Posted by doc on 05/20/06 03:31

our experience exactly! and support was like calling the telephone operator
and asking for help. we even granted them access to our machine and they
installed some kind of software and told us to reboot the machine (three
different times) and then finally said they seen the problem and told us to
take it to an authorized repair station, which we did, then they wouldn't
warrnaty it because they said we should have taken it to an authorized
warranty station, not just an authorized repair station. talk about
legalism? that was it for use, let alone all the crashes on FCP. thus, we
got enough money out of some sucker in arizona to get a gateway dual core,
avid express pro, and avid liquid. WOW! what an unbeleivably simple and
unchallenging move. wished we'd never heard of Apple or Macintosh or Final
Cut Pro!

drd

"nappy" <gospam@yourself.com> wrote in message
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> "Mr. Tapeguy" <mr.tapeguy@pro-tape.com> wrote in message
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>> nappy wrote:
>>> "Specs" <No.Spam@Thanks.com> wrote in message
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>>> >>
>>> > For chrissake don't tell anyone my 17" Macbook Pro has arrived with
>>> > FCP
>>> > Studio. Motion and DVD Studio kick ass (that's why I bought it). I
>>> > can
>>> > hardly believe OS X is related to that pile of shit that I used at
>>> > version
>>> > 1. Utter bollox that was. Now it feels like an operating system.
>>> >
>>> > Like I said, keep it quiet...ssshhh.....Don't tell Nappy.....OK???\
>>>
>>>
>>> Specs is an honest person. He has no reason to post this if it weren't
>>> true.
>>> I am glad that OSX may have matured beyond the nightmare that I
>>> experienced.
>>> I am generally in agreement with Specs on most things.. I still have a
>>> dual
>>> 1G quicksilver around here somewhere with FCP and an AJA IO. If he keeps
>>> this up I may have to plug it in and bring everythign up to date. It is
>>> hard
>>> to beat Premiere, Combustion and 3DSMax though.
>>
>> I think Tiger has some nifty features but overall, the OS has been very
>> stable since at least Panther. I did not really use OS X until Panther
>> so whatever issues Jaguar had I'm not really familiar with.
>
> Jaguar was the straw that broke the camel's back here for us. Hence my
> take
> on this Apple crap.
>
>>
>> Your Quicksilver is probably a little underpowered for FCS now so if
>> you're serious about checking out what things are like today it might
>> be time to upgrade. And as long as I'm trying to SELL you something I
>> might as well make you a good deal! ROFLMAO
>
> I would hardly consider a move to Apple an upgrade. Don't get too anxious
> here..
> There is no way in hell I would ever actually BUY another Apple. If a dual
> 1GHz mac is not powerful enough to edit (ie.. it had a damn hard time
> doing
> the job a single 1Ghz PC did flawlessly) then my Dual Xeon machines will
> work just dandy.. as they do now.
>
> Hell, one job I had which FCP crapped out on was finished on a VAIO
> laptop.
>
> In fact, I trust that Specs will come back with his take on this stuff
> after a while. I am interested in that.
>
>
>
>
>>
>> I hear very good things about the newest Adobe stuff. I skipped NAB
>> this year so I haven't seen it live but I will be studying up.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> http://www.pro-tape.com
>>
>> Adobe - Apple - Avid - Canon - Digidesign - Fuji - Quantegy - Panasonic
>> - Primera - Sony
>>
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