OT Anyone working with a MAC?

[Yoyodyne]

I sympathise with your frustration – computers are pesky critters – but those macs are using the same harddrives your having trouble with now…

Computer hardware seems to be more a matter of luck than anything else sometimes – I have had drives from WD & IBM (curse you deskstar!!!!!)go bad and I know mac folks that have had drives go bad.

I live by the rule “all hard drives will fail at some point” and back up accordingly. As for the mobo – that sucks but Abit and Soyo have always been a bit dodgy for me. I’d stick with Intel, Supermicro, Asus or Gigabyte – Intel boards have been the most trouble free for me.

Good luck and hope this helps

[Timothy Duncan]

Whichever platform you work on — you’ll face very similar problems. I’ve had just as many crashes and quirks on Windows based systems and Mac OSX based. I’ve seen lemons on both sides, and I’ve also seen rock solid systems of both types.

Keep in mind — they are ALL computers made up of parts that can and do fail from time to time.

Sounds to me like you should look at getting a decent system instead of trying to do it yourself. Buy a Dell or other from a reputable dealer who will back up their wares.

td

[Wobblyboy]

I have three computers and have not had a hard drive go out in over 4 years. I guess it’s just the luck of the draw. I usually just have two hard drives and back up important files on the second hard drive.

[Charles Avanti]

Sorry to hear about your cpu problems. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Perhaps building your own to save a few $$ is the problem?

Charlie

[Allen Zagel]

Hi
Yes, you’re all correct and thanks for the shoulder to cry on. Funny, ran Ontrack recovery got everything back and onto another HD. Closed Ontrack and wala, the DV drive is back! ha ha

I think it’s the Abit MoBo. New MoB’s a lot cheaper than MAC OS-X,. I’ll hang onto it for a while.

Oh, I hear MAC uses scuzzy HD’s and that’s why they’re faster?

Thanks again all. I really didn’t want to give up my VEGAS!
Allen

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[Charles Avanti]

One other thing I thought of after posting: How many people build their own Mac’s?

Charlie

[Allen Zagel]

Well today I broke down and bought an HP computer. Seems good for the video work. HP a844n. P4 630 (P) HT 3.0 gHz with 1GB Ram. Intel 915GV chip. Came with the new 16x DVD +/- R/RW with DL LightScribe drive. This drive also writes to the new double sided disks. 250GB SATA HD plus I got 2 extra 200 GB SATA drives. 6 USB-2 connections adn 2 Firewire, 1 in front and 1 in back. Nice front panel so I don’t have to crawl in back to change from my Sony GV D1000 to my Canopus ADVC100 boxes. Right in front now. Plus it is an upgrade from my older 2.3 gHz chip.

I kinda wanted that MAC but in thinking about the fact that I’d have to purchase all new software, and much of my current software is not available for MAC, I decided to stay with a PC. Got a 3 yr warrantee.

My bad HD in the old machine generated 2 error codes on WD’s diag. I’m caling Abit in the morning about their bad MoBo. They should replace it and if they do maybe I’ll just upgrade my smaller networked internet machine. Or put it in the old editing machine and try to sell it all.

Oh well, guess you’re all stuck with me here! ha ha. I didn’t want to lose my VEGAS anyway.

Have a nice day.

Allen

My web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
https://www.azagel.com

Video site;
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