7 Jan
2007
7 Jan
'07
1:27 a.m.
On 6 Jan 2007 at 16:59, Zane H. Healy wrote:
It really depends a lot on how good of a company made
the product
you're trying to use. Plus if you by Pro software I think you'll
have an easier go than with consumer grade software. I've owned a
Mac since '95, and the except for a couple of OS updates that weren't
worth running, everything has pretty much just worked, with a couple
exceptions. Getting Professional Audio Hardware and software to work
together, and the Kodak Camera's printer dock we got a few years ago.
I grabbed the first thing that came to hand and read the
requirements. This is for Sibelius 2.11 (released 2002), which is
what would probably be classified as a pro-level music notation
package (at least my publisher accepts scores written in it). It
isn't cheap--about $500-600 and upgraded almost yearly--single-system
use is enforced by a rather elaborate licensing scheme.
Mac: G4/G3/Fast PowerMac, Mac OS 8.6 to 10.1 or later (not 10.0),
15MB+ free RAM (20+ recommended) CD-ROM, 80MB hard disk space.
PC: Pentium or fast 486 (Pentium II or later recommended), Windows
95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT 4 or later, 32MB+ RAM, CD-ROM, 40MB hard disk
space.
Although I haven't tried it, I suspect that the package might run
after a fashion under Win32S under Win3.1 on a 386, given sufficient
RAM.
This may be a chance exception, but it seems to me that the x86
requirements are a lot looser than the Mac ones.
Cheers,
Chuck