This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: New Mac Pro

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: New Mac Pro

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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