Re: [Avid-L2] New Mac Pro

I'm with Terry. Have been on Mac since the original 1984 version. Am all Mac at home. Mac on laptop. But half Mac/half PC at the office, where I prefer running Avid on PC. I switch back and forth fairly seamlessly, though the control/command key muscle memory usually kicks in after a while. I think Avid has run better on PC for a while now. Mac is easier for a non-tech-head like me, but there are things I like better in both worlds, though Mac wins almost everywhere but on Avid.

Steve

On Jun 16, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Mark Myers <MarkM@SR-Pro.com> wrote:

> I'd have to second this. I'm running 5.5 on an Imac with a Thunderbolt
> drive array. Love it, but it has it's quirks. My laptop is a Windows 8
> machine, with Avid on it. My duplicator is Windows XP. My major gig is
> a freelance job using Windows 7 with a Premiere/Avid combo, so I'm
> switching between 3-4 different platforms and versions every day. I see
> little difference in setup or reliability anymore. Both have some
> advantages, both have some quirks, but as Terry says, they're getting
> more and more alike - interface differences aside.
>
> Mark
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> On 6/16/2013 9:55 AM, Terence Curren wrote:
> >
> > My first computer was a Mac Plus. At that point the choice was between
> > the drag and drop interface of Mac and memorizing commands in DOS. It
> > was a no brainer for me.
> >
> > I was forced into the Windows world when Symphony came out on PC only.
> > (lack of enough PCI slots, a Steve Jobs victory). I've been through
> > all the iterations of Windows since then, and the Mac iterations from
> > before permissions being an issue to now. And if you don't se how the
> > two systems have come towards each other, you aren't paying attention.
> >
> > I now manage a lot of systems that are split between Windows and OSX.
> > And I can't agree with your assessment that Mac is so much better. It
> > takes me a few minutes to make the system adjustments on a PC after a
> > fresh install that optimize it for Avid work. But there tweaks on the
> > Mac side also.
> >
> > But the real difference comes in running MC/Symphony on the two
> > platforms. I for one don't prefer the wonderful crashes on Mac, where
> > you are suddenly looking at the desktop and have lost all of your
> > work, vs. the less common crashes in Windows which throw up an
> > assertion error allowing you to save your work before elegantly
> > restarting the app.
> >
> > And that is the most important thing to me as an operator. A crash
> > that loses work done, is a time loser and therefore a money loser.
> > Combine that with the planned obsolescence that we have to put up with
> > on the Apple side, and the "We are not an open platform" surtax, and
> > as an equipment purchaser I have to lean PC.
> >
> > All that said, I am all Mac at home where Apple has the more elegant
> > solution.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > Mark Spano <cutandcover@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Windows and Mac OS becoming more alike? I want what you're smoking!
> > > Managing a PC and getting one optimized to do anything productive is
> > a lot
> > > more work and a ton more trouble than it is worth. Mac OS and Mac OS
> > Server
> > > are so much more elegant and less kludgey than anything Windows has ever
> > > made. If forced to leave Mac OS, I'd go to Linux before Windows.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Terence Curren <tcurren@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > **
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "jonathansabrams" <jonathansabrams@>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > << I use Windows by force, not by choice. While I am disappointed
> > that the
> > > > new Mac Pro does not have PCIe slots, I will choose to use an
> > expansion
> > > > chassis before I choose to use Windows.>>
> > > >
> > > > I use both, and with each passing year they become more alike.
> > Right down
> > > > to the attempt to catch up to Windows 8 with iOS7.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
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