The Logic Off Topic list

Smeet wrote:
>> Nice idea but somehow I think this is an illusion you are chasing. Nothing
>> stands still  -- OS patches, hardware drivers, Logic updates, new system
>> problems crop up.
>
>As I said, I would learn that eventually.  I just don't want lots of downtime
>initially.

LOL -- very understandable :-)

>> Building it yourself in the first place means you know what
>> is in there and everything that was done to it from scratch.
>
>Yes, I think you are right.

This is just where my own unpleasant experience of depending 
on others to fix my computer led me. I learnt the hard way.

>> reinstall anything there will be no mystery -- you've already done it.  All
>> that knowledge is power -- without it you are impotent in the face of
>> gremlins that bedevil every computer system from time to time.  If you
>> don't want to face this reality using a computer as a DAW is a bad idea.
>
>That sounds a teensy bit condescending, but point taken.

Hey -- if you work for a living with all the platforms you listed in your
post nobody is condescending to you about computers -- least of all me.
Perhaps that would have sounded better if I had written -- "If one does not
..."  --   but it sounds a bit too much like something Hugh Grant would say
to Kate Winslet in some 19th Century bodice ripper. 

>> If you don't want to get your hands under the hood, any clone
>> dealer can put a box together in an afternoon -- just pick a configuration
>> that others are reporting success with on the LUG and replicate it.
>
>Another good point...  The general consensus seems to be to put it
>together myself.  I guess it's time to start checking out prices...

The USA market for hardware looks like heaven from an Australian vantage
point -- very cheap and anything you conceivably want delivered to your
door overnight. Good luck with your new machine -- I will need to do
likewise soon enough.

Regards,
Murray