Is itune faster on Mac? than a Pc

Rooky007

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as you all know or may of seen I am thinking of going down the Mac route and am wondering is itune faster on it than a PC like importing music of a cd to itune and transferring to Ipod Or is it all down to specs of the machine
 
Rookies said:
as you all know or may of seen I am thinking of going down the Mac route and am wondering is iTunes faster on it than a PC like importing music of a cd to iTunes and transferring to iPod. Or is it all down to specs of the machine
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iTunes is native to Mac OS X so it runs better on Apple machines. But i've found that my PC is better at ripping music due to its faster processor, faster optical drive etc. For transferring to an iPod it is about the same between PC & Mac, the difference is negligible.
 
Will_3rd said:
iTunes is native to Mac OS X so it runs better on Apple machines. But i've found that my PC is better at ripping music due to its faster processor, faster optical drive etc. For transferring to an iPod it is about the same between PC & Mac, the difference is negligible.
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Agreed. It's generally more snappy on OSX - things like the album view work nicely on any Intel mac, where it stuttered on my PD-940/2Gb/GeForce desktop PC.

CD ripping is much faster on my MBP using an external firewire drive.
 
MagicBoy said:
Agreed. It's generally more snappy on OSX - things like the album view work nicely on any Intel mac, where it stuttered on my PD-940/2Gb/GeForce desktop PC.

CD ripping is much faster on my MBP using an external firewire drive.
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Hmm so the HD inside the Macbook is not very fast then? I dont want to go down the Macbook Pro as cant really afford it and i prefer the size of the Macbook as I want it neat and small. So what External HD your using is it a apple one?
 
Rookies said:
Hmm so the HD inside the Macbook is not very fast then?
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The standard ones are 4200rpm but you can upgrade it to a 5400rpm and with aftermarket solutions you can even buy a 7200rpm laptop hdd.

Rookies said:
So what External HD your using is it a apple one?
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MagicBoy is probably using an external desktop CD/DVD drive linked by Firewire, they are some available on the Apple website or I think you can just put on in a caddy yourself.
 
Apologies, I should have been more precise. I was referring to an external DVD-RW drive I have in a Firewire caddy.

I recycled a HDD and DVD-RW from a desktop PC and got Firewire caddies to use them with the Mac. With the benefit of hindsight it's probably best to buy external hard drives off the shelf as I've had compatibility issues (mainly with Windows) with the caddies. I'd expect that a Western Digital, Lacie etc drive would be fine.

With regard to HDDs - most laptops now use 5400 drives. I upgraded a previous Windows lappy from a 4200 to 7200 and it made a huge difference. The latest big capacity 5400 drives are not noticably any slower than a 7200. I'm perfectly happy with whatever they chose to put in my MBP.
 
Will_3rd said:
iTunes is native to Mac OS X so it runs better on Apple machines. But i've found that my PC is better at ripping music due to its faster processor, faster optical drive etc. For transferring to an iPod it is about the same between PC & Mac, the difference is negligible.
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My 1.4GHz G4 Mini rips CDs at about the same speed as my 2GHz Intel MacBook. I guess it's all down to the drive speeds nowadays.
 
Are you guys using Itune to import the cds? How do I see how fast it ripping them? It make sense thou if the cd rom is slow it rip slow if it fast then it rip fast and it move faster to read faster so really makes sense
 
punky_munky said:
My 1.4GHz G4 Mini rips CDs at about the same speed as my 2GHz Intel MacBook. I guess it's all down to the drive speeds nowadays.
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Yeah they both must have similar Laptop Optical Drives
 
Rookies said:
Are you guys using iTunes to import the cd's? How do I see how fast it ripping them? It makes sense though if the cd-rom is slow it rip slow if it fast then it rip fast and it move faster to read faster so really makes sense
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It shows how fast it ripping in the progress bar you should see a number with an "x" next to it.
 
I was under the impression that the standard drive in the macbook was 5,400rpm and only dropped to 4,200rpm if you went for the 200Gb upgrade
 
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Rookies said:
And out of interest how fast are you guys getting it when ripping on your mac? spec of the mac too so i can get an idea sorry about this
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On my 1.42Ghz 1.5GB RAM iBook, it rips CD's using the iTunes LAME plugin at 5-6x speed, so it is pretty quick a normal cd usually rips in 5-6 mins.

If you use the normal iTunes ripping options it is even quicker 2-4 mins.
 
Just ripping a cd now and it doing it 4.2x on a 1.73ghz centrino, 512mb memory 24x cd rom. Would i see much improvment jumping onto the macbook route or should i just save my money and stick with wha ti got


Edit: hmmm speed now getting around 6.8 to 7.2
 
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