EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

From what I hear about the new hardware that will be introduced...don't get 
your hopes up too much. Sounds like it's gonna be a very small increase. I 
agree that it is incredibly frustrating to see how much more powerful PCs are 
now...and a tweaked XP system is very solid, fast and cheap. These machines 
handle way more voices for virtual instruments than Macs do, in the tests 
that I've done.

With the rumors of 3 and 4 ghz Intel/AMD machines....man, Apple has to play 
some serious catch up!

I guess the one bit of silver lining is that once Logic Titanium is fully 
OSX, multi-processor, altivec coded, we should see some serious performance 
and stability gains, even on the same hardware.

Here's hoping!

-EP

In a message dated 7/8/02 7:39:17 PM, HELP@... writes:

>Great discussion. To be honest, as a Mac owner, things are getting mighty
>depressing. Apple used to be on the cutting edge in performance. Now Apple
>seems to use the most outdated components around (besides their terrific
>video card thanks to Nvidia). If they fall much further behind (even if
>I do
>prefer the OS), it just won't be worth it anymore. In fact, it's pretty
>much
>at that point now. If I wasn't a graphic designer, I think I'd seriously
>consider converting my music production studio over to PC and build a
>dual-processer 2.5Ghz WinXP system. I'll be honest, I really dislike
>Windows, but if Apple is going to continue to deny that megahertz are
>important while they get buried in real world test after test, I believe
>they'll lose a lot of faithful users. I can get around on a PC just fine
>if
>I must. If they keep pushing the Mac faithfuls into a performance corner,
>they'll really start losing money fast. Let's see what happens at Mac Expo.
>For the time being, my dual-800 G4 is doing very well and I'm an avid fan
>of
>Logic, so let's see how I feel 6 months or a year from now. -Jer