Music creating

Apple recently bought the company emagic, who is well known in the music industry for their products. The reason Apple did this was to make emagic stop developing software for the windows-platform. Price/performance-aware customers had ofcourse prior to this event been running the software on much cheaper PCs but were now left with no choice than either switching to mac or switching from emagic.

Another interesting fact is that the sound-features that apple brags about in their OS X didn't actually become available until the upgrade 10.2 was released. And guess what, that upgrade wasn't for free.

Mac-users often claim that macs are silent computers and therefore good for audio-recording, but with the new Dual g4:s this is no longer true. For more information:

http://www.g4noise.com/

For some interesting benchmarks comparing the number of sound effects a computer can run simultaneously you should check the following test. It shows for example a dual G4 1Ghz compared to a Athlon XP 2200+. The Pc gets twice the performance of the mac.

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