MAC versus PC. Really. Is there actually a choice?! Let me tell you a little story about installing an audio working station on PC.
Just for the past few days i have been working full-time for this new company. They have created a whole new working station for me in a... PC format.
Even though i am a MAC user, I am not saying that PC sucks. I mean, it's really cool to be able to choose the graphic card you want, the audio card, the memory etc. etc. etc. Really, you can't really do that on MACs. I mean, you can, but it costs you a whole big sum... It's just not funny.
BUT! Let's look at PCs in a different perspective.
This new working station has really one of the best stuff in it. I have 2 LCD monitors, a TV and a projector, 2GB of memory, 2.4Ghz processor... I mean, seriously... should i ask for more?! I doubt. It's really fast, the processing is smooth and all that. But that is before we started putting on the TV and the projector to it...
In order to play the TV and the projector, we sort of need a particular graphic card that allows to split the video into the following format:
Just for the past few days i have been working full-time for this new company. They have created a whole new working station for me in a... PC format.
Even though i am a MAC user, I am not saying that PC sucks. I mean, it's really cool to be able to choose the graphic card you want, the audio card, the memory etc. etc. etc. Really, you can't really do that on MACs. I mean, you can, but it costs you a whole big sum... It's just not funny.
BUT! Let's look at PCs in a different perspective.
This new working station has really one of the best stuff in it. I have 2 LCD monitors, a TV and a projector, 2GB of memory, 2.4Ghz processor... I mean, seriously... should i ask for more?! I doubt. It's really fast, the processing is smooth and all that. But that is before we started putting on the TV and the projector to it...
In order to play the TV and the projector, we sort of need a particular graphic card that allows to split the video into the following format:
- 2 monitors, 1 TV
Sounds pretty easy, doesn't it? Well... we actually had to change the graphic card, simply because the one we first bought, was not able to split the video into the setting we wanted. Fine. We changed it. Oh! By the way! At first, there was no audio coming out of the computer (i am working as an audio engineer.. i mean... an audio station without an audio card?!). It came out that we didn't install the audio driver... (and i thought they would do it for you at Sim Lim... anyway...)
So, as a little summary.. after 1 week, we actually gave back the following items that we thought would work:
So, as a little summary.. after 1 week, we actually gave back the following items that we thought would work:
- 1 graphic card
- 1 audio card (we won't use it anyway, because it came out that the motherboard we bought had already an audio card. The driver needed to be installed, that's all... They (sim Lim) could have told us earlier...)
What we had to buy was:
- 1 dual-monitor graphic card
Fine. Now comes the settings....
I have spent my entire yesterday to figure out how to get video out to the projector AND the TV. Mind you, the graphic card box had 2 adapters in it. One that was for the TV (RCA analogue adapter). In theory, that should do the work and all my little screens would be fed happily with some video input.
But no.
Somehow, the projector didn't seem to be able to get any video input. I basically ended up giving up at the end of the day, even though we managed to get the setting we wanted. The only problem was that the projector projected in red only.... So that gave me the final bell to just give up for the day...
The next morning.
I switch on the computer, thinking that everything would work now...
No. It just didn't.
Problems:
I have spent my entire yesterday to figure out how to get video out to the projector AND the TV. Mind you, the graphic card box had 2 adapters in it. One that was for the TV (RCA analogue adapter). In theory, that should do the work and all my little screens would be fed happily with some video input.
But no.
Somehow, the projector didn't seem to be able to get any video input. I basically ended up giving up at the end of the day, even though we managed to get the setting we wanted. The only problem was that the projector projected in red only.... So that gave me the final bell to just give up for the day...
The next morning.
I switch on the computer, thinking that everything would work now...
No. It just didn't.
Problems:
- the second monitor didn't have any video input
- the TV is showing fuzzy stuff
- the projector is my second monitor instead of being the third one...
Basically ****ed up.
It is 1.20pm. I came to work at 10am. I sort of figured out the settings, but my TV is fuzzy. The images would come out, but it's just not showing it properly.
If you think the TV is faulty, it's not. I checked all connection combinations and it comes out that the only common item is the connector that came along with the graphic card....!
So, yeah... we're in the afternoon already and i still can't play any video onto my TV.
That's the setting problems i have with PC.
As for MAC, for the same price that the company put into the whole PC set up, i could have bought one big 22" screen, one TV and just plug it with adapters to the G5 PowerPC. Voila.
Thus, seriously. Is there a choice?
Comments are welcomed =)
It is 1.20pm. I came to work at 10am. I sort of figured out the settings, but my TV is fuzzy. The images would come out, but it's just not showing it properly.
If you think the TV is faulty, it's not. I checked all connection combinations and it comes out that the only common item is the connector that came along with the graphic card....!
So, yeah... we're in the afternoon already and i still can't play any video onto my TV.
That's the setting problems i have with PC.
As for MAC, for the same price that the company put into the whole PC set up, i could have bought one big 22" screen, one TV and just plug it with adapters to the G5 PowerPC. Voila.
Thus, seriously. Is there a choice?
Comments are welcomed =)
