> Hail Logicians. > Forgive me, just got off a very long plane flight, but.... > HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! (Very hysterical laughing). > This is the funniest news I've heard all year! > Really sorry for all you Windows users though. > Best wishes to all, even if a lot of you will be leaving us soon I am stunned - this sucks - I have a story to tell, then I saw this post whilst looking through. I recently switched from mac to pc for several reasons, cheaper hardware, not having to spend 300 quid on an 18 month out of date built in 8x cd-writer which I can't leave off the machine Not being able to buy half the software that I'd like such as acid/soundforge - great apps if you'd get off you high horses and try them, and most of all - I started working in web design where a colleague of mine is a logic/pc user, I used to think like the guy above - till I saw my colleague's hand built pc running windows XP wiping the floor with my MOTU equipped mac on plugins and system performance. I decided that I did'nt want to spend 5k to buy in mac what I could get for 2k on a pc, and I was THE diehard macist, till I realised that actually I am a musician and the only thing that concerns me is the creation of music, to which end I'd rather spend the money on plugins or rackmounts or mics etc. I don't give a rats what badge the computer wears - music is about self expression, if the guy who wrote that above only has sneering contempt to sell, then I don't expect he'll be selling many albums, regardless of what machine he's using. Responses like that remind me that 2 months ago I would have made the same arrogant, laughable reply, and I'm glad that I chose not to be that type of individual. More importantly - and another reason I moved - I have had endless trouble with macs, incompatibilities, crashing, and I run a clean system believe me, my last mac was dead on arrival and I had to deal with the awfull mac technical support to sort it, let's hope that emagic's up to now good technical support dosen't suffer from being annexed by apple too! Let's hope mac supports all current industry standards like VST and ASIO, rather than taking you all down the very expensive apple proprietary route. The point is that you no longer have a choice - with apple/emagic combined, apple can dictate to you what the future of the music hardware business is, they've ditched floppies, they've ditched crt monitors, what might they ditch from pro-audio to suit themselves My point is that a monopoly is never a good thing in my opinion, and at the end of the day all these companies are only intersted in one thing - profit, and we provide it, this will probably result in a shedload more fragmented standards for the audio industry - even as a die hard mac user I would not have liked this development! Not to mention logic control, which fortunately I had not got around to buying - I may yet switch back to mac but not for the mac - only for Logic, but not until I see what apple do with it, and during my last conversation with emagic technical they told me they were having problems getting it to work on OSX cos of all the background services - remind you of any other operating system? At the end of the day - pc or mac user - we have to wait and see what becomes of logic before laughing about it, if apple naff it up - and let's face it they're good at that too - it may be all of our loss and the gentleman quoted above may be not have so much to laugh about!