> >>It's been my experience that on the PC it's more of a hardware than
> software problem....But if you use a mackie 24 you notice it's rather stable.
> Why? Because the designers where faced with a much smaller problem space. This
> effect is most noticeable on console games. How often do you crash a video game?
> <<
> And you've made a good case for the Mac right there. The Mac is hardware and
> operating system from a single company. It's kind of like a console game
> machine in that aspect.
It's easy to misinterpret the symptoms of a platform with significantly
less marketshare as being "less buggy" as another. I run both a PC and a
Mac - get over it - they're both buggy. Even OSX 10.2.6 and XP. Though I
have yet to have either cash on me (I'm talking the OS, NOT applications).
I have had apps hang and take dumps on both machines, though. As someone
stated before on this list, there are too many lousy software authors.
That isn't a case for the "Mac", it's a case for an embedded, specialized
system for a specific task. If the Mac supported anywhere near the number
of devices that the PC does, then we'd all be bitching about the Mac.
Whomever has the widest hardware support is bound to have the most
problems.
Besides, 99.999999% of people out there that think that buggy applications
and poorly written drivers are Windows problems, when in fact they are
app/driver problems. One can write horrid drivers for any platform. ;-(
That's what you get for non-WHQL certified drivers written by a first year
student in China for the Xang-tan sound card. ;-|
It's amazing though, people scream "choice" yet at the same time want the
benefits of a single hardware/software source, aka MONOPOLY.
-->Neil
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