Hidden Driveways wrote:lunabass wrote:....
I used a PC for 6 years. In 2004 the studio I had where we ran Sonar as our DAW got hit by some nasty worms. I was used to debugging worms and I was the one who would search the internet to find out what I needed to do to deworm the PC. It took a half hour sometimes, sometimes an hour. Some worms and viruses would plague us for weeks. Then we got hit by something bad. My roommate/studiomate at the time had an important session coming up so a audio friend of our lent us his PC.
Before we set up his computer we went to Radio Shack and bought a wired router and Norton Internet security software for the borrowed PC. I installed everything. I swear, as soon as I loaded that Internet Security CD all hell broke loose. The software literally made us a virus magnet. It was so bad that the Norton icon on the desktop was immovable. You couldn't throw it way, move it, click on it, nothing. Within minutes of going online we had the Master Blaster virus. The session was ruined. The dude took his PC back, and I don't know what became of it. I got my tax return the next week and went out and bought a G5 tower. Sonar couldn't run on it, so in my search for a new DAW I found this lovely little program called Live 2. <3 <3
o0o wrote:...I am asserting that you just claimed that Apple Computers have never had an error. I have proved this with a tool called Google...
I think there were still a few more problems in 2004 - Xp was still only 2 years old, and I don't even think Sp1 was out then - SP1 and more so SP2 fixed a lot because MS finally stepped up and took some responsibility rather than always forcing people to get 3rd party tools, since SP2 in particular things have been pretty solid ever since really
You can't stick XP on the net without SP1 because there are so many holes, but from SP2 on you're pretty safe
SP3 is going well for me too
Some retailers still will ship with XP
TBH - every now and then I wish I had a mac, but then I remember plug-ins that I'd lose because I can't or wont pay to update them, and believe it or not I have personally experienced more crashes and problems with Macs
with macs it in my experience it's always tended to be irritating stuff like "unable to save document . error-10" and that;s it - no, save as, no other warning, just a 'too bad'
personally I think the biggest fatal flaw with macs is that attempt to hide everything from the user, which just means you come across situations where something wont work and it doesnt tell you why or what you can do about it
I was at a mate's the other day, brand new iMac in his studio, we were trying to work the LE version of BFD that came with his MPD32 and it just said 'cannot run CSP' or something when we tried to install the drum sounds. That was the end of it.
In PC land there are usually so many other users around you can find solutions really quick via google from other people who've been there
I really like a lot of things about Macs, but every time I seriously think about getting one, practicality always wins out and I realise I'm better off with a PC - not saying it's the same for everyone, but your 2004 experiences are from the olden days IMO, not common now
