And for the privilege of taking all the BS from Apple, you get to pay twice as much for everything. Within a few months of its release, every cell phone company under the sun had a model that does the exact same things, for a much lower price. mp3's of all their music, it's only a matter of time. It will eventually be wiped out for that reason. iTunes is a perfect example - songs you buy from iTunes will only play on iPods. Although they've started to loosen up slightly, they are still proprietary up the wazoo. For a long time, they deliberately made their products incompatible with other platforms. If you buy one thing from Apple, you have to buy everything from Apple, or it won't work. Then there are the Apple cultists, who will never forgive their arch enemy Bill Gates for destroying their high prophet Steve Jobs in the marketplace, over and over and over again, by doing the same thing, but doing it with a better business model.Īpple has no one to blame but itself for its business practices.
These are the same people who come in here pimping Reaper, and have computers full of cracked software. There are open source/Linux people, who think everything should be free. There are a variety of people who have an axe to grind with Microsoft. I know there are some things that irritate us about Microsoft, but remember, they brought us Windows,
It is Microsoft that brought us Windows, so I have high esteem for them! It astounds me how some people put down Microsoft. But with Windows 7, on all those same machines, it's been great so far.I could never go back to XP (well, that's a lie, at work I have to develop on XP, but I really miss Win7 when I do). I had a mixed set of experiences with Vista having installed it on several machines. I understand the general concern people have about these things, and much of it is very valid.
And indeed, I already prefer Windows 7 to Vista - by a long way. If you have a working system I can understand not messing with it, but many of us here actually prefer Vista to XP.
Yeah but they've also built plenty of machines for us at Cakewalk that use Vista and work great.
having said that, even today companies like PC AUDIO LAB who are one of the market leaders in configuring computers for Pro Audio recording and DAW still insist on using XP. I know there are people using VISTA without problems. The superfetch improvements (on my system) are no biggie but might be of interest to someone I read W7 also uses Superfetch with a smaller Ram Footprint as well, I guess some of those W7 changes made it into Vista SP2. Not anything to really aid or degrade ones usage of Sonar in any great way IMO but after a week of SP2 I think I will leave superfetch running. But whatever Microsoft did with SP2, Superfetch is much smarter with ram usage now AFAICT. I keep checking my Task Manager to see if there is something wrong. It appears to be much more efficient as of SP2.
All of it would be used up (no free ram left after about 10 mins post login), which is fine as nothing slowed down but I noticed after a week of using Vista SP2 that superfetch is now consistently using only 3GB on my system instead of the full 8GB of ram or so. SP2 seems snappier than SP1 here, while that is not a technical analysis I think this one might qualify.not a big deal but I used to do away with superfetch as it just seemed clumsy even with 8GB of ram.