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dc[3]
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One real advantage the PC Paris guys have is the plugs
that keep coming out. Dang!
Also, Paris works better when boosting levels inside the
EQ on PC than it does on Macs for some reason.
Almost makes me miss Windows 95...
DC
Kerry Galloway <kg@kerrygalloway.com> wrote:
>One of the biggest PC DAW advocates in town just bought a Macbook and an
>iPhone; he was on the phone to me completely stoked this morning, he was
so
>excited about the new adventure. On the flip side, me - a Mac guy since
'91
>- I'll be leaning on him (and the community here) heavily when I set up
my
>first XP-based PARIS rig. It's all over, we can all have the tools we need
>now, it's just a matter of choices - and all the choices are good ones.
>
>The only part that really disturbs me is we don't have any good excuses
left
>if we can't make music with these tools... :D
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>- Kerry
>
>On 7/28/08 2:55 PM, in article 488e4060$1@linux, "DC"
><dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:
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>>
>> Yeah, I know I am an optimist...
>>
>> Still, there is little reason for them any more.
>>
>> DC
>>
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>> Kerry Galloway <kg@kerrygalloway.com> wrote:
>>> The platform wars are over? Thank God, finally! I'm sure that's certainly
>> an
>>> enormous relief for all of us.
>>>
>>> - Kerry
>>>
>>> On 7/27/08 11:18 PM, in article 488d64cd$1@linux, "DC"
>>> <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> In the early 1990's at the univ. I worked at, the IT guys tried to
>>>> ban macs. If they found one in your dept. they would ridicule you
>>>> and tried to enforce a "no mac" campus standard. They would talk about
>>>> market share and comparisons to VHS vs. Betamax were tossed about
>>>> freely.
>>>>
>>>> In the mid 1990's, my wife's dept head actually banned macs from the
dept.
>>>>
>>>> Both the IT director and my wife's dept. head got canned, thankfully,
>>>> but more importantly, let me be the first to declare the platform wars
>>>> over.
>>>>
>>>> Apple is now #3
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Claws+Its+Way+Closer+to+the+T op+in+Retail+PC+
>>>> Sa
>>>> les/article12409.htm
>>>>
>>>> Who'da thunk?
>>>>
>>>> So, let me say to all the geek doomsayers and PC nazis
>>>>
>>>> Bite Me. You were wrong all along. Get a life.
>>>>
>>>> Apple has developed into the BMW of comp. companies. My new
>>>> 8-core could not be more elegantly designed and built. Putting in
>>>> more RAM was like working on a beautiful sports car and Leopard makes
>>>> both Vista and XP look like bathroom grafitti in comparison.
>>>>
>>>> Cheap? No, but worth it, and there really is no competition if you
care
>>>> about the things it offers.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, and a guy from Apple spent hours with me sorting out my ethernet
>>>> troubles.
>>>>
>>>> Nothing against PC's, but the platform wars are over. You pays yer
>>>> nickel and takes yer choice.
>>>>
>>>> DC
>>>>
>>>> oh and with VM Fusion, I can put XP over here and Leopard over there
>>>> on the same machine and the same monitor. Or on mon. 2 of an extended
>>>> desktop.
>>>
>>
>
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OT The platform wars are over...
By: dc[3] on Sun, 27 July 2008 23:18
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
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