It's true. My avatar shows someone like me running a large computer, which is the same thing that I did back in 1963. I learned to hate computers then, and I just tolerate them now. Many here, mostly because of your assigned profession probably have to use computers extensively to function. I have not found it as necessary, until recently, and now I am coming up from behind, so to speak.
Just as with any other system if you can quantify it and then lock down the system it can be stable and perform well for a long time. This is the problem with personal PCs & Macs. They are on the internet with OS and application updates pushed to them which can cause instabilities.
Having been the admin for over a hundred PCs and macs in a production environment, I found it much easier to control them...they were not on the internet and were only updated when a hardware change was made. In that environment the only failures were due to hardware failures.
Idiots from the front office, when showing off production equipment to customers would tell me: "You should update that DVD line, it is running some old version of Windows, we want customers to think we are leading-edge technology!" After telling them over and over why I did not I just learned to ignore them...
Cheers,
Howie
Are you going now to use some SPICE software and design new amps different from what you ever designed?🙂
John, judging by the screenshots you've posted previously, you're on a Mac. If I can be of any assistence, just let me know. Seriously 🙂
I've learned so much from you over the years, so I'll be more than happy to give back if I can.
(I've been on a Mac since 1997 and consider myself a "power user" when it comes to audio apps).
I don’t do Windows, but everyone serious about using a Mac for a hifi source should have an application like PureMusic that takes over the machine and bypass all the stuff that is done to make audio use transparent across devices for the easy use of non-fanatical users.
dave
Funny that's about when I got off MAC's and switched to _NIX. We worked with Apple on several projects and, not to go into it, their attitude, etc. turned me off.
From before Apple became NeXT and all the good stuff happened.
I have been using them since 1984.
dave
Mac has always been the platform of choice for creative people in music and desktop publishing industries 🙂
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I continue to design amplifiers like I did over 50 years ago, mostly just refining them without using SPICE. I have the new Parasound JC1+ out now and I will take you on when it comes to listening test comparisons.
I work with multiple VT100 sessions across the screen every day. I still find Vi oddly comfortable, at least until I forget the right command and bork something.
DTP maybe, not necessarily the case in graphic or music production, but maybe in small shops. Our graphics stations tended to be either Unix or Windows based, the reason being they had the capability of utilizing much more RAM than the Apple products. Formatting a large offset press layout running high resolution was beyond available Apple machines capability. All of our CD-Audio formatting and production equipment ran on Windows machines due to the ability of multi-CPU mobos, more RAM, and running multiple NICs needed for the more complex networking.
Individual artists creating disc art in the 1990s did indeed use Macs for the most part, although not all. In the 2000s there was a trend to move to the Win versions of Adobe apps due to higher speed available CPUs and more RAM leading to better performance for much less money.
Cheers!
Howie
Hey Scott, it's a great way to weed out the fanboys! Seriously, I view it as a screwdriver: you do not use an operating system, you use an application. You pick the apps you want to run, and that determines the best OS to run them on. It would be stupid to claim a Philips screwdriver was best for all screws...
Cheers!
Howie
Howie, I agree 100% with what you say about production and manufacturing enviroment, but I was talking about artists and musicians, the right-brained people. They absolutely don't want to deal with booting into BIOS, command line stuff or configuring some "stupid drivers".
P.S. I hate that stuff too 😀
P.S. I hate that stuff too 😀
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