AppleInsiders industry comments (Mac vs Windows) are usually good. This is is a good call on the current state of them-
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...windows_7.html
I miss the age of tech innocence where nothing got updated, in fact it never needed to be updated. It did what the manufacturer designed. OK, things weren't as complicated back in the day, I'm referring to 80s and 90s digital synths, samplers and midi sequencers. But we've lost a sense of permanence and I suspect there is some plain old lazy coding because it can all now be fixed in an update.
I'd exclude the TI though, because its an extremely ambitious target trying to work with constantly moving OS's and DAW software. The synth part of the TI has been very good for some time. OS's however are a treadmill of updates, compatiblity mismatches and bugs being deliberately unnoticed by the coders. We're all dragged into something we didn't sign up for when we bought a computer.
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