On 2/3/2014 7:15 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
"F.O.A.D." wrote:

Apple offers incremental improvements to its OS, not do-overs, and its
price is right. Mavericks, the latest, costs $0.00. I was going to put
Win 7 on my Macbook Air, but for $100+, I simply decided not to waste the money.


True, Mavericks was a free upgrade but not without some disappointments.
It will not run some popular programs that previous versions of the Apple OSX ran.

An example is Pro-Tools 9. I had a brand new, unopened box with
Pro-Tools that I was looking forward to installing in the iMac once I
became familiar with it. Pro-Tools is a professional grade audio
recording software package.

Pro-Tools isn't cheap. The current version is $699. I decided to install
my copy only to find out that Mavericks (which I upgraded to a month ago)
won't run it. My options are to revert back to the older, 10.8.5 OSX
(whatever they called it) or go out and purchase the newer version.

I'll stick with the full Garage Band for now.

That all said though, I like the iMac. Nice display and is faster for
some of the things I like to do with audio and video. For many purposes
though I still think it's an overgrown, high priced iPhone. :-)

There isn't one windoze app I used to use that I haven't found a better
replacement for on my macs. Even the Mac version of ms office suite runs
better. The photo apps are better. The big database manager I use is
better. I am sure there are better windoze apps out there but I don't use
them.


I don't use the iMac for anything other than recording and mixing stuff.
Still learning the techniques. I was looking forward to learning
Pro-Tools but for $699 for the latest version that will run on
Mavericks, I can wait.

Actually, the full blown version of Garage Band is very good. The
version that comes in a Mac is a scaled down version. For a one time
charge of $4.99 you can upgrade to the full version that is very
extensive and powerful. It will probably do me fine for the level I'll
ever get to.

I also started fooling around with the video editing and "Movie Maker"
program that is in the iMac. It's much better than Microsoft's current
"Movie Maker" with many more features and editing capabilities. Just
started fooling around with that.