Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

--- GAmoore@... wrote:

> 
> I think OS X is not as final and stable as they let
> on and I bet if you tell 
> Steve Jobs that, you're immediately fired from
> Apple. Just tonight, Logic 
> crashed as I imported screensets from another file -
> both small. I then created a 
> new user logon to try out the new preferences idea,
> and went all the way 
> through the setup wizard, then it crashed too. I
> have never felt less confident 
> about Macs - at least with Logic. (Photoshop and
> Excel rarely seem to crash). 
> 
> 

You are apparently just about the only person on the
planet with that experience. No desktop OS is utterly
crash proof, but it is easy enough to run for weeks or
months at a time on OS X.  My powerbook hasn't been
rebooted in weeks, and I've started and shutdown logic
with two different audio adaptors every day since
Xmas, and opened and closed the lid 5-10 times every
day, with various software packages running each time.
 I know for a fact that a windows pc won't put up with
that kind of abuse, because my windows laptop
inevitably fails to come back from being put to sleep
at least once per week.  Running linux on either my
powerbook or pc laptop results in an improvement over
windows, but nothing like what I get in OS X.  It
supports every piece of hardware I've thrown at it,
and only rarely do I have to install drivers for new
hardware, no matter how complex the hardware, because
there are standards for device types that are actually
adhered to.  My USB midi controller, bluetooth mouse,
USB hard drives all functioned with no software
installation.  On my windows box, a simple simple USB
hub required that I track down drivers online before
it would actually function in XP.  I jacked it into my
mac just to make sure it worked and it functioned
perfectly, instantly.  Windows required new drivers
and a reboot for the same hardware.  But then, if you
sneeze at windows, it asks you to reboot, so that's no
surprise.

OS X might not be perfectly stable, but I sure can't
imagine a more stable desktop OS. OK, I can imagine
one, but I've certainly never seen one.  

Software crashes (photoshop, excel, logic) almost
always have nothing to do with the operating system
and everything to do with the complexity of the
software running on top of it.

--sam




		
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