My PC is dying, it keeps freezing and windows keeps doing startup repairs and finding naughty sectors (perhaps they are bad sectors...) when it does a disc scan at a time of its own choosing. I don't care much for the reviews I hear about Windows8, which seems to be looking like a Mac, and I am heavily reliant on my iPhone and iPad - so a Mac is getting a serious consideration.
Some of the applications that I currently use on the PC are (including the use I make of them, which may be a fraction of their potential):
Midi-illustrator - to turn easily available MIDI files into dots on lines http://www.midiillustrator.com/
Microsoft office scanning software - to control my scanner for sheet music (my scanner is otherwise old and unsupported in Win7)
cutepdf - to turn the scanned music to pdfs for use on iPad http://www.cutepdf.com/
Adobe audition - very early edition which easily allows editing of recordings from my Zoom, and overdubbing myself playing
Audacity - occasionally used same way as adobe audition http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Musescore - free notation software to transcribe dots onto lines http://musescore.com/
Smart score X midi - scan music using OCR to creat editable dots on lines (OCR not very good) http://www.musitek.com/smartscore-midi.html
I know there may be Mac versions of some of the above - but what do you use to fulfill the functions above?
Also I am interested to hear of experiences with VMware Fusion. It claims to be able to suck all the goodness out of my (ailing) PC including the operating system (Win7) and allow me to easily use my PC applications in the Mac environment. There are a couple of things I would like to do that with initially, one is my home accounting software (Quicken 2004) because it has a huge amount of current and historic information on, and may need time to find a programme that converts it all reliably - Quicken 2004 is the last version made for a UK market. The other is my SCUBA Dive Log software, though I think there are Mac apps that will convert what I have.
For the VMware Fusion, do I get a choice about what comes across, or does it do everything on the HDD (in which case I would get the Mac up and running, then uninstall lots of stuff on the PC before installing the Win7 on the Mac)? I assume all files that are brought across with Win7 are available in the Mac OS too.
Possibly too many questions for one thread!
I am thinking of getting MacBook Pro with terabite of solid state memory, BTW
Chris
Some of the applications that I currently use on the PC are (including the use I make of them, which may be a fraction of their potential):
Midi-illustrator - to turn easily available MIDI files into dots on lines http://www.midiillustrator.com/
Microsoft office scanning software - to control my scanner for sheet music (my scanner is otherwise old and unsupported in Win7)
cutepdf - to turn the scanned music to pdfs for use on iPad http://www.cutepdf.com/
Adobe audition - very early edition which easily allows editing of recordings from my Zoom, and overdubbing myself playing
Audacity - occasionally used same way as adobe audition http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Musescore - free notation software to transcribe dots onto lines http://musescore.com/
Smart score X midi - scan music using OCR to creat editable dots on lines (OCR not very good) http://www.musitek.com/smartscore-midi.html
I know there may be Mac versions of some of the above - but what do you use to fulfill the functions above?
Also I am interested to hear of experiences with VMware Fusion. It claims to be able to suck all the goodness out of my (ailing) PC including the operating system (Win7) and allow me to easily use my PC applications in the Mac environment. There are a couple of things I would like to do that with initially, one is my home accounting software (Quicken 2004) because it has a huge amount of current and historic information on, and may need time to find a programme that converts it all reliably - Quicken 2004 is the last version made for a UK market. The other is my SCUBA Dive Log software, though I think there are Mac apps that will convert what I have.
For the VMware Fusion, do I get a choice about what comes across, or does it do everything on the HDD (in which case I would get the Mac up and running, then uninstall lots of stuff on the PC before installing the Win7 on the Mac)? I assume all files that are brought across with Win7 are available in the Mac OS too.
Possibly too many questions for one thread!
I am thinking of getting MacBook Pro with terabite of solid state memory, BTW
Chris
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