James, besides telling me your personal bad experience with PC's to make your point, you keep telling me that I project my bad experience on others.
It's not only me. Maybe we can make 33 pages here, lets see how creative we are.
ProToolsTDM/HD('pro'protools) uses the mac as a sort of server, dspcards do the real crunching. It's expensive so you get great service. It's a good system, it does what it does without letting you be aware all the time you're sitting behind a (home)computer.
ProTools is very good, but not very very very good. Digi just came with an update that corrected the plugindelay. It can mess up your stereo'image severly, that's why other people (classical engineers) use software like
Pyramix. It does multitrack DSD, the scary realistic "analog digital" format. The
Vienna Samples were recorded and edited (over a million) in Sequoia, great SonicSolutionslike DAW.
All on PC, no trouble. Well-chosen by boring professionals who deliver daily-based top quality.
Videoguys I work for, all PC (Avid). It can be done, and a site like musicxp.net lets you configure your pc in minutes, just do as they show you. It worked out for me and a lot of other people.
And four crashes a day? Yes. Apple's Logic Audio 6.something had a nasty stabillityissue under OSX2.something. Going back to Emagic Logic 5.5.1 on a PC was a big relief for me and others. OSX2 had designflaws that were too serious for some people, including me (needed fast HD -like my current Raptors- for freezetracks). The G5 had issues with quite some soundcards, there came pricy upgrades (MOTU). Your Digi 001 is obsolete. Try running a Powercore in Logic with low latency. Issues like there are with PC's.
When I needed working updates Apple build the "iLife"line, neat software that turns your computer into a hip remote for the mental challenged who seem to outnumber musicians on earth.
They will spend money on nice looking computers if they do 'mail', 'picture' and 'sleeze' with just a few soft-blue mouseactions.
Apple had qualitycontrol over my main softwarepackage and didn't handle it very well. Maybe they do now, I do hear good stories about Logic Pro under 10.3. But I got a Win98like expierence in all its gore, stuck with a developer focused on lifestylestuff.
Swithing to WinXP was a relief, try image that. a Very mac-like 'switch' experience, a friend showed me that it could be done perfectly and I was amazed by the speed, the ease and -damn- the price. Great software, good hardware. Put it in a 19" rack and work. Funny overclocktricks that work out safe & fine. Exiting
audiovaporware waiting to materialize giving me a great excuse to buy an 6800GT 'FX processor' ("This way, Gordon"). Tweakerforums give great advice, XP is very, very solid. I've done a _lot_ of work on this machine.
I even start liking CubaseSX.
I miss the Line6 Ampfarm (can it do PodXT?) and the Sonyplugs, maybe I'll get an older OS9Mac to run those.
