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>> Thrice.
>
> Oh, my. ;)
Yeah, I know.
I started off with a GeForce 6600. Playing CSS with HDRL made it weep in
agony. So I replaced it with something a bit more... meaty. [Back when I
built the PC, I didn't ever play games. I only got a 3D card at all to
see what HalfLife would look like with filtered texturing...]
I also started off with a single-core CPU. A later replaced this with a
dual-core one. (Irritatingly, this required a BIOS update!)
> The PowerMac line has always been quite configurable and extendable.
> Heck, it's even 10 times easier to open than a PC. With the typical PC
> you need a screwdriver, and accessing the things inside is not the easiest
> possible task. With a typical PowerMac you press a button, open the
> computer and everything is nicely laid out there. (Well, at least this
> was so in the past.)
Mmm. Computers certainly very on how easy it is to access internal
components. My mum's first PC? When I opened the case, I couldn't even
*see* the motherboard! There was the PSU, the HD, the CD-ROM, and the
cables for those. After that, there was barely space to fit a hand in!
>>>> 2. I would have to throw away all my existing software.
>>> That doesn't make even the least bit of sense. Are you saying that if
>>> you buy a second computer, you have to throw away the first one? Why?
>>> How does that make any sense?
>
>> My bedroom has finite volume? (Not to mention power supplies. And space
>> for a keyboard, mouse and monitor...)
>
> Switches exist. They aren't even expensive.
Still doesn't solve the volume problem.
>>>> If I was going to go down this road, I'd need to know for sure that I'd
>>>> actually be able to do something *useful* with a Mac.
>>> Like what?
>
>> I'm just saying, the quantity of software I can find for a Mac has to be
>> large enough that it's worth turning the thing on at least occasionally.
>
> What kind of software? I bet you don't spend thousands of pounds in
> software, so that must be free software? What kind of free software?
> What is it that you do that requires Windows-only software?
Instruments stuff, various bits of expensive hardware that may or may
not work without Windoze.
>> I guess I could just use the Mac as a rendering machine - but then, if
>> you want a Mac with serious CPU power, it gets *frighteningly*
>> expensive. So that's not really gonna work.
>
> There we go again.
OK, so I go to the Apple website, click on the Mac Pro, and it
The machine I'm using right now, the one that was built using the best
a bloody big difference! ;-)
>> think that has Mac drivers.
>
> Probably not, because MacOS X probably supports it out of the box.
Maybe. If I'm not using the Mac for serious sound work anyway, I guess
it doesn't matter either way.
>>>> Eventually I got tired of Linux being catestrophically
>>>> broken every time any item of hardware changed, so I just removed it
>>>> completely.
>>> Right, no other linux user ever changes their hardware and thus
>>> avoids all problems, which is why linux is never fixed. You are the
>>> only person in the world to do that.
>
>> Linux is an OS "designed by experts, for experts". I am not an expert.
>
> How does that counter my sarcasm? I think it's still valid.
My *point* is that "other Linux users" are Linux experts. I'm not.
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