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Alas, I don't know what kind of implementation guys you folks had, but they didn't know what they were doing on the Windows machines that are reported as repeat-crashers. The only crashes I've had in the past 6 years on my machines here have been 1 virus-related (1998), two hard drive failures (1998 and 2001, separate drives), two registry corruptions during beta tests (and by this I don't mean the "free software" most folks think "beta" means these days), and an upgrade experiment gone wrong migrating between motherboards (a clean install is always best). I don't have any cheap or knockoff components, and do quite a bit of both video and audio editing and recording. I more than suspect that it's situations like this that most folks don't hear about. Most of us on the PC end running successful installs etc. are usually too busy getting something done to allow for the time it takes to re-gen installs - and, in over ten years of supporting PCs in the business environment, perhaps 5% of the hardware/software implementations I've worked on or otherwise maintained have had problems. Most of those had to do with guys who couldn't keep their damned hands off settings and other tweaks they'd read about in PC Mag etc. - and only when they'd not be able to undo their own damage, I got called up to put it back together. Funny about that though, I've only had men do this to their PCs, never women, who probably just want to do their job (not being a PC expert) and get on with it. So much for that. > 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. > > > > > > >