![]() I hate pre-built computers! I would rather buyt all of the parts seperately and get someone like I did to put it together.have had it for years and no complaints. I simply reformat mine when I need to and put eveything back on (all the drivers and programs I have on CD's).it only takes me a couple of hours to do it and is far better than having to trace down every problem that comes up in my registry!īut if you have a dell or some pre built computer.no telling WHAT kind of stuff it has in it.probably the cheapest they could get their hands on. Win OS are known to get what is commonly reffered to as "windows rot" after a while. I don't see how people buy computers and then rely on the win OS that came with it. I can reformat my computer anytime I want.and do so when it needs it. The BEST way is to GET YOUR OWN OS and make sure you have drivers to all your cards! Sales guys don't care about you, they just want your money. I usually suggest that some research is prudent in purchasing a multi-hundred or multi-thousand dollar product. The best consumer is an informed consumer. But I'd not buy any OS for the PC other than XP or Win2k on which to run these softwares. On the PC platfrom, Sequoia/Samplitude, SAWStudio, and a few other apps are better better performers. ![]() If I was interested in Pro Tools, I'd be buying a Mac that I knew would work with it. If you need a solution today, buy a product that works today. find the software that you like, and buy the computer to support it. Sometimes you have to look at the options pages of the seller.Īs to buying a computer with Vista and expecting it to work with audio, I recommend over and over. This has been said over and over, and each time it is said, several people jump in with links to new computers beng sold with XP, including Dell and other major brands. ![]() There are no PCs for sale right now with anything other than Vista. While I would applaud free driver upgrades (and believe it's good customer service to provide them), it's neither the software manufacturer's decision to upgrade the OS nor their responsibility for us deciding to make that upgrade to our own computers. I agree with you, however, regarding the upgrade. Backwards compatibility would appear to be way down on MS' list of priorities in the rollout of a new OS. I know that's extreme (as removing the DOS access in ME or whatever they had upgraded to was) but this seems typical of backwards compatibility of MS OS's and OS's in general. It was a huge PITA to gain access to that data. In fact, when I was a Gibson employee in 2001 they couldn't get a dos screen out of the current MS OS, which left us locked out of the old servers (which were still used for massive data storage). I couldn't even get a calendar program from one platform to work with the next platform and you think most DAW software will even run on the new platform without entirely new drivers? You've got to show me this bizarro world you live in where computer OS' are backward compatible. Glad your 486 - Cakewalk works on your XP computer, but you're kidding, right Vince? I've still got an ancient copy of cakewalk that I bought for a 486 I had (Win 3.11), and it still works on Windows XP. doesn't ProTools work on Vista? These things are usually downward compatible, so that a new version of an OS will continue to support older versions of various software packages.
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