Haha. Are you joking? A Mac. Dude, buy a PC and join the world of the efficient.

 

Well, I work in IT, and I spend a large percentage of my time managing Windows (W2K, XP SP2) security patches for approx 5,000 desktops and notebooks. Oh, and 200+ servers (Advanced Server 2003).

While overwhelmingly popular, the MS O/S's are by no means 'efficient'. In fact, the opposite is true - the underlying architecture is simply crude - DLL's are still a nightmare, etc...

I'm not a bigot either way - and actually prefer Linux, but Apple has some stellar products, and their latest Operating Systems provide support for some of the best multimedia authoring tools out there, and are very slick in terms of user interface, in general.

So, IMHO, your comment was off-base.

For wheelerfreak: No. I gave SCT a call just now (Phone: 407.774.2447), and Mike, one of the SCT tech guys, indicated Windows only, with no plans to support MAC that he's aware of.

Hope this helps!

Cheers
Grog use phone!

 

Pretty impressive for a neanderthal.

I prefer Linux as well.

Joey

 

Well boys, I don't know about you, but one of my personal PC's runs Linux. And yes, PC's are more efficient, if not for any other reason than the fact that 99% of applications out there are designed to run on Windows and not on Mac. That gentlemen is what I call efficiency.
MGDfan, while you might work for IT and install lots of patches and such, I work at a large oil production facility in Alaska that makes 100,000 barrels of oil per day. The automation engineers I work with say the only system robust and reliable enough to run our automation and advanced instrumentation is Windows (2000 pro right now, upgrading to XP in 2-3 years). Does Windows have problems, sure, but when it is being used in 90% of the computers worldwide, problems are bound to occur. To Mac users, do yourself a favor and order a $400 Dell and rejoice in your existence.

 

Hi. Well, we only make 4-5 million tons of steel per year, so we're small potatoes.

While we too use Windows on the desktop and servers for Office Automation purposes, our true line-of-business apps - the ones we need to run non-stop 24/7/365 with full High Availability, run on HP Unix servers. These are actually robust and reliable . No one has ever successfully demonstrated a Windows environment that can do that, year after year, with ZERO downtime. We've tried, our competitors and partners have tried - not there yet.

We keep our Windows boxes as reliable and available as possible , but not without a LOT of work to keep them so.

There's a standing joke in the industry - a Windows pc will run forever without crashing, if you can just keep any applications from being installed on them

Hoo-boy did this thread ever run into the bushes ...

All this is moot - the answer is still 'NO'.

Cheers!
Grog

 

MGD, thanks for the info. At work I can't phone tech support so I have to post questions here. Thanks again. Let's not turn this into a Mac Vs. PC pissing match. There are the enlightened that run Macs, and then all the rest

 

Hi WHeelerfreak,

By now you already know, but just to confirm - to use the LiveLink datalogging software, that must be run on a PC using some version of Windoze XP.

Thank God for the MAC, by the way - though I don't use a MAC & never will most likely unless it gets the kind of software applications support that we need (and I'm no fan of Windoze!!) - if it didn't exist, where else would Bill Gates have "stolen" the mouse idea from to give us PC guys a mouse-driven GUI!!