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At 11:36 PM +0100 4/21/03, Steve Goodman wrote: >"lack of hardware standardization in the PC world"? I'm afraid this must >be >substantiated with more than a flip comment. Really? I thought it was generally accepted that PC hardware can be a crapshoot. PCs and PC boards and peripherals are made by a wide variety of manufacturers and there IS a lot of shoddy merchandise out there. Since I don't use PCs myself I can only rely on the many complaints I've heard from friends who do use PCs (and who are careful to check out specific compatibility issues with different mother boards, video cards, etc.), from friends who are computer music consultants, from tech support acquaintances, and from computer music retailers. The general consensus among these people is that you have to be well informed about the specific items you are trying to assemble into a system. As for myself, the majority of my PC hardware experiences have been frustrating (PCI boards not fitting, components coming unplugged in transit, etc.). I haven't had these sorts of problems with Macs because 1) most of the major hardware is made by Apple and 2) Apple is traditionally pretty strict when it comes to specs. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com