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Originally Posted by Cucking Funt I find that amazing to believe. I've been running my dual G4 840 for over two years using Logic, Reason and Recycle and have not had a single crash. And many other mac musicians I know have had minor or nil problems with thier audio set-up. It's all down to house-keeping and knowing the OS. It's funny. I've had more problems with my XP box than any of the mac's I use on my network. It got so bad that I don't even use the friggin' thing anymore. It's props my bathroom door open when I'm showering.
With mac's, the ram and hard-disk arrays are easy to upgrade. Almost most ATA or IDE drives will drop into a mac for formatting and use. Mac's hardly ever breakdown as the build quality is second to none, and in all the years I've owned various mac's I've only had one power supply blow on me.
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It could be the fact that I am used to using Cubase, where you can set an external wave editor like Wavelab, or in my case Cool Edit Pro, to interface more or less as a shell extension of the Cubase Sequencer... I find this a very powerful set up, and yet it loads your settings and mix in around a second with a giga hertz of processing speed...
On the other hand, I actually served the last year of my time in a Pro Tools Studio, and I found Pro Tools to be extremely un-weildy and far less stable, which could be why I took a disliking to the mac... I don't like pro tools at all as a program, I think it is thristy for computer resources, less than stellar for stability and as user friendly as a cornered rattlesnake...
I don't really like mac's as much as PC's philosophically because I approve of the open hardware configuration of PC's, I build all my computer systems myself from components down to tightening the last screw, and I guess I'm just used to the pecadillos of the PC...
Also, the studio I served my time in was runing from a Yamaha 02R96 and this and Pro Tools plugins were being used for compression and EQ instead of outboard units, and I'm one of these nuts who prefers the old snakes wedding of cables, outboards and an analogue desk approach to mixing... I really love Spirit analogue desks, I think the pre-amps are fantastic in them, even the little cheap portable ones that I use for location recordings...
This is a photo of the O2R / Pro Tools setup... Not an outboard in sight... I'm the one with the bass guitar...