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I'm actually a long time Unix guy, started using it in 1977. Linux isn't bad since it's pretty much Unix, but not near as stable, probably due to the PC platform it's running on.

Got forced to use PC's due to work, there we use PC's for documentation, mail, etc. We use Linux for chip simulations.

My wife does website design and uses a Mac Pro for that, mostly, but still has to use a PC just to make sure everything still works there.

3 Ricks & 1 MacBook. Also have a couple of PC's....to be honest I hate 'em.

jps wrote:

cassius987 wrote:If someone is a PC person that's totally cool, but I was raised on them, and converted to Mac as soon as I moved out.

You mean your parents abused you while you were under their wing? Someone tell the authorities, quick!!!

It's worse than you think.

"JOSH! I NEED HELP MAKING SOME RANDOM POWERPOINT PRESENTATION AND/OR TURNING ON THE COMPUTER AND I THINK I BLEW UP THE MODEM WHEN I PRINTED THE LAST DOCUMENT!!"

"Coming Dad..."

This pattern continued over the course of 4 PCs. Between Dad's ineptitude and the PCs' total suckage in terms of behaving in any predictable fashion it was a total nightmare.

Sad!

cassius987 wrote:Powerbook G4 (OS X Tiger); Ric 4003FL & 4003

If someone is a PC person that's totally cool, but I was raised on them, and converted to Mac as soon as I moved out.

So you finally grew up, then, Joshua?

I like to think that part of being a musician means never growing up.

It would seem that I'm regressing.

Sigh.

I have a PC tech in my department at the U, who has an office on the floor directly below mine, and is "on call" for any hardware/software issues. He knows nothing (I mean, nothing) about Macs, and does not want to learn. But he's a whiz on PCs, and my department has four PC Lab rooms with a total of about 200, all up and running at the same time, and many being seriously abused by students who know either too much or too little.

It took him several years to get all of his certs, and he can generally fix anything software-related in a few minutes. My brand-new Sony picked up a virus when my daughter was chatting online to Brasil with her cousins, which ate the hard drive data (you could watch the lights wink out slowly...). The reinstall discs were nowhere to be found. I struggled with this ba****d for about ten hours, total, at home, and succeeded in wiping the HD and installing most of XP again (multiple indecipherable error messages), but the screen resolution was wrong, and the Sony drivers I downloaded did not work as they were supposed to, probably because of the incomplete install.

Geno (our tech) agreed to fix it for a bottle of wine. Not Ripple. Took him an hour and a half, I purchased new virus protection, and it's up and running again. But it stays mine, packed in its case at the office and never taken home.

My two identical G5 iMac 20s (one at home, one at the office) just crank along, though they are both nearing 18 months old, with no problems. Geno hates 'em.

Because we're a design school, we run a lot of Apples, though I have the only one in my department, which uses PCs because they are Alias and Maya native platforms. Of course, I prefer working on Apples, so for three years I was supplied two computers (PC and Apple) by the U, both of which had huge CRT monitors and took up 75% of my desk space. The PC was a new budget-line Dell desktop, and was troublesome from the get-go, with tons of hardware-related problems. It finally settled in and was the slowest computer I'd ever worked on. The Mac was a Bondi Blue G3 desktop that had seen years of yeoman service in the animation department (filled with hackers).

Short version: I went through two Dells and five obsolete Mac G3s and platinum G4s, before I finally got sick of the craziness and put in for a new G5 iMac. Not on the budget, refused. So I found a new one on Ebay with warranty for under a grand, and bought it myself.

The sun shone in my office the day I received it, unpacked it, and set it up. I now have desk space, a fast-running machine with up-to-date software, and it's invisible, because it isn't on my mind constantly as an irritant, as the old ones were.

But I have to be my own tech. Fortunately, nothing has broken yet.

sharkboy wrote:I like to think that part of being a musician means never growing up.

I'm "only" 22 and I feel this way as well. I'm only going to get more and more eccentric with time.

cassius987 wrote:

sharkboy wrote:I like to think that part of being a musician means never growing up.

I'm "only" 22 and I feel this way as well. I'm only going to get more and more eccentric with time.

I think never growing up is pretty much essential to a happy life, musician or not, hence my signature...

When people ask me where I grew up I like to say:

"Didn't. I'm a musician."

The Macs are always a conversation starter when folks visit me in my office...

^ for a second there, I thought it was John Hall's office.
Great collection, John!

jwilli wrote:^ for a second there, I thought it was John Hall's office.
Great collection, John!

+1 - First glimpse for me! Very nice - thanks for sharing!

I have 3 Rics and 2 Macs...love them all

jsm610 wrote:The Macs are always a conversation starter when folks visit me in my office...

How the hell do you get any work done in there?

2 Rics and 2 Macs (iMac & Macbook)