On 2/10/2014 5:35 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 2/10/14, 2:31 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 01:08:02 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:58:43 -0500, wrote:
For $200 it comes with a fairly fast processor and Win 7 professional.
I suspect it will sell out quickly at that price.
I bet off lease W7 machines will be more like $125 -150 soon and Tiger
is not usually even the best place to look.
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Win7 Pro by itself is worth $80 or more.
That is not a retail version it is the OEM so it is really not worth
that much.
They usually call that "logo only" (has a valid 25 digit code sticker)
You are probably going to have to reload it.
Since there were originally sold as "enterprise" machines, they don't
come with the disks a retail customer gets.
You may have to buy the disk (~$10). I bought one for my first off
lease HP XP machine.
It is good because it comes with all the HP drivers.
A few years ago, I saw some allegedly new, legit XP CDs at a computer
swap meeting. They were $5 to $10. Wouldn't Win 7 be available at the
same sales outlets soon at similar prices? I don't keep up with the
Windoze OS anymore, but I was going to install Win 7 on my Mac until I
saw the OS was fetching $100+ from mail order dealers. If I happen to
notice a swap meet in the area, I might stop by and pay up to $10 for a
64-bit Win 7 CD/DVD.
I realize my application is somewhat in the minority but I am beginning
to wish I had *not* installed Mavericks in my iMac. I am having all
kinds of problems making a midi controller work properly for recording
purposes. The midi "events" simply instruct the program used to play
certain instruments, what note, velocity, etc. I am having problems
with the system "hanging", missing event inputs and generally operating
in an unstable way.
I thought it was me. After a month of trying to make it work properly
I have discovered that their are many, many other long term Mac users
who are experiencing the same problems, most of whom used previous
versions of the Mac OSX with no problems at all. I've scoured the
Apple Support forums and, to date, no one has found the "secret" to
making Mavericks work with midi in the same, reliable manner that
Mountain Lion and previous versions worked.
My friend (the recording engineer) has none of these problems with
Mountain Lion and is using basically the same type of equipment I have.
He was about to upgrade to Mavericks but I suggested to him that he may
want to hold off for a while.
I tried temporarily hooking everything up to my Win 7 computer. Works
fine.
I wonder if I can remove Mavericks and re-install Mountain Lion.