Fed up

[dysamoria]

Originally Posted by DIGITAL SCREAMS

Some people will always experience performance/integration issues.....its a hard fact of life. There is no rhyme or reason to it. I dont know why mine works fine......
DS

here's the reason: there's too many chefs in the kitchen of the computer industry and 90% of them want THEIR version of a "standard" to be the standard. The rest of the problem is people who think this is ok and think that it's NORMAL for computers to be the one tool that is allowed to be so unimaginably inconsistent from machine to machine (even when they are CLONES of each other, they behave differently - been there, done that). Oh and developers not caring enough to follow specifications as documented if they can do something easier for themselves, and selling things before they're fully debugged. Take mLAN. It totally, 100% takes over the Firewire bus. The bus is useless for anything else once mLan is on. This is the complete opposite intention of the very creation of firewire.

[Timo]

Originally Posted by dysamoria

here's the reason: there's too many chefs in the kitchen of the computer industry

Indeed. The number of possible configurations of all components in a system is gargantuan. And most off-the-shelf PCs are not designed with high-stress, performance music/video production in mind.

There is a way around it, and that's placing your money with people who have tested many, many configurations for music systems and have the expertise and support to back it up.

One company that jumps out a mile is http://www.adkproaudio.com (ships worldwide), the guy behind it is driven to obsession (in a good way) in creating absolute optimal configurations for music production PCs. He buys loads of new stock and torture tests everything with everything, and he sure as hell knows his stuff.

Another UK-based company that I know of is http://www.paqt.co.uk

I reckon if you really want to buy a hassle-free PC it would be worth paying that little bit extra for these kind of services, by people who have tested multiple configurations to come up with ones that work optimally. Ones that allow the system and busses to run unhindered.

and 90% of them want THEIR version of a "standard" to be the standard.

That's the same with Dell, etc.. They're just mass, generic PCs, which are only good for office, gaming, and one other thing. The equivalent of a chicken factory production-line.

[LivePsy]

Having set up many hundreds of computers in my time, I can state for a fact that you can take 4 or 6 computers out of the box and set them up simultaneously side-by-side. They do not behave the same, they ask for different updates and in different orders. Some stumble over simple setups, some are fine. They are NOT all the same even though they all started with the same disk image. I'm just talking about Windows, Office and Acrobat. I have done this experiment many times and its now boring to see 1 out of 6 misbehave with the identical installs.

If you are confident you know what a computer is going to do, then you haven't had enough knocks yet

B