This is a subjective assessment about a subjective assessment! I think that there are a couple of items in Apple's favor: 1. Over the years Apple was the market king in the audio-visual industry which meant they were engineering their products to perform well in that segment. Our SDR machines are primarily audio workstations so it would imply that Apple knows how to engineer a workstation to meet that industry's needs. 2. Apple invented Firewire so its natural to assume they know how to engineer one of their own inventions into their computers.
73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal LLC On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:49 PM, David McClain <d...@refined-audiometrics.com>wrote: > ... why better than a PC? I think it is because the hardware is reliable, > and stock. I installed OS from M$ purchased over internet. No bloatware and > 3rd party fancy audio drivers, etc. No garbage to wade through and *try* to > remove from your system. Very easy installation, and Flex radios came right > up. I haven't tried installing the latest PowerSDR yet, since I've seen so > many driver issues popping up in user reports. I'll wait till the storm > passes. > > My Mini has 4 GB of RAM. Mini about 2 years old now. Firewire is > consistent and rarely shows problems with deferred interrupts, unlike my > Dell laptops. > > Latest versions of Minis might not even have Firewire, using Thunderbolt > or whatever they call it. But a cable inline adapter makes these work on > Firewire devices just fine. Using them (inline Firewire adapters) on an > outboard MOTU 828mk3 and an external Glyph hard drive in the studio here > just fine. > > - de Dave, N7AIG > On Jun 9, 2013, at 10:35 AM, David McClain <d...@refined-audiometrics.com> > wrote: > > > Works better than a PC -- run MacMini with Bootcamp / Win7. I'm using > 64-bit OS, but 32-bit would probably work just as well. Flex-3000 and > Flex-1500. > > > > - de Dave, N7AIG > > > > Dr. David McClain > > CTO & Co-Founder > > Acudora, Inc. > > e-mail: da...@acudora.com > > Tel: (+1) 520-529-2437 > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > > On Jun 9, 2013, at 8:50, "Andrew O'Brien" <k3uka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Anyone using a Flex 3000 on an Imac mini with PowerSDR ? Just > wondering if > >> an Imac mini will run Windows applications, and if so, what the Firewire > >> performance is like ? > >> > >> Andy K3UK > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Flexedge mailing list > >> Flexedge@flex-radio.biz > >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz > >> This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is > used for posting topics related to SDR software innovation and other > technical SDR topics. > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flexedge mailing list > > Flexedge@flex-radio.biz > > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz > > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is > used for posting topics related to SDR software innovation and other > technical SDR topics. > > > > Dr. David McClain > d...@refined-audiometrics.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flexedge mailing list > Flexedge@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is > used for posting topics related to SDR software innovation and other > technical SDR topics. > _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list Flexedge@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software innovation and other technical SDR topics.
