View Poll Results: Operating system of choice for your projects
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Mac OSX
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5 |
9.26% |
Windows XP
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18 |
33.33% |
Windows 7 Home
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10 |
18.52% |
Windows 7 Professional
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9 |
16.67% |
Windows 7 Ultimate
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9 |
16.67% |
Windows Vista
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3 |
5.56% |
08-10-2011, 06:01 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Aug 2011
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Operating system of choice
Operating system of choice for your projects? Thank you for participating
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08-10-2011, 09:32 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 6,919
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No options for 32/64 bit??
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08-10-2011, 09:36 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: San Rafael
Posts: 11,594
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old windows
XP, grudgingly. Wish I had a Mac.
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08-10-2011, 09:49 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bluzkat
No options for 32/64 bit??
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Good point. Missed that one.
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08-10-2011, 09:51 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by msore
XP, grudgingly. Wish I had a Mac.
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A very expensive niche market in these hard economic times
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08-10-2011, 09:53 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by msore
XP, grudgingly. Wish I had a Mac.
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http://macromeme.com/dog/why-not-to-buy-mac.html
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08-10-2011, 10:13 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Oulu, Finland
Posts: 8,062
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Why no Linux option? Surely there's a ton of people using it for music work...
Also all the Windows 7 options don't really make any significant difference for audio work.
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08-10-2011, 10:20 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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XP Pro 32, at the moment. It was a choice over Vista. Didn't consider Linux, but that was my oversight.. not a conscious decision.
No reason to use Mac, IMHO.
I use them, work on them, and own a bunch of older ones (ranging from a Mac SE30 to a dual G5 tower) but can't see that spending the money on a new one would offer any advantage, for our purposes, over the XP I'm using.
I'd rather upgrade to/build a new windows/Linux machine for a fraction of what a new Mac would cost. And, perhaps, go 64 bit if I was sure things were stable, etc. (I can't make use of the added available memory on the laptop I'm using for the music at the moment.. it's maxed at 4GB)
Just my $.02
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08-10-2011, 10:35 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Saskatoon, Canada
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Agreed, the Windows 7 options could be condensed into Windows 7 32bit and 64 bit seeing as that makes a difference when installing software and drivers. Mac on the other hand has done a 360 on this. It used to be said in favor of simplicity that there was 1 OS for mac - OSX. Now I go to some download pages and I find a rather alarming array of download options with serious implications for getting it wrong.
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
ppc
x86
32bit
64bit
Mix and match.
Last edited by plush2; 08-10-2011 at 10:46 AM.
Reason: redundancy
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08-10-2011, 11:45 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Down Under
Posts: 396
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DOS 6.2 (Not 6.22) - Nothing more, nothing less.
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08-10-2011, 11:52 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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I'm a Mac man (10.6), but I would quite like a Win7 machine ... I don't know which version, not sure of the diffs, but I like it.
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08-10-2011, 12:04 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Exmouth, England
Posts: 2,687
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Vista 32 bit. Not exactly my operating system of choice for audio, it just happened to be on my PC.
Believe it or not, it runs without any problems
Pete
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08-10-2011, 01:05 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Aug 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stratman
Vista 32 bit. Not exactly my operating system of choice for audio, it just happened to be on my PC.
Believe it or not, it runs without any problems
Pete
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Much appreciated,
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08-10-2011, 01:36 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Xenakios
Also all the Windows 7 options don't really make any significant difference for audio work.
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Yep... my dinky little netbook has Win 7 Starter Edition. Freaking AWESOME little machine coupled with Reaper and a Tascam US-122L.
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08-11-2011, 07:53 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 77
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Diogenes
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Priceless
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08-11-2011, 08:39 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 4,713
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Imo and ime, I value the ability to get and keep a workhorse computer up and running with a minimum of research and f***ing around quite highly. Let's not continue this age-old boring argument about the validity of subjective choices
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08-11-2011, 09:41 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: dusty hot place
Posts: 1,492
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Quote:
Originally Posted by timlloyd
. Let's not continue this age-old boring argument about the validity of subjective choices
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Right, but ...
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Imo and ime, I value the ability to get and keep a workhorse computer up and running with a minimum of research and f***ing around quite highly
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dates from a different time and it's not reflecting the situation between OS's that are on the martket now.
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