Octave HS-1

[ian_dissonance]

Windows works fine for live as long as you know what you’re doing. If you want to use your laptop to look at boobs between gigs probably stick with Apple.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Windows works fine for live as long as you know what you’re doing. If you want to use your laptop to look at boobs between gigs probably stick with Apple.

I do know what I'm doing. Doesn't mean I trust Windows 11. If it was Windows 10, then perhaps.

 

[dws2384]

Windows works fine for live as long as you know what you’re doing. If you want to use your laptop to look at boobs between gigs probably stick with Apple.

Windows is fine, its just that M series macs in the price range were talking about are pretty hard to beat for audio processing.

 

[ian_dissonance]

haven’t had any issues

Windows is fine, its just that M series macs in the price range were talking about are pretty hard to beat for audio processing.

sure, and a PC with a better processor, an interface, and a small midi controller would be exponentially less.

 

[Whizzinby]

“Obsolete”

 

[paisleywookiee]

haven’t had any issues

sure, and a PC with a better processor, an interface, and a small midi controller would be exponentially less.

A PC with a better processor than an M5, for exponentially less? That’s fascinating.

 

[Orvillain]

A PC with a better processor than an M5, for exponentially less? That’s fascinating.

Just for shits and giggles, I just costed up an M5 Pro Macbook Pro, 16inch, nano texture display, with 4TB of space.

£3849.

That's kind of insane. Even if I drop the extras, it is still £2699. And it doesn't come with the power adapter anymore. big belly lols.

My AMD 5950X setup that I built in 2020 is still going strong, and even accounting for the 4090 I added, I'm still less than the cost of the M5, and the 5950X chip is really no slouch and still absolutely whizzes through anything I throw at it. I've built such a great machine - very stable, performs exceptionally in every area - that upgrading to anything else even almost a full 6 years later, makes very little sense for me. But even if I did, I'd just need a new motherboard and CPU, maybe RAM. Don't need to recycle the whole thing.

I'm writing this on my Macbook M1 Pro; which I got in 2021. That's still going strong too. Feel zero need to upgrade. Oh... and the trade in value with Apple? £385. Another big belly lol !!

 

[ian_dissonance]

A PC with a better processor than an M5, for exponentially less? That’s fascinating.

No, a better processor than a Celeron.