On Jul 25, 2004, at 10:43 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
From: Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just out of interest: What is keeping you in OS9?
time, mostly, for dealing with the switchover, learning where things have been moved, how the OS structure has changed, etc. also, i won't upgrade the system without doing massive backups, which involves transferring important files and prefs etc. to several zip discs (i don't have a burner or an external HD).
jef
It's a fact of life that if one is going to use a computer in his/her work, he/she is going to have to occasionally shell out the bucks to upgrade both the hardware and the software. I fought this notion for a number of years, resenting the fact that we users seem to be caught in a spending loop that never seems to end. But I finally saw the writing on the wall. There's no fighting it.
When I read an excuse for not upgrading, such as the above post, it just doesn't hold water. Who in this day and age doesn't have a disk burner? Or a firewire drive? These things are cheap these days. And what's the big deal about switching to OSX? Like you, I was reluctant to make the big switch, but after MOTU released Digital Performer for OSX, and Coda released Finale 2004, I finally took the plunge, and I'm never goin' back. Please don't be scared off by all the posts about bugs in Finale 2004. I use it every day, and it has never crashed once, and I've experienced none of the bugs people are complaining about. I don't use auto-save, BTW, so maybe that's why. I do get occasional crashes in OSX, but never in Finale, or Digital Performer, for that matter.
If you're new music notation specialists, why are you trying to use antiquated computer hardware and an antiquated operating system to do your work? I say get with the program and get back to work. That's what I did, albeit kicking and screaming at first.
No offense, just my 2 cents ******************************************** Lon Price, Los Angeles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://hometown.aol.com/txstnr/>
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