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Dennis Gunn wrote:

>Basically from what I have seen you are not intentionally lying but 
>not really telling the whole truth in that like I said there is a 
>whole raft of shit you as a PC user do so automatically that you just 
>are not aware of it any more.

>I am not a fan of Windows systems but I came by my dislike of PCs 
>honestly and at personal expense.  I had no opinion about them at all 
>and I could never see why people argued about it. I listened to my 
>Mac bashing friends and kept an open mind about the issue and in the 
>end thought "OK this thing is faster and cheaper and will do what I 
>need I'll buy one".  I bought it and found that all this "simple, 
>more stable, more wonderful" talk was just a crock of shit.  At that 
>time PCs were faster, and yes there is more software available, as 
>for the rest of the argument, forget it, Macs are easy to use and 
>require comparatively little tweaking, the new ones are quite 
>powerful and the latest OS adds pretty much everything meaningful 
>that was missing from "classic" (OS7~9.xx) systems and also 
>incorporates most of the good aspects of the Windows system as well.
>
>I do find the denial by some PC users that they have any problems a 
>little annoying, since buying that line at face ended up having me 
>end up spending about $2500 buck and wasting a couple months of my 
>time.   Now I pay more attention when I see the very same guys 
>screaming that they have no problems shouting about a litany of 
>problems the next day when the topic of conversation has moved away 
>from a Mac PC platform war.
>
>If you are happy with your Windows system that's great, if you can 
>keep it running and productive, wonderful.
>
>If the next Windows box that comes out runs a 6ghz costs 50$ and 
>blows the doors off any Mac one earth fantastic.
>
>If your are going to tell me that staying productive on a Windows 
>machine is easier than or even as easy as it is on a Mac, forget it.
>
>>You may have had a bad experience once but its safe to come out now mate.
>
>I started up my PC lots of times and pretty much every one of them 
>was a bad experience.  I will not buy one of those things again it 
>sucked up too much of my time.  The next time I start up my PC, which 
>is currently sitting in a closet, it will be to wipe the discs and 
>sell it.

Hi Dennis,

You have good hardware as far as Audio interfaces (RME-  I use the same) -
the UAD 1 complicates things a little but apparently people are happy with
them. 

In all of the above -- and your previous messages -- at no stage do you
mention specific problems or the specs of your machine (Mobo/what brand of
memory etc). Just this mysterious plague of problems which darenot speak
their name. If tweaks were applied maybe they screwed with the reliability
of the machine -- I really don't know. 

On forums frequented by PC people you get people saying "I use this board
and everything is great" OR "I had this problem when I used the following
combination". All PCs are not created equal and I would tend to suspect the
combination of hardware you used. If your hardware was kosher I would
wonder about the advice of your expert friends.

If your Mac is working well and you are comfortable with it then I guess
the story ends happily.

Regards,
Murray