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Well I just bought a Apple Macbook pro with a 2.5ghz dual core processor and 250gig hard drive, and 2 gigs of ram. I am a brand new apple owner and I wanted to further my Dj career so I fest up and bought it brand new. I was just wondering what I should expect from this computer and how long do you guys think it will take for me to get used to mac os. Thanks
 
Posted Thu 27 Mar 08 @ 4:48 pm
Apple is easy to get used to once you install bootcamp :)

 
DJ Cyder wrote :
Apple is easy to get used to once you install bootcamp :)




Hahahahahahahahahaha, bootcamp, Hahahahahahahahahaha, wait I just peed on myself, Ah......Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, wait, you bought a MAC and now you have to run Windows, Ahh......Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.
 
AMaHM...I read in PC World magazine if you want your VISTA software to perform to the best of its abilities, run it on a MAC...ain't that some s&*t?
 
dj9duce wrote :
Well I just bought a Apple Macbook pro with a 2.5ghz dual core processor and 250gig hard drive, and 2 gigs of ram. I am a brand new apple owner and I wanted to further my Dj career so I fest up and bought it brand new. I was just wondering what I should expect from this computer and how long do you guys think it will take for me to get used to mac os. Thanks

I got the same thing. i was really thinking of running boot-camp, I tried & it said it won't install because I have my hard drive partitioned. So I'm really hoping 5.1 comes through.
 
So boot-camp is running windows? Where can I read up on this
 
best bet for u is run bootcamp & vista.

just google bootcamp apple. if u have leopard its already on your system.
 
Yea, mine has leopard and I get it saturday. I cant wait. Ive been bumming my work laptop for gigs. Now Im going to uprade my speakers to JBL eon2's and ill be done.....For a while
 
DJ Cyder wrote :
Apple is easy to get used to once you install bootcamp :)

Ouch...Actually dj9duce Macs are very easy to use and very stable. Now all you need to do is get software that legitimately runs on Apples OS X (operating system). Congrats on the computer I've been hearing many great things about the new MBP's.
dj9duce wrote :
Well I just bought a Apple Macbook pro with a 2.5ghz dual core processor and 250gig hard drive, and 2 gigs of ram. I am a brand new apple owner and I wanted to further my Dj career so I fest up and bought it brand new.

Well I hope you didn't buy it with expectations that it was going to work better with VDJ, hence Cyder's Bootcamp comment. If so, you may be pretty disappointed and feel like you made a $3,000 mistake.
 
He shouldn't feel too bad, I use the mac for everything else there is only one program I don't use the mac for and that Is VDJ.
 
Guys please stop, you're killing me. Well at least I bought a box of Depends with me today.
 
A Man and His Music wrote :
Guys please stop, you're killing me.


Well you know...........

MAC's are more reliable than PC's .............. EVERYONE knows that.

just like EVERYONE knows that Serato is more reliable than VDJ.


Come on Rick I thought you were smarter than that
 
Wait, wait, wait, I can't breath. AAAAAaaaaahhhhhhhhahahahahahahahahaha, 3 gran for a Mac, so I can put pucking bbbbbbbbootcamp on it, so I can run Windows? Tell me this is some kind of cruel pucking joke. Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, ah ah, ahahahahahahahahahahaha, hold it, these Depends are not working, there is pee pee all over the booth. "Gabriella, come here honey, no don't touch it. Honey, can you get me some toilet paper? I said don't touch it. Thanks honey. By the way, have you ever heard of bbbbbbbbbbbbbootcamp"? Ahahahahahahahahaha, hahahahahahahahahaha, pee pee pee. Better make that some Wet Ones.
 
well it wont be long until vdj will be like serato telling all of its users that if they want their software to run without a hitch buy a MBP. Hey I have both, and also both Serato and VDJ. ANd all I will say is both have strong points and both have weaknesses. However when I do my gigs, I am using my PC with VDJ.
 
funnyb0nz wrote :
Hey I have both, and also both Serato and VDJ. ANd all I will say is both have strong points and both have weaknesses. However when I do my gigs, I am using my PC with VDJ.


Now I like that, a very unbiased opinion. No jumping up and down, no bad mouthing, just the truth as you see it. That's all I want, because I am a big boy, and can make up my own mind. I have nothing against the Mac, because I have never used one. I just don't like most MAC owners, because of their attitudes. Everything has strong and weak points, but you will never hear that from MAC owners, except you.
 
funnyb0nz wrote :
Hey I have both, and also both Serato and VDJ. ANd all I will say is both have strong points and both have weaknesses. However when I do my gigs, I am using my PC with VDJ.


I also have both SSL and VDJ and agree 100% with the above statement. I have leaned towards VDJ but reliabilty has been a issue. I hope to get it reliable with my mac. I will have to wait and see and if not I guess ill stick with SSL.
 
DJ Cyder wrote :
He shouldn't feel too bad, I use the mac for everything else there is only one program I don't use the mac for and that Is VDJ.

Same here, I use my Windows partition for VDJ and Sony Vegas. But what I was referring to is that if he bought the $3,000 Macbook Pro for use with VDJ he was going to be disappointed.
 
A Man and His Music wrote :
Wait, wait, wait, I can't breath. AAAAAaaaaahhhhhhhhahahahahahahahahaha, 3 gran for a Mac, so I can put pucking bbbbbbbbootcamp on it, so I can run Windows? Tell me this is some kind of cruel pucking joke. Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, ah ah, ahahahahahahahahahahaha.

I agree, its very funny but also quite disappointing. I laugh (well maybe shake my head in disgust) everytime I hold down that Fu**ing option key to load Windows. For someone to spend $3,000 on one hell of a computer and then find out it works like crap for the main program they wanted to run is quite the let down.
 
funnyb0nz wrote :
well it wont be long until vdj will be like serato telling all of its users that if they want their software to run without a hitch buy a MBP. Hey I have both, and also both Serato and VDJ. ANd all I will say is both have strong points and both have weaknesses. However when I do my gigs, I am using my PC with VDJ.

That whole saga was more of an inside joke. I also have both and agree that both have their strengths and weaknesses. VDJ kills Video-SL in the realm of VOB support, video transitions, MIDI capabilities, Windows stability, ect...Video-SL kills VDJ in terms of Timecode, organization, and stability on a Mac. Depending on what kind of DJ you are should negate what program is right for you.
 
CHARL1E F1VE wrote :
I also have both and agree that both have their strengths and weaknesses. VDJ kills Video-SL in the realm of VOB support, video transitions, MIDI capabilities, Windows stability, ect...Video-SL kills VDJ in terms of Timecode, organization, and stability on a Mac. Depending on what kind of DJ you are should negate what program is right for you.


I agree
 
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