Avid Base Analyzer will take care most of it automatically. What ever is
left should be in the Avid README or installation guide (drivers,
firmware, OS settings).
On 6/16/2013 7:13 PM, Michael Brockington wrote:
> As someone who hasn't worked on Windows in quite awhile, I'm curious
> what these optimizations are exactly. Are they standard procedure, or
> more of a personal voodoo?
>
> Cheers,
> --Michael
>
> On 13-06-16 10:09 AM, blafarm wrote:
>> Agreed.
>>
>> It takes me a total of 20 minutes to optimize a Windows machine (BIOS,
>> Power, Graphics). Of course, performance and stability are helped by
>> using a qualified hardware platform.
>>
>> Also worthy of note, on very complex multi-layered jobs, I see
>> performance differences which clearly tilt the scales to the Windows side.
>>
>> And, then there's graceful crashes, which seem to happen infrequently,
>> but which are priceless when they do happen. I'm not a fan of doing
>> work twice.
>>
>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
>> "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> 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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