At 4:16 PM -0800 1/6/07, Fred Cisin wrote:
Although the "Mac culture" denies it
vehemently, and claims that
"everything just works when you connect it", I think that it is
pretty much identical to the PC world of that time.
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.
One really important thing to have a nice stable well behaved Mac has
been to stay away from 3rd party OS extensions. I've done that for
my last 3 systems, as a result they've been rock solid.
I have yet to see things on the Windows side of the computer world be
anywhere near as simple as with a Mac.
Zane
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