# Biting the bullet, buying a mac

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**Category:** Unrelated Discussion\
**Created:** [August 8, 2012, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/biting-the-bullet-buying-a-mac/41222 "2012-08-08T11:49:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![WarGirl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wargirl/32/1184_2.png) [@WarGirl](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/WarGirl)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/biting-the-bullet-buying-a-mac/41222/41 "2012-08-12T22:39:29Z")

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> [@WildCat23](#):
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> > [@WarGirl](#):
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> > i can tell you from experience, they most definitely record with analog microphones, and if they sell it on vinyl, they use an analog back up. (why would you want a 256kbps MP3 recording on vinyl?) [yeah, i can instantly tell the difference between a 256kbps and a 320kbps, and between a 320 and a .flac] and a low-end, consumer level audio card is not going to give you a clean recording.
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> You don’t put mp3’s on vinyl. You don’t put any digital file on vinyl. Heck, you shouldn’t even use mp3’s if you care about sound quality.

that’s what i’m saying. recording companies record onto analog media so they can put it on vinyl. and i DON’T listen to MP3’s if i can help it. if the artist sells vinyls, you can bet i have it, and have ripped it as a .flac or .wav

by the way, you technically could put a digital file like a flac or a wav on vinyl, but you’d still lose quality, so i wouldn’t do it.

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**Author:** ![pickle24](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pickle24/32/483_2.png) [@pickle24](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pickle24)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/biting-the-bullet-buying-a-mac/41222/42 "2012-08-13T00:18:35Z")

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> [@WarGirl](#):
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> > [@M²](#):
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> > Yes, but not many people ever use the integrated sound card (on just about any computer) for anything important. They just aren’t good enough, and they weren’t really made for recording. People use external sound cards, that are actually made for recording. The quality of the sound card the computer comes with his hardly ever a factor because very few computers (and certainly nothing sold by Apple) come with good enough sound cards to actually record with it.
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> exactly, so why would you buy an exorbitantly expensive laptop for “making music” when it’s an arbitrary laptop that has nothing specific to it for making music? it’s just pretty.

You wouldn’t, I agree with you completely on this. I didn’t mean to imply that macs were better, only that there were people out there who thought they were better.

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