Re: Mac G4 midi software question

[das <das@ubuibi.org>]

hmm a likewise situation for myself when i was working hardware at the
academy of art.....
we had 3 people running a network of over 800 g4's (os9,) with students
hammering them with over 20 applications,
meanwhile the winhell i.t. department needed 15+ people to run the admin
boxes with perhaps 6 apps for perhaps 200.

Mark wrote:

> I can't agree with you more Stuart.  I work in a company that's all
> Wintel boxes, except for our Video editing suite and the Art director
> and myself (designer/animator). I've just seen *too* many weird
> conflicts and problems on the Windows platform, even though all the
> Wintel boxes (running W2K) are just running office for the most part.
> Our web server?  Mac too.  I asked our IS guy and he said, "stability
> mostly."  All the PCs are locked down so no one can make any changes or
> install anything, but the macs are left alone.  Why?  "I just don't have
> any problems with them."
>
> But, I think there's another issue here as well.  OSX.  It's really the
> biggest reason I didn't go from my old Power Mac to a PC.  I've not yet
> tried v. 10.2, but 10.1 is like a rock.  Occasionally apps will go down,
> but the OS itself remains untouched.  It just "feels" better.  I can't
> wait until Digital Performer 4 comes out and I can stay in OSX all the
> time.  With it's built in MIDI functions and protected memory system I
> believe that now that ProTools has been ported to it, it will become the
> industry standard for music.
>