If you go to the blog on my website, you'll see that we're testing a new Dell Precision T5500 workstation that they graciously gave us so we can dip our toes into the Windows 7 waters. I've got two or three blogs on there so far. biscardicreative.com It's a pretty stout machine with 48GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 4000 card with the AJA Kona LHi and I just installed the ATTO R380 for high speed storage.
After NAB we'll be testing the new ProMax One machine which is an absolute beast that pretty much looks like a Mac Pro but can come loaded with 18TB of internal storage and gobs of RAM. Pricey too, but we're going to give it a spin after the show is over.
What I can tell you is that so far, once the applications start running, you kind of forget you're in a Windows world. We have both Avid MC 6 and the entire Adobe CS suite running on there. All run snappy. On the advice of friends on Twitter I found StarDock which puts essentially a Mac OS Dock on the desktop which gives me the familier Mac application launching that I like.
The biggest frustration honestly is just trying to format a drive. I'm so used to just "This drive is not readable would you like to initialize" and then one click, done. So far with Windows 7 it's a bunch of steps to get the drive recognized and then formatted the right way. It should not be that hard!
But Windows 7 is definitely the smoothest Windows operating systems I've run on the "dark side."
Like you I switched to Avid / Adobe in part because now we can go platform agnostic as we upgrade the machines throughout our facility. Good luck!
Walter
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Michael" <michaelh@...> wrote:
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> Hi List,
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> After 20 years with Avid and FCP on Macs, I'm facing the possibility of converting to PCs for reasons everyone here knows. Since I cut FCP out of my life a little while ago, I can be OS agnostic.
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> My problem is that I (and all of my colleagues) know NOTHING about PCs or Windows. We're clueless. I haven't used a PC since the days of "copy a: b:" I have no religious devotion to Apple; it's simply what I know.
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> But now I may have to dip my foot in PC waters and I don't know where to start. Does anyone know of a book, web article or training video for people like me? I don't mean a "computers for idiots" type of guide. Something for people who know the Mac platform well and want to draw on that knowledge as they learn Windows.
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> I've tried Googling for this and haven't had much luck.
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> Maybe I should try Bing.
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> Michael Heldman
> Spot Welders
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