My mom is getting an iMac!

[SpreadsPlague]

Well, Macintosh is made to program, so it must have better programming tools.

pass the weed bro

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[Mr.jacksaunt]

That's a 17-inch one.  Also, is yours a laptop?  I can't think of any 17 inch laptops with similar specs going for $800. 

I have an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop, with a Radeon 6750m and a Radeon 6620 (MBP has 6750 and Intel 3000). I have an AMD A8 quad core clocked at 1.8 ghz, 8gb of ram, a 15.6 inch screen size and a 5400rpm 600 gb hard drive.

[Menen]

Half of the price tag is actually the Logo

[Bisjac]

Well, Macintosh is made to program, so it must have better programming tools.

nope and nope lol

leave it to a mac user to know so little about computers lol

[Marcem]

I have an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop, with a Radeon 6750m and a Radeon 6620 (MBP has 6750 and Intel 3000). I have an AMD A8 quad core clocked at 1.8 ghz, 8gb of ram, a 15.6 inch screen size and a 5400rpm 600 gb hard drive.

You cannot say a 1.8 ghz processor is about the same as 2.3 ghz, also you have a 15.6 inch screen at 1366x768, the Mac has a 17 inch screen at 1920x1200.  Other than that, yes, Macs are much more expensive.  At least you get good build quality from Apple.  My brothers have had 3 dv6s and my parents once had a dv7.  Two of the dv6s died out, one suffered from random freezing, we never figured out why and the other had another hardware error and couldn't run at all.  The dv7 ended up with a column of dead pixels and the graphics chip died out.  The only living HP laptop, the last dv6, had its D key malfunction horribly.

[Blockomanian]

Why, yes, I love paying extra for having Audacity built in!

seeing as though I cannot see emotional expressions and tone of voice over the internet I am going with the benefit of the doubt

are you loving handicapped? Audacity only mixes/modifies music. Yes, garageband does that too, but I can also create music in it, with more that just loops. 

And if indeed that was sarcasm and you did know the difference and you tried to be funny,
ok.

[DontCare4Free]

are you loving handicapped? Audacity only mixes/modifies music. Yes, garageband does that too, but I can also create music in it, with more that just loops. 

Last time I checked Audacity was able to record music too. For "creating" it directly, after a quick search I found a neat list listing quite a few free MIDI editors for Windows.

[Mr.jacksaunt]

You cannot say a 1.8 ghz processor is about the same as 2.3 ghz, also you have a 15.6 inch screen at 1366x768, the Mac has a 17 inch screen at 1920x1200.  Other than that, yes, Macs are much more expensive.  At least you get good build quality from Apple.  My brothers have had 3 dv6s and my parents once had a dv7.  Two of the dv6s died out, one suffered from random freezing, we never figured out why and the other had another hardware error and couldn't run at all.  The dv7 ended up with a column of dead pixels and the graphics chip died out.  The only living HP laptop, the last dv6, had its D key malfunction horribly.

Build quality is not the best like you said, but I was comparing the two computers mostly due to the fact that they have dual graphics 6750m cards. Processors aren't too big today, and even if you needed that much power A8 processors can easily be overclocked to much higher.

[Sheath]

He didn't know what a Personal Computer was

"Mac" as a brand is not a hardware specific term, so I wouldn't say so, no.

Last time I checked Audacity was able to record music too. For "creating" it directly, after a quick search I found a neat list listing quite a few free MIDI editors for Windows.

That is nothing as nice as Garageband. Good try but no.

Audacity can run on Mac if you wanted it anyway.

[DontCare4Free]

That is nothing as nice as Garageband. Good try but no.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. You are joking, right? Right?

[Tammy]

GarageBand Audacity are completely different classes of programs. Audacity is a recorder, wave editor and converter. GarageBand is a full music creation program.

GarageBand is a very well polished application. It doesn't have a ton of features for an advanced user or a professional, but it is very polished and meets the casual users needs.

[DontCare4Free]

GarageBand Audacity are completely different classes of programs. Audacity is a recorder, wave editor and converter. GarageBand is a full music creation program.

Okay then. I'd rather use the Cubase that was included with my cheap "music creation" sound card. Sound card + new computer would still be cheaper than buying a mac. The amount of people who would actually use this, compared to the number of people who buys a computer, is very small. Thus there is no point in including it (and it's cost) in the price of the computer.

GarageBand is a very well polished application. It doesn't have a ton of features for an advanced user or a professional, but it is very polished and meets the casual users needs.

VLC does what most casual users need. The amount of "casual music creators who don't need anything that Big Steve^® doesn't say you need" is probably extremely small; either you don't even try to, or you are at least somewhat serious about it.

[Marcem]

VLC does what most casual users need. The amount of "casual music creators who don't need anything that Big Steve^® doesn't say you need" is probably extremely small; either you don't even try to, or you are at least somewhat serious about it.

Are you comparing Garage Band and VLC?  And for that matter, are you comparing Cubase and Garage Band?  They're completely different things.

[Sheath]

HAHAHAHAHAHA. You are joking, right? Right?

What is funny? You are just a classic anti-Mac antagonist. Look at you, trying to suggest Audacity could even be compared to it.

There are no programs that offer such a high level of polish, usability, virtual instruments / synthesizing customization, loops, effects, and tools. Its a full featured audio creation suite, that simply doesn't have a worthy Windows counterpart.

[DontCare4Free]

Are you comparing Garage Band and VLC?  And for that matter, are you comparing Cubase and Garage Band?  They're completely different things.

No, I'm saying that the amount of people who need more than VLC (that is, they need to actually edit/record stuff) but who would go for the "shiny"/"easy" thing (Garage Band) instead of the feature-rich thing (Cubase) is pretty small, as well as an area that shouldn't be encouraged.

There are no programs that offer such a high level of polish, usability, virtual instruments / synthesizing customization, loops, effects, and tools. Its a full featured audio creation suite, that simply doesn't have a worthy Windows counterpart.

I think my sarcasm detector is starting to break, I should probably go to sleep soon.