SV: Mac G4 midi software question

["Per Boysen" <per@boysen.se>]

> Från: Chris Roberts [mailto:cpr@musetrap.com] 

> I'm not a Mac-person, myself, but I worked at Apple for a 
> year in the 'ProMedia' group, and I can vouch for the 
> brainshare in the OS X audio group... 

That's nice to hear! I'd like to buy a new Mac in a year or two if there
will be a new product line of Apple machines with faster processors (to
be able to continue working with Logic). After leaving my old Atari in
-94 I went Mac since there were no alternatives back then. In -98 I
bought my first Windows box and now I'm using mainly PCs on WinXP. It's
true that you can get a lot more CPU power and bang for the buck along
the pc road but you really have to put some serious efforts into
learning about the parts of your machine. Not every motherboard on the
market is doing fine with every processor. The bottom line is that you
will probably run into trouble if you buy a PC for audio use  right off
the shell. If you want a strong and stable PC you have to pick the parts
and also maintain the system in a good way. I keep separate, bootable,
system partitions (hidden from each other) and never install any
software other than the audio applications into the studio partition. If
I want to use the Office Suite I reboot into that partition. 

Best wishes

Per Boysen
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