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(Forgive me if the Mac vs. PC thing has been covered already; I didn't see anything)
So I have a paid copy of 14.4, and I'm going to upgrade to 15 -- thanks for the great pricing Spoon! It's appreciated! -- but I'm wondering which is the best platform.
My choices:
1. My current set up: A Windows 7 desktop box, with 3 drives, one of which some program (dbpoweramp? EaC?) thinks is great for ripping. It's so old it's not even a DVD writer, just a reader. Anyway, I have that and 2 other drives to choose from.
2. An early 2011 Macbook Pro setup with an internal Superdrive (this is the last 15" model to have a superdrive, before the Retina models)
3. The same computer, (or a 2014 15" Retina Macbook Pro, actually, although I can't imagine this matters much) with an external USB Superdrive.
4* A Macbook with some other external USB drive that someone recommends as being awesome.
My intuition is that sticking with the Windows machine is probably "best" for accurate rips, etc. But before I pay for the upgrade, I just figured I'd ask. I don't use that machine for anything OTHER than ripping, so there might be value in never having to boot it again. =] But if Windows is preferred over the Mac, I'll stick with it.
SIDE NOTE: I paid a company to do my ripping for me, thinking that it made sense to just throw money at the problem. I regret the decision. The process was relatively painful, took forever, and the results were less than stellar. Luckily, they refunded my money, but it gives me an appreciation for the dbpoweramp product -- which is what the professionals use, of course -- and the ability to do this on my own.
Thank you, Spoon!
So I have a paid copy of 14.4, and I'm going to upgrade to 15 -- thanks for the great pricing Spoon! It's appreciated! -- but I'm wondering which is the best platform.
My choices:
1. My current set up: A Windows 7 desktop box, with 3 drives, one of which some program (dbpoweramp? EaC?) thinks is great for ripping. It's so old it's not even a DVD writer, just a reader. Anyway, I have that and 2 other drives to choose from.
2. An early 2011 Macbook Pro setup with an internal Superdrive (this is the last 15" model to have a superdrive, before the Retina models)
3. The same computer, (or a 2014 15" Retina Macbook Pro, actually, although I can't imagine this matters much) with an external USB Superdrive.
4* A Macbook with some other external USB drive that someone recommends as being awesome.
My intuition is that sticking with the Windows machine is probably "best" for accurate rips, etc. But before I pay for the upgrade, I just figured I'd ask. I don't use that machine for anything OTHER than ripping, so there might be value in never having to boot it again. =] But if Windows is preferred over the Mac, I'll stick with it.
SIDE NOTE: I paid a company to do my ripping for me, thinking that it made sense to just throw money at the problem. I regret the decision. The process was relatively painful, took forever, and the results were less than stellar. Luckily, they refunded my money, but it gives me an appreciation for the dbpoweramp product -- which is what the professionals use, of course -- and the ability to do this on my own.
Thank you, Spoon!
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