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I would like to say that XP has been a nice experience for me so far, I
haven't done any heavy work yet, but I have 2 PC's 1 intel, 1 AMD, both
running 98 and XP dualboots, so we'll see how they both fare over the
next few months.

Sorry for starting the thread Jon :-)

BTW. He is also looking at a Sony VAIO as that got a good write up on
RME, and they come in a little bit cheaper than the Red submarine.  I
think that it is a really hard decision for anyone to make, Especially
as he is going to spend 2 or 3 times the amount of money for a similarly
spec'ed PC.


In article <9t18di+td9k@...>, Jon <jondl_2000@...> writes
>--- In AN1x-list@y..., "Peter Korsten" <peterk@i...> wrote:
>> From: "Gary Gregson" <gary@y...>
>> 
>> > For low latency audio Win2K and XP perform really well.
>> 
>
>I'd visited a local music store this past Monday and the salesperson 
>took it upon himself to inform me how poorly XP performs with MIDI and 
>Audio apps?!? Since I've no first hand experience in this area I'm 
>inclined to take Gary's experiences more seriously and this should go 
>to show how *silly* this topic can become :-P
>
>I don't doubt that we're all capable of respecting each others 
>intelligence to determine the platform which suits our individual 
>requirements (and budget!)
>
>
>> Speaking of which, Mac OS X has the lowest audio latency of them all. Linux
>> with some fancy (and experimental) software does a little better with no
>> system load, but Mac OS X keeps the same latency under high load, whereas
>> the others all get higher latencies.
>
>I'm VERY excited about MIDI and Audio under Mac OS X. So much so that 
>I've started scheming, uh, I meant 'budgeting', yeah that's it -  
>'budgeting' ;-) for a new G4 to replace my G3 with its sloooow 66 Mhz 
>system bus. Damn, even a 400 Mhz iMac has 100 Mhz system bus!!! :-#  
>
>> 
>> Software and drivers also seem to be coming to OS X, so this will be
>> interesting to look at in due time.
>
>TC Works http://www.tcworks.de/ has announced a freeware audio editor - 
>Spark ME - that was to be made available as of today. Very, very cool 
>IMO.
>
>> 
>> I have a PC at the moment, but the thing that attracts me about OS X is its
>> Unix based kernel.
>> 
>> - Peter
>
>regards,
>
>Jon
>
>p.s. - two demerits to Reggie for starting this thread ;-)
>p.p.s. - two more demerits for anybody who ignored his plea to respond 
>*offline* ;-)
>p.p.s.s. - let's move on to another subject now...
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See ya,

Reggie