Blah blah, get a Mac, don't care, suck my nuts.
Now that that's out of the way
D), in summer '08 my parents were kind enough to buy me a Rain Livebook, which has been my main computer since then. It was pretty expensive at the time (they've since gotten more reasonably priced), and I must admit feels like it's from 2001 (fat, heavy, plastic, with a fair amount of creakiness/flex), and since then, I've seen so many seemingly better-built laptops with amazing specs for less than half of what I paid for the Rain, so I was a little dubious about their claims of the extra cost going to their selection of components that work well with each other for maximum throughput and compatibility (and tweaking the OS).
However, as it turns out it may not be such BS, cuz I just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge e520 (2nd-gen i5 at 2.3 gHz, 6 GB RAM, 500 GB 7200 RPM HDD) for $680 (actually, I bought an HP Probook first, but swapped it cuz of the port placement and awful anti-glare screen), hoping it would dominate, and while I love the design and build quality, I was experiencing terrible glitches/pops/clicks with my Onyx 400F, and after calling Mackie Tech Support (and speaking with their digital support dude Sean, who was unbelievably knowledgeable and helpful, hats off
), look what I discovered in the IRQ assignments:
The Mackie dude said this stuff can't be changed, so back goes the Lenovo, and I'm gonna up the RAM on the Rain and install W7 to limp it along for another half-year or so until I can afford, well, probably another Rain Livebook! (I can get one for like $1,500 spec'ed like the Lenovo, which is acceptable) And I don't want a Mac simply because a) cost of the 15" MBP (not going any smaller), and b) I'm just so 100% entrenched in the Windows feel, application ecosystem, etc., I see no reason to bail! (AND, the current Rain Livebooks look to be a much better design than mine, whereas competitors like ADK still look super dated and cheap, though I'm sure the specs and performance are still awesome)
Now that that's out of the way
D), in summer '08 my parents were kind enough to buy me a Rain Livebook, which has been my main computer since then. It was pretty expensive at the time (they've since gotten more reasonably priced), and I must admit feels like it's from 2001 (fat, heavy, plastic, with a fair amount of creakiness/flex), and since then, I've seen so many seemingly better-built laptops with amazing specs for less than half of what I paid for the Rain, so I was a little dubious about their claims of the extra cost going to their selection of components that work well with each other for maximum throughput and compatibility (and tweaking the OS).However, as it turns out it may not be such BS, cuz I just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge e520 (2nd-gen i5 at 2.3 gHz, 6 GB RAM, 500 GB 7200 RPM HDD) for $680 (actually, I bought an HP Probook first, but swapped it cuz of the port placement and awful anti-glare screen), hoping it would dominate, and while I love the design and build quality, I was experiencing terrible glitches/pops/clicks with my Onyx 400F, and after calling Mackie Tech Support (and speaking with their digital support dude Sean, who was unbelievably knowledgeable and helpful, hats off
), look what I discovered in the IRQ assignments:
The Mackie dude said this stuff can't be changed, so back goes the Lenovo, and I'm gonna up the RAM on the Rain and install W7 to limp it along for another half-year or so until I can afford, well, probably another Rain Livebook! (I can get one for like $1,500 spec'ed like the Lenovo, which is acceptable) And I don't want a Mac simply because a) cost of the 15" MBP (not going any smaller), and b) I'm just so 100% entrenched in the Windows feel, application ecosystem, etc., I see no reason to bail! (AND, the current Rain Livebooks look to be a much better design than mine, whereas competitors like ADK still look super dated and cheap, though I'm sure the specs and performance are still awesome)
