years ago, they're just getting smaller!

     

    Any recommendations in that arena? It's been years since I bought a computer.

     

    Which brings me on to point 2.

     

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    I'm after a new computer.

     

    From runner is the Surface Pro 4 when it lands but they're effing expensive and I don't like the Microsoft account bollocks. I'd mainly be using it for sit-down browsing in front of the TV, MS Office if I had to do work from home and possibly some messing about with music/coding/puredata, although I might retain my old Dell Studio as a music-only machine once I've cleaned it up.

     

    I'd also possibly like a docking station so I can run it over dual screens and with a trad keyboard/mouse if needed.

     

    My other option is...da, da, daaaaaaaaaaaaa! A MACBOOK.

     

    I never thought I'd see the day when I say this.

     

    Truth is, I'm now a married man soon to be 30 and I bring home a decent-ish wage. The wife just got an iPad at the weekend and I feel I'm lagging behind. The lead dev at work has a Macbook. They're nice machines, sure. The sad fact is I know I'll need to use Office on them and I've heard the Office experience is a bit bonk. I suppose if I did get one I'd use it for everything (browsing, work, music etc.), so I could fully ditch the Dell, but what about docking stations ans secondary monitors. Questions, questions.

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