On 25.11.2005 Simon Troup wrote:
So stay on Mac if you like it, everyone else will, I don't think this catastrophic vision of yours will ever happen.
Well, a not very unlikely scenario is this: Finale will take a long time to be ported to IntelMacs. That in itself may not be that bad (we waited for ages for the OSX version, too), but, Robert Patterson has already said that he may not port his plugins. In my case that would cripple Finale so much that it actually becomes unusable for me (and that in itself would be catastrophic enough). Ergo, I can decide to buy an overpriced Apple Branded Intel machine and run FinWin on it (after buying Virtual PC, I am pretty sure that will be the only way of using Windows on them), or spend half the money on a Windows Intel machine, spend the rest of the money on getting software replacements where necessary.
That, and the lack of proper Audio editing software for my needs on the Apple platform may well be enough of a reason to switch and say good-bye to Apple.
(BTW, I sort of doubt that the kind of Audio software I am talking about will run happily on a MacIntel machine with dual boot or Virtual PC. In fact I have my doubts as far as Finale is concerned, too. As far as I can tell Apple has to do very little to completely destroy subsystem support for Windows apps on their Intel machines. We may be able to run Word or the like quite happily, but when it gets to Audio and MIDI support I am not so sure.
Does FinWin run happily under Virtual PC now, including GPO support, MIDI etc?
Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
