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Re: [looper's] RE: macs & pretend-computers

>>>> why a Mac?
>
>One word - Reliability.
>
No offense, but I've never bought into this argument.  I've seen way too 
many Macs die on stage or in rehearsals to buy that they are any more 
reliable in general than a PC.  The main reason IMHO to use a mac is the 
software that you run on it that you can't run on a PC.  If you want to 
use Max, DP3(4), Logic, etc...  You need a mac.  I own both PCs and Macs 
and use them both for music stuff.  I've tuned my "music" PC so that it 
never crashes, ever.  The PC that I use for everything else, like e-mail, 
web, office, etc... crashes all the time, but I think that that has more 
to do with the fact of all the software that I've installed and removed 
and the kind of creeping crud that happens with any system over years of 
use.  When I was using the Mac for more than just music stuff, I was 
crashing it once or twice a week.  I finally wiped it and started from 
scratch and now it is pretty reliable, but I still wouldn't trust it as my 
sole sound source in a live environment.

    Kevin

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Kevin Goldsmith                          kevin@unitcircle.com
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