Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

On Jan 13, 2005, at 6:56 AM, Kamm Schreiner wrote:

> On my Mac, I have to manually unlock my network settings and click on 
> Renew
> DHCP in order to get Internet access every time I reboot the computer.
> That's plug and play?

Actually thats wierd.. My network settings arent locked. Just opened 
them up on my tower and everythings available, I just hit renew DHCP 
lease and pulled my address back from my router again..
Odd though, my Powerbook, some of the control panels are locked like 
that but arent on my tower.. Ive never seen the network settings locked 
like that though.

These arguments are all really lame. I can keep an XP machine just as 
stable as my OS X machine. I can crash both just the same. Personally I 
prefer the Mac because I like its workflow and its more fun for me to 
use. Dont mind using XP either in fact Im trying to push my boss at 
work to let me upgrade our workstations from 2000 finally. What Ive 
found alot of it boils down to is the User himself.  Ive been doing 
user end tech support for almost 10 years now, and this is proving to 
hold very true. PC's being cheaper though? Sure you can go buy a nice 
$500 emachine (do they still make those even) or build yourself a 
pretty decent $1000 machine. But when you get into the higher end Dell 
workstations, which our University buys quite a bit of for our 
arcitects and designers that I have to support, you can easily pay just 
as much as a G5.

One thing I will say about plug and play.. I dont have to 'stop and 
eject' a simple USB compact flash drive, or my firewire Lacie DVD-R to 
disconnect it from my Mac, I literally can just plug and play with it.. 
:)

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Chris Coccia
http://www.descentrecords.com